A little-known fact about me is that, on nights of the full moon, I turn into a dodo. …That’s right: I’m a weredodo.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
True or false?
Vol au vent is French for water vole’s anus.
Weird insect
Spotted this weird insect in our kitchen this morning. What the heck is going on?
CLINT
Did a double-take in Sainsbury’s earlier in the week: …it made my day.
No glow
BBC: Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre on Maxwell arrestA US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has said he “should be panicking” following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell. Panicking, maybe, but certainly not sweating.
‘Why doesn’t universal translator work on Klingon?’
The @RikerGoogling Twitter account lists the Google search terms being used by StarTrek: the Next Generation’s Commander William T. ‘Number One’ Riker… Worth ten minutes of any trekkie’s time.
Book review: ‘A Carnival of Losses’ by Donald Hall
Notes nearing ninety.
Book review: ‘Spike Island’ by Philip Hoare
The memory of a military hospital.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James
Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
Book review: ‘Into the Tangled Bank’ by Lev Parikian
In which our author ventures outdoors to consider the British in nature.