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Posted on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Review of “Kafkaesque” edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, SF Site, 2012

I previously blogged a shorter piece, adapted from this review, on Kafka and alternate history. Here is a full review of what was an enjoyable book to read, : “Kafkaesque”…

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Posted on October 9, 2016

Where are the magpies? October edition

At the end of March, I wondered, where are the magpies? In July, I noted that there were indeed magpies and helpfully I reblogged James Common’s excellent post on whether magpies do indeed “kill all…

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Posted on September 10, 2016September 10, 2016

Crow Songs: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, Rossini

Blogging about rain songs, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches, and left out many worthy numbers. For no particular reason except I like them, I decided to blog this…

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Posted on August 30, 2016

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,…

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Posted on August 7, 2016

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…

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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 May 20, 2016

Bird feeding notes late May

Not quite a month after the April update … some miscellaneous thoughts and observations   Apples definitely are out of the season for garden birds. Goldfinches have largely disappeared whereas about…

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Posted on April 23, 2016

Bird feeding notes in late April

As posted previously, I have taken an increasing interest in birds and feeding them in the garden. One of the many interesting and (in my view) edifying things about this is another…

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