…are apparently in order to Prime Minister Boris ‘Bus-Liar’ Johnson on the occasion of the birth of his sixth or seventh child.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Over our garden wall this evening
Video of a barn owl.
Technically legit
I’m seriously thinking of taking a couple of weeks’ holiday here. Technically, I won’t be breaking any rules:
Her Royal Highlights
Me: Do you reckon the Queen’s cutting her own hair at the moment? Jen: I thought she always did.
Book review: ‘In Pursuit of Spring’ by Edward Thomas
Cycling across southern England in early 1913.
What Twitter is for…
Japery, basically.
Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall
A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.
Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris
A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.
Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee
Journeys in Springtime.
Bill is no longer Withers
BBC: 'Ain't No Sunshine' singer Bill Withers dies at 81