Writing
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Fountain pen mod
Plastic fountain pen versus power-tool: what could possibly go wrong?
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Book review: ‘Inventing the Enemy’ by Umberto Eco
Essays on everything.
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Book Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion
A remarkable account of a year spent grieving.
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Book Review: ‘The Savage Landscape’ by Cal Flyn
How we made the wilderness.
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Streak!
I’m damned if I’m going to have some stupid app make me fret about missing a day and going all the way back to zero!
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Heavenly conjunction
Images of the moon, past and present.
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Book Review: ‘The White Album’ by Joan Didion
New Journalism from the late-1960s and early 1970s.
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Book Review: ‘Dead and Alive’ by Zadie Smith
A fantastic essay collection.
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Book Review: ‘The Given World’ by Melissa Harrison
Things go out of kilter in the Welm Valley.
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Book Review: ‘Vertigo’ by Harald Jähner
The rise and fall of Weimar Germany, 1918–1933.
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On the Rocks, April 2026
Some unexpected thrills sitting on what remains of my favourite Anglesey rock.
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Lichen timelapse
A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.