There's a bird feeder in my garden. I've had it for about a decade now - Ruth got it for me, I think, as a thirtieth birthday present - and it's still going strong and mostly-intact, despite having been uprooted on several occasions to move house.

I like that I can see it from my

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We arrived in Rome last night to find a city teeming with life. There’s a buzz everywhere, and a crowd whereever you look. Roma Termini, the central station, stretches for miles and is bustling with commuters and tourists, fighting their way through ticket office queues or ( Read more... )

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Recently, Kit wrote about carbon offsetting, calling it wishful thinking at best - at worst, greenwash. In particular, he was looking at tree planting as a method of offsetting carbon emissions, because it’s the most popular method by far. Just this morning I passed a truck ( Read more... )

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Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has released as a free e-book God’s Debris, a short fray into religion and philosophy. I’ve read several of Scott Adam’s books before. Most of these have been comic books - compilations of Dilbert strips. Others have been his interesting, ( Read more... )