Today marks the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere. Equinox (n.): The festival of the equine-ox. The day on which the local village idiot toured their domain astride an ox.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Tweet in my sobriety
Retweeted by Tanita Tikaram… My work on Twitter is complete.
Book review: ‘The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction’ by Sally Cline & Midge Gillies
Writing about Travel, Nature, Food, Feminism, History, Science, Death, Friendship and Sexuality.
Book review: ‘Ghost Town’ by Jeff Young
A Liverpool shadowplay.
Book review: ‘Something of His Art’ by Horatio Clare
Walking to Lübeck with J.S. Bach.
Excavation
Dad finds his penknife.
Book review: ‘Kilvert’s Diary’ by Francis Kilvert
The diary of a Victorian country curate.
It’s the dawn of a new era!
Floods, a pandemic, and now a comet. It’s like being back in the Middle Ages.
Gnu Romantics
Homo raphus
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.