This put a different spin on Lonely Goatherd for me: Old Irish goats return to County Dublin to protect hills from wildfires: Jeuken, 31, had an edge: she ran her own herd on her family farm, earning the nickname “the goat lady”. Last year she graduated as a veterinary nurse. She spent a few weeks at Mulranny getting to know the Old Irish goats, ( Read more... )

Well, this is exasperating/depressing: this article demonstrates that biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more frequently considered non-notable and nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies: On March 7, 2014, a biography for Donna Strickland, the physicist who invented a technology used by all the ( Read more... )

I sent off for free delivery vouchers some weeks ago, but when they turned up, whoever was delivering our neck of the woods was over capacity and no longer taking any more customers. But idly checking the site last week I saw that it is now possible to set up delivery (and I also have prepay vouchers), though not whether this is with same supplier ( Read more... )

Charles Dickens: newly discovered documents reveal truth about his death and burial: the name of John Forster was fresh in my mind from the less than glorious role that he played in the sad saga of L.E.L. (and yet another case of reputation management...)
Passionate pioneers - increasing access to botanical artwork by women artists and putting ( Read more... )

But really, this new bio of Mrs Delany is either being badly misrepresented in this review, or just BAD: Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr review - an 18th-century late bloomer. Mary Delany found fame for her flower ‘mosaiks’ in her 70s, but this followed decades of turbulence. I may not know that much about Mrs D, but I do know that she ( Read more... )

Paging the shade of Dr Marie Stopes, not for the usual reason, on account of she got a Royal Society grant to go to Japan to study cycads and chase up the Japanese professor she was keen on before she ever got into human reproduction, and wrote a really not at all bad travel book on the episode, A journal from Japan : a daily record of life as seen ( Read more... )

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Paging Erasmus Darwin?

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At the moment I'm not defriending anybody on LJ even if they've moved operations to DW - but if people are posting exactly the same content to LJ and DW I'm removing them from my default reading list on LJ. However, all accesses remain in place.

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Further to my irritated comment yesterday about report on new exhibit of botanical painting at Kew Gardens, where straight after mentions of women botanical artists who did daring things in pursuit of their art the tradition is dissed as kitchen-sink spinsters. Grrrr. Still annoyed.

Yay for Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and ( Read more... )

Feeling somewhat less blah today - the gusty blustery wind seems refreshing and bracing, at least while the sun is out.

Also revivifying: delicious tapas lunch with rahael - excellent company and conversation.

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About 90,000 pages of manuscripts, field notes, photographs and sketches connected with Charles Darwin are being placed online, where they can ( Read more... )