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Goats in Llandudno
When the humans stay indoors, the goats are emboldened: My favourite (photo 15 (and their favourite because they also put it at the top)) of these lockdown photos. See also, a raccoon in Central Park...
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Food and drink on wheels
Along the South Bank late yesterday afternoon. I photoed, among other things, food and drink emporia, mostly of the motorised or at least transportable sort: My favourite by some distance is the one...
View ArticleTrump did this good thing, but …
Ronald Forbes, for The Conservative Woman: WHY is it that almost every conservative defence of Donald Trump begins by disowning him personally like a distasteful object held at arm’s length? Sure, they...
View ArticleThe rise of global political parties?
I see that Brazil’s President Bolsonoro has been having a go at what Joe Biden said in the US Presidential debate, about Brazil and its rain forests and what he, Joe Biden, was going to do about them....
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Colourful mural in Chelyabinsk
I get regular emails about new architecture, and trust me, there’s less of it happening now. And what there is now being done is mostly generic machines-for-living-in and machines-for-working-in. The...
View ArticleHow construction work suits the archaeologists
They’ve just given the go-ahead for the tunnel “under” Stonehenge that they’ve been arguing about for the last few decades. My ignorant and uninvolved take is that “under” is in inverted commas,...
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I am now about to test my Bjorn Lomborg prejudices
I recently got lent a copy of this book by Bjorn Lomborg: But before getting stuck into it, I wanted to describe my prejudice concerning Bjorn Lomborg, based on such things as reading short articles by...
View ArticleLomborg on climate catastrophe
It became clear from the very first paragraphs of False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg that I was going to have to start revising my prejudices about its author. If, later in this book, Lomborg ever tries to...
View ArticleAnother carnival of the animals posting
Starting with a new recording of Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns at his harmonious and melodious best. It’s the Kanneh-Mason clan, with additions. Sheku, as of now the most celebrated of this much...
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Sniffer dogs and beavers – both doing well
Friday, so: animals. Obviously, I noticed this story about dogs with the superpower ability to smell prostate cancer in a blood sample a lot sooner than prostate cancer tends to be noticed now....
View ArticleSteve Stewart-Williams on the evolution of the Breton fishing boat
I finished reading The Ape That Understood The Universe about a week ago now, but there is one further bit from this book that I want to scan into this blog, because I think it is my absolute...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
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Modernism plus vegetation
Now that I am reduced to scrabbling through my archives for photos to show here, Cousin David is helping to fill the gap. Recently he sent in some photos of cranes and new construction, in the City of...
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