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reminiscences

Grandma’s organ donation

Silent Night

On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.

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Orion’s belt-buckle

Orion

In celebration of my adopted star.

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Keswick Woods

River Dibbin

In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.

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Bacon and X

Francis Bacon

Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn't get C-minuses—and he certainly didn't get SEE MEs.

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Life's too short for pristine notebooks

Moleskine notebooks

How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.

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The seahorse and the pelican

Thierleben frontispiece

How a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.

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136 snail shells & a pint of shorts

Kebister dig

As life events go, Shetland 1985 turned out to be right up there.

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Evacuee kids

A wartime diary entry mentioning a couple of lads of my acquaintance.

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Recent Articles

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  • 2018: a year in photos
    My eighth annual video slideshow.
  • A face for radio
    In which I am interviewed for a ‘radio’ documentary.
  • 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. 15: Semi-immersed
    writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison
  • Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors
    Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!

Recent Reviews

RSS Recent Reviews

  • Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson
    The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
  • Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
    Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
  • Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
    A celebration of gulls.
  • Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
    Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
  • Book review: ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
    A year in the life of a Scottish bookseller.
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