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Posted on September 24, 2017September 24, 2017

“it is very difficult not to anthropomorphise puffins” – Peter Reason on Puffins

I have been posting some thoughts inspired by Peter Reason’s book In Search of Grace. I am trying not to let this blog turn into nothing but a series of…

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Posted on November 27, 2016November 27, 2016

The antithesis of anthropomorphism: Tarka the Otter

I have written here before on anthropomorphism, following John Lewis-Stempel’s musings as to whether it is such a dread conceptual offence as it often stated. Recently I read Henry Williamson’s “Tarka…

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Posted on July 16, 2016

Three a girl … – the return of magpies

I have blogged here and here about the relative lack of magpies in my garden. As is probably obvious, I have recently been in Donegal and in the last week was away again. So my focus…

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Posted on June 12, 2016June 12, 2016

An eerie silence in the garden.

Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…

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Posted on March 24, 2016July 2, 2017

John Lewis-Stempel on anthropomorphism. From “Meadowland: The Private Life of An English Field”

While I have some misgivings about the “lab coated lobby” part (I suspect that the sneering phenomenon Lewis-Stempel describes doesn’t so much emanate from “science Puritans” as simple cynicism, perhaps…

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