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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson

Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson

The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.

Published 31-Jan-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Science Tags: birds, reviews
‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva

Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva

Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.

Published 31-Jan-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
’Landfill’ by Tim Dee

Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee

A celebration of gulls.

Published 31-Jan-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing Tags: birds, reviews

A question which has been occupying my mind of late…

What is an ‘occasional table’ being when it isn’t actually, you know, being a table?

Published 27-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: language

Compare and contrast

Pharmaceutical mayhem.

Published 18-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: brexit, compare and contrast, the fall, videos

Prophetic words

Cameron on the mark!

Published 16-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: brexit, politics

Nanny states

Citizens advised not to be stupid.

Published 12-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: idiots

Carolyn is confused

In which Carolyn and I fail to communicate.

Published 02-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense

2018 in a nutshell

My eighth annual video slideshow of the year.

Published 01-Jan-2019
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ambient pap, slideshows, videos, yearly nutshells
The Diary of a Bookseller

Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell

A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.

Published 31-Dec-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir Tags: reviews

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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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    I remember H E Todd visiting our school in Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk in 1973 or 1974. It was a real…

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