Category Archives: Blather

I’m waiting to hear back from various agents, publishers, prospective victims and so on. This requires an effort to get on with the next thing — instead I read blogs, and on Fred Clark’s came across a perfect quote from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To Lambeth palace, for the Archbishop’s lecture on press ethics: mine being judged in need of improvement.1 This was followed by the sort of party when I find myself talking to someone who clearly knows who I am, and to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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That the first blackbird starts singing at ten to four in the morning now. Who says insomnia can’t be fun? Continue reading →

As an apology living near a ridiculously small river, I feel I owe Rafe the answers to this test. Total number of books I’ve owned: shamingly small. Something around 5,000 at a guess, since I have never been able to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I excuse myself by saying dyslexic about faces; and people think I am joking. But I am not. I find it enormously difficult to reconstruct faces in my imagination, or even to recognise them on those who are present; when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Few postings for the next week; I shall be in Boston and similar places, profiling Robert Trivers. In the meantime, here’s a dove from yesterday evening, and a style sheet to go with it. Continue reading →

I don’t know if this link will work from outside Flickr, but it leads to the filthiest vegetable picture I have ever seen. Louise will love it. Continue reading →

Some wonderful properties have been discovered in the eye of a small and poisonous jellyfish, and you want the straight version, PZ Myers has it. But what struck me first was a description of the jellyfish from the lead researcher, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From page 247 of Biggles in the South Seas comes an unforgettable image … Those of you reading this on an aggregator are just going to have to guess. Continue reading →