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Posted on 01-Jan-201718-Feb-2017

2016: a year in photos

2016 in a nutshell

My sixth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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Posted on 01-Jan-201631-Dec-2016

2015: a year in photos

Reading in the Guggenheim gallery, Venice

My fifth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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Posted on 02-Jan-201531-Dec-2016

2014: a year in photos

View from Humphrey Head

My fourth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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Posted on 31-Dec-201331-Dec-2016

2013: a year in photos

Buttercups!

My third annual video slideshow review of the year.

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RECENT ARTICLES

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  • Orion’s belt-buckle
    In celebration of my adopted star.
  • ‘Spiritual’ won’t do
    In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
  • Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition
    Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.
  • The Welsh side
    In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.

RECENT REVIEWS

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  • Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
    18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
  • Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
    15,000 years of urban life and death.
  • Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
    Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
  • Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
    Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.

RECENT NOTEBOOK ENTRIES

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  • Going physical
    In which I get out there in meat-space.
  • One day my prints did come!
    In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
  • Year of Getting Stuff Out There
    2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.
  • Using Scrivener as an Articles Register
    How I use the Scrivener writing app to gather and organise a mass of vague ideas for future articles.

RECENT NEWSLETTERS

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  • Newsletter No. 6: A borrowed dog
    woodpeckers · ambrotype portraits · W.G. Sebald · a deserted hamlet · mission creep · prime meridians · W.H. Hudson · podcasts · street photography · bonkers · tapirs · coiners
  • Newsletter No. 5: Incongruous owl
    dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert […]
  • Newsletter No. 4: Paint to pufferfish
    Robert Macfarlane · Hilary Mantel · Martha Sprackland · Viking wool · Charles Darwin's reading habits · human evolution · praying to Elrond · drawing · making ink · Rebecca Solnit · insectivorous plants · do pufferfish hold their breath?
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