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A Secular Thought for the Day

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Let's drop the ‘Anno Domini’.

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Recent Articles

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  • 2019: a year in photos
    My ninth annual video slideshow.
  • 2018: a year in photos
    My eighth annual video slideshow.
  • Where has all the heather gone?
    The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
  • The Rough Patch
    On the advantages of being a crap gardener.

Recent Newsletters

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  • Newsletter No. 19: Comfort Reading
    Melissa Harrison · Tim Dee · Horatio Clare · John Mitchinson · Ronald Blythe · Mary Beard · Benjamin Myers · Zack Arias · Eric Newby · greenland sharks · Maunsell forts · England rugby · Charles Darwin (obviously)
  • Newsletter No. 18: 169 in giraffe-years
    Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River
  • Newsletter No. 17: Scoffing all the berries
    Island Review · Julian Hoffman · John Green · Dorothea Lange · Jonathan Meades · Rebecca Solnit · Willowherb Review · Robert Macfarlane · Dave Winer · Horatio Clare · Mark Cocker · Steve Rutt
  • Newsletter No. 16: Snippets of nature writing
    sidelines · Robert Macfarlane · Julian Hoffman · Amy Liptrot · Little Toller · Sir Thomas Browne · Tim Dee · Adam Nicolson · Julia Blackburn

Recent Sidelines

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  • 28 May 2020
    More International Space Station photography.
  • 27 May 2020
    Photographing the International Space Station.
  • 25 May 2020
    The new moon, Mercury and Venus setting over Heptonstall.
  • 23 May 2020
    Long-tailed tits gathering insects.

Recent Reviews

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  • Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
    A celebration of gulls.
  • The ‘Wormingford’ series by Ronald Blythe
    A magnificent ten-volume series of weekly diary-entries-cum-essays.
  • Book review: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
    Definitely not a writing guide.
  • Book review: ‘Greenery’ by Tim Dee
    Journeys in Springtime.

News

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  • An embarrassment of Richards
    In which my head appears on a spike (six times).
  • Introducing Sidelines
    A new section on my website dedicated to the (mostly nature) writing I write ‘on the side’. Definitely not a diary. Definitely not a blog.
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