Le livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard.
On my recent trip to Montmorillon I picked up for six euro a paperback Le Livre d’or de la science fiction: J G Ballard: As French Wikipedia puts it “Le Livre d’or…
Bird feeding notes, end of August
In recent weeks bird activity around feeders has definitively picked up. Like the return to school, this is a harbinger of autumn and behind that, winter. Certainly feeding birds in a deliberate,…
“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..…
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…
Nabokov and Epilepsy – my letter to the TLS
I have a Letter to the Editor in the current TLS responding to Galya Diment’s piece on Vladimir Nabokov and epilepsy. The letter is behind a paywall but you can see the much…
Séamus Sweeney 