“Townies” have every right to comment on rural affairs
I have found James Common’s blog wonderful and consistently interesting and thought-provoking. I have posted what is a somewhat diffuse and rambling point as a comment on this blog post..…
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A walk in the woods, or to be more trendy “forest bathing”
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
In recent times there has been increasing media attention on the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku or “foresting bathing.” Going for a walk in a forest…
Montmorillon, Musée Robert Tatin, and the blindness of the Anglophone internet
Recently in France I visited two highly recommended tourist sites (I have no issue describing myself by the word “tourist”). One, Montmorillon, is described by English language wikipedia (more of which…
Bird feeding notes, mid August
In recent days, bird feeding has picked up again after a lull of some weeks – I noted this before but the pace has picked up . I unsure whether this…
Bird feeding notes, early August
It’s been a while since my last bird feeding note and I have noted a relative silence in the garden of late, except for a resurgence of the magpie population. There is always a…
Joseph Needham, history of technology and the Ahenny High Crosses
Living in South Tipperary, the proximity of the a plethora of high crosses naturally piques ones interest. Some are well known, such as the Ahenny Crosses, some such as that…
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree…
… because it is still rather small. Earlier this year (I think in February) I bought an Elstar tree from the garden centre. One of the pleasures of recent months…
Nabokov and epilepsy
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Currently I am reading Colin Grant’s A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy for review. As it happens, I open the TLS webpage this morning…
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