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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Her Royal Highlights

Me: Do you reckon the Queen’s cutting her own hair at the moment? Jen: I thought she always did.

Published 23-Apr-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, coronavirus, royalty
‘In Pursuit of Spring’ by Edward Thomas

Book review: ‘In Pursuit of Spring’ by Edward Thomas

Cycling across southern England in early 1913.

Published 20-Apr-2020
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Travel Tags: reviews

What Twitter is for…

Japery, basically.

Published 15-Apr-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: tim dee, twitter
‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall

Book review: ‘Essays After Eighty’ by Donald Hall

A brilliant collection of mostly humorous essays from the late American poet.

Published 14-Apr-2020
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: reviews
‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris

Book review: ‘Thinking Again’ by Jan Morris

A second volume of gentle diary-entries-cum-essays.

Published 13-Apr-2020
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: jan morris, reviews
‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee

Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee

Journeys in Springtime.

Published 13-Apr-2020
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Nature Writing, Travel Tags: reviews, tim dee

Bill is no longer Withers

BBC: 'Ain't No Sunshine' singer Bill Withers dies at 81

Published 03-Apr-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: rip

Good deed

Just got a bag of food for the mother-in-law…

Published 31-Mar-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: coronavirus, jokes

Listen to Thommo, everyone!

Published 25-Mar-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: coronavirus, music, videos

Well, he certainly picked a fine time to leave us!

BBC: Kenny Rogers: Country music legend dies aged 81

Published 21-Mar-2020
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: music, rip

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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