Oh, I say!
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘Darwin’ by Jonathan Howard
A very short introduction.
Moo-ser interface
BBC: Russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’ A Russian farm has given its dairy cows virtual reality headsets in a bid to reduce their anxiety. I can’t help noticing cows in VR headsets look considerably less stupid than people in VR headsets.
I know you should never reveal a lady’s age…
…but my friend Carolyn is 20,000 days old today. She seemed quite impressed I’d bothered to work it out.
Book review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith
Further quirky memoirs.
A dog vomited…
…right in front of me in Hebden Bridge Post Office this morning. That sort of nonsense had better stop, once we leave the EU.
Quiddities & Haecceities
Paul Keegan writing[£] about the poet/artist David Jones in the latest edition of the London Review of Books: The supposed pedantry or antiquarianism of Jones’s procedures, visual as well as verbal, are deceptive. He relied on anachronism, sly private reference and a conviction that accuracy was allied to distortion, just as the distortions of idiomatic… Continue reading Quiddities & Haecceities
Old habits
A woman turned to me in the dairy section at Sainsbury’s yesterday morning and remarked, “Old habits die hard.” I had absolutely no idea what she was on about, so I nodded in agreement.
There’s a blow
Just saw a businessman in the gents’ loo at Burtonwood Services try to dry his hands in the dispensing slot of a condom machine.
Normal for Batley
Yorkshire Post: Former Brexit Party candidate for Yorkshire seat says she comes from far-flung star and aliens are 'working with world Governments' A would-be MP for Batley and Spen believed aliens were “working with our world Governments” and that she came from a star called Sirius. Jill Hughes was the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the… Continue reading Normal for Batley