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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

’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
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin volume 8

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’

Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.

Published 31-Dec-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History Tags: reviews
Philip Larkin Collected Poems

Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Collected Poems’ edited by Anthony Thwaite

All of Larkin’s poems in one handy volume.

Published 31-Dec-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Poetry Tags: poetry, 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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    You should have let the woman with the fingernails sort out your pen blockage. Make HERself useful!

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