Newsletter No. 1: Kudos to youdos

Patti Smith · W.G. Sebald · Sexual Selection · Roman chicken · Robert Graves · Swallows & Amazons · Thames Estuary · James Brindley · Spoonbills

The seahorse and the pelican

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

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

Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!
bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin
Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs
Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall
Newsletter No. 11: Penguin eggs and yetis
Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology

Going camera-less
Taking walks without lugging around a massive camera bag: it’ll never catch on!
The appearance of my child
This afternoon, I received my proof copy of ‘On the Moor’.
Feedback sought: Potential covers for my book
I’ve been experimenting with some different cover designs for my book ‘On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk’, and would be interested in receiving any feedback you might have.
What I did on my holidays
An Anglesey timelapse video.