“The trees are coming into leaf // Like something almost being said”… …and I feel a need to quote Philip Larkin. Have been leaf watching every morning on the way to work, and now, thanks to clocks change on Sunday, even on the way home too. The wonders of evening daylight. For Fall in the …
Category archives: Reading
Enneagram and The West Wing
I was thinking the other day about the Enneagram – something that Alison and I have been reading about off and on for a while* – and wondered about the characters in the West Wing and what their types are. To my absolute amazement, there seem to be no real posts about this out in …
Pseudohistories and pseudoparodies
I’ve just had one of those “You what?” moments in reading some nonsense online. It came about from looking up something on YouTube and then happening on another link. The link was to do with a historic theory called New Chronology from a pretty wacky Russian mathematician called Anatoly Fomenko. He reckons that the dark …
Book fair a go go
So, the latest Peebles book fair again, and a happy Saturday morning was spent by me and Dan, plus my parents, browsing a huge stock of second hand books. The proceeds go to a range of charities – even though last year’s fair was partially snowed off on the Sunday, they still raised £8000 over …
Geek week
A lot of the programmes that we’ve been watching over the last year or so are not running at the moment. In the past, you might: sigh, relive the best bits with a friend, watch them again on video (if you’d recorded them), maybe go out and buy a book related to the series. (No …