Sidelines

Fountain pen mod

Plastic fountain pen versus power-tool: what could possibly go wrong?
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!
Heavenly conjunction

Images of the moon, past and present.
On the Rocks, April 2026

Some unexpected thrills sitting on what remains of my favourite Anglesey rock.
Lichen timelapse

A project to take photographs of the same lichen over many years.
When rocks take a walk

In which I follow the trail of an itinerant rock!
Corresponding with Sir David Attenborough

In which the great science communicator fails to resolve an important dispute about fish.
Read-later triage

How I filter my read-later bookmarks into notes, posts and newsletters.
frant (v., n.)

Oystercatchers are in a permanent state of frant.
St Patrick’s Day

On St Patrick’s connection with North Wales, and the debunking of a famous biogeographical myth.
Literary conventions

Photographers are not unsuccessful painters, and factual writers are not wannabe novelists.
The real Wuthering Heights

In which I rant about the West Yorkshire Pennines’ identity crisis.