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The Tamworth Tap is a three-time CAMRA National Pub of the Year. I felt a degree of trepidation before entering. There’s always a worry with anything so acclaimed that it might not live up to its billing, might be a disappointment, might...
I have a couple of days solo soon (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) and whilst I’ll still be working it does give me a little scope to get some other things done. One of which will be to check the brakes on my bang about bike as they are...
Yet again, a long drought between my last post and this one. Unusual for me in the reasonably recent past, now a common occurrence. I keep asking myself “why?”, why am I not posting as much when I loved it so much before? When attempting...
Akash Wadhwani has put together something really cool — a full history of WWDC invites.
There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has...
More grief today learning of the loss of Anthony Stewart Head. I met him at a con once. It was probably the summer of 2003. He was so generous with his time, chatting with a couple of us from the official Buffy posting board until his...
Optimism and radical listening
Following my post about Catching up on Reading, I wanted to outline some of the books that I’m looking forward to reading/listening to over the next month. I’ve tried to...
Writing these is cathartic, and also is a reason to stop and look at the trees so I can do environmentalist virtue signalling on my blog that I suspect very few people read.In the field, Ghyll bounds amid big heaps of clover, thick and...
According to her website (sorry, no link love here), Katherine Starr™ is a 2-time Olympian (she swam on Great Britain’s swim team under the name “Annabelle Cripps“) and a sexual abuse survivor. She now spends a lot of time thinking......