Luigi nibbled the fact that back in the UK Nettle Awareness Week started on Saturday 17th May. Who knew? He pointed to a lovely post at the CABI blog, which goes into nettles in more depth than many people might desire. We lapped it up, of course, and I am minded to share a couple of my own refl...
The winter here at Monteverde Mansions has been a little anxious in at least one regard. Just after we moved in late last autumn, knowing of my passion for them, dear friends gave me a fine, sturdy little frangipani. It even had leaves. All I had to do was see it through the winter and maybe, just m...
That is a genuine screen-grab from a genuine web site of a genuinely major player. Your task, should you accept it, is to identify the player.
Of course, Google renders this utterly nugatory, so I’ll just say that the subs at National Geographic should stand up and take a massive collective bo...
I am incredibly angry. Actually, I’m resigned, but who writes because they’re resigned?
On the way to work each morning I generally take a short-cut through a modern church down the road. It's an unlovely church, but skipping through it shaves five minutes off the walk and sometimes affords amus...
The problem is not that I am speaking from a position of ignorance. I am speaking from a position of knowledge to people who don’t know what knowledge would look like. I am talking to people who are afraid that other people who also don’t know what knowledge would look like will read the book and...
