Prince Harry and Meghan Markle choose cake shock!
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Overheard at a dinner party last night…
(I don’t think it’s quite the word they meant…)
Pitch battle
How would I have pitched ‘Thor Ranarok’ to a big-time movie mogul? What’s the one thing that would make anyonewant to go and see the film?
Book review: ‘Dream Island’ by R.M. Lockley
Not particularly interesting narratives of sailing back and forth between islands and the mainland I very much enjoyed R.M. Lockley’s Letters From Skokholm. Indeed, it is one of my favourite ‘nature classics’ to be re-published by the wonderful Little Toller Press. I enjoyed Dream Island far less. Whereas Letters From Skokholm was all about bird… Continue reading Book review: ‘Dream Island’ by R.M. Lockley
Book review: ‘Signalling from Mars’ by Hugh Brogan (ed.)
The letters of Arthur Ransome Reading other people’s correspondence is one of my guilty pleasures. As a child, I loved Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons books. As an adult, I finally got to realise my childhood dream of visiting Wild Cat Island. So, when I came across a copy of Ransome’s letters in a favourite… Continue reading Book review: ‘Signalling from Mars’ by Hugh Brogan (ed.)
Book review: ‘Charles Darwin: Vol.2: The Power of Place’ by Janet Browne
Part 2 of an entertaining two-part biography of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place is part 2 of Janet Browne’s two-part Darwin biography. You can read my combined review of both volumes here.
New facts don’t emerge
Siri rebels.
Meanwhile, on Twitter…
Pope's funeral video hilarity.
Doesn’t look right
As always, ‘Boris’ Johnson is the exception that proves the rule.