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Newsletter No. 22: His glib, beardless chops
Insensitive teenager · Helen Macdonald · Patrick Barkham · Richard Mabey · Julian Hoffman · photography · Mars · Christina Riley · icebergs · bowling alleys · cassette tapes · Richard Thompson · Antikythera mechanism · and more…
Newsletter No. 21: Positively sluggish
Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…

Recent Sidelines

Sun’s all hottin’ in the rotten hot
Is it just me, or is it hot around here?
New facts emerge
On the unavoidably provisional nature of essay collections.
An arc of sorts
On the emergence of unplanned themes.
29 June 2021
A lovely new circular walk.

Recent Articles

Giving fiascos a bad name
How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin
To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

News

HebWeb interview
I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.
2020: a year in photos
My tenth annual video slideshow.

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