by Nicholas Bone, Sans façon and Ian Cameron The script of a play about walking. Stense bought me this book, which is the script to a play she saw. She thought I'd like it. I did, very much indeed. As I wrote to Stense, after reading the script twice, the play is clearly heavily influenced… Continue reading A Walk at the Edge of the World
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold American nature classic. It turns out that this classic of American nature writing had somehow completely eluded this nature-writing fanboy. This might well be due to my rather parochial enjoyment of the genre. Perhaps I should branch out across the Pond more often. Well done to Jen for spotting a reference to… Continue reading A Sand County Almanac
Apostrophe catastrophe
In which I am outraged by a spurious apostrophe.
Wallet o' fish
I lost my wallet in Hebden Bridge's weekly market last week. This week, the fishmonger returned it to me.
Duck tweets
Gerry Adams to release book featuring his best tweets.
LRB chortles
The latest edition of the London Review of Books contains an unprecedented number of chortles. By which, I mean two.
Procrastination is the mother of invention
I just dug out my copy of ‘Getting Things Done’ by David Allen.
Let all the children boogie
David Bowie, R.I.P.
Hoots!
In which I make stuff come out of Jen's nose.
Mane attraction
Lions have ‘partners’ now, apparently. It's political correctness gone bonkers.