Plant movement, earthworms, waxy blooms, an honorary doctorate, and much more.
Nonsense
Book review: ‘A System for Writing’ by Bob Doto
How an unconventional approach to note-making can help you capture ideas, think wildly, and write constantly—a zettelkasten primer.
Book review: ‘The Accidental Garden’ by Richard Mabey
Gardens, wilderness and the space in between.
Worst Carpool Karaoke ever!
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 23 • 1875’
Revising ‘The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants’ • Writing ‘Insectivorous Plants’ • Beginning research on ‘The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom’ • Getting involved in the vivisection debate • The death of Charles Lyell
Couldn’t agree more, Guardian ‘Saturday’ magazine
Taking the Mickey
Until this morning, I thought Steamboat Willie was some unmentionable medical condition, but I stand corrected… BBC: Disney’s earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expires
2023 in a nutshell
My thirteenth annual video slide-show of the year.
Levelling up London’s potholes
In case you were wondering where the government intends to invest all that ‘saved’ HS2 funding… Department for Transport: Government invests £235 million to upgrade and repair roads across London Allocations for London boroughs to improve capital’s roads announced • long-term investment to make roads safer and smoother using redirected funding from HS2 • according… Continue reading Levelling up London’s potholes
Prawn chow mein…
…Ridicule is nothing to be scared of!