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10 April 2021
A spot of nature waiting.
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9 April 2021
A walk along Blackstone Edge.
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8 April 2021
A walk round Withens Clough reservoir.
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6 April 2021
Buzzards and blizzards.
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Newsletter No. 22: ‘His glib, beardless chops’
Insensitive teenager • Helen Macdonald • Patrick Barkham • Richard Mabey • Julian Hoffman • photography • Mars • Christina Riley • icebergs • bowling alleys • cassette tapes • Richard Thompson • Antikythera mechanism • and more…
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31 March 2021
The first swallow of summer.
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Nerdy in the extreme
In which I am extremely excited about a powerful (and free) new app.
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30 March 2021
Spring has finally returned.
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Book review: ‘How to Take Smart Notes’ by Sönke Ahrens
One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking: for students, academics and nonfiction book writers.
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Book review: ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King
Cult author Stephen King explains how he goes about writing his punchy prose. Not being a great fan of fiction, I’ve only ever read one of King’s novels—Misery, which was excellent—but the advice he imparts applies mostly as well to any genre of writing. A large proportion of this book is memoir, rather than writing…
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‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf
Streams of consciousness in the Hebrides.
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Book review: ‘Congenial Spirits’ by Virginia Woolf
The selected letters of Virginia Woolf.