Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Wise before and after the event

So, Boris ‘bus-liar’ Johnson’s chief political strategist, Dominic Cumberbatch—or someone with access to the password for his blog, at least—has been caught retrospectively doctoring an old blog post to make himself look far more prescient than he really is. That really is a very cheap trick. But it doesn’t surprise me one iota. In fact,… Continue reading Wise before and after the event

Steady Mercury

Last night, I spotted the new crescent moon setting over Heptonstall, accompanied by Venus off to the far right. So I grabbed this photo… It was only while I was processing the photo this morning that I realised I'd also bagged Mercury (faint dot, just right of centre). Not bad for a 300mm telephoto lens… Continue reading Steady Mercury

Nazi Turdidae

One of our local blackbirds has started singing The Ride of the Valkyries: They’ll be annexing the Sudetenland next.

#StayAlert!!!

The vitally, vitally important message Boris ‘Bus-liar’ Johnson is trying to convey here is, if and when UK Covid-19 death rates begin to rise again because people were pressurised into going back to work too early, it most definitely won’t be his fault… We just didn’t play our roles and ‘#StayAlert’ enough to ‘CONTROL THE… Continue reading #StayAlert!!!