Writing

Ensemble 10/10 programme

One of my photos has been used on the front of the 2013–2014 season concert programme for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ensemble 10/10
What’s so weird about beards?

Like all beardies, I don’t have a beard through choice. It just grew on the front of my face.
In search of the delicate flapwort—and why we need tricorders

On an expedition I made in search for a rare plant, and the need for DNA-assisted species identification devices.
New Facebook page

I have launched a Facebook page.
Exploring my damp patch

For many years, I’ve sought in vain for a particular wild flower on my local patch—a plant that inspired Charles Darwin to write an entire book on insectivorous plants.
Finding stuff out

We only have a few precious years on this wonderful planet, so why not find out what you can about it while you still have the chance?
The iniquity of oblivion

In the fudge-box-pretty village of Burton on my native Wirral Peninsula lie two graves, their inscriptions now utterly lost.
Finding new ways

How plants can end up in the strangest of places.
Change for a tenner?

My considered, and totally unbiased thoughts on who should replace Darwin on the £10 note.
The Thomas Browne Affair

On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.
A Spring-time Saunter

In which I am loaned a classic local book.
A Secular Thought for the Day

Let’s drop the ‘Anno Domini’.