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This week I learnt how to interpret a synoptic chart. Well. I say that. What I mean is I learnt what the heck a synoptic chart is…

May 14

The most obvious difference between living indoors and living outdoors is the untidyness—hence the urbanite’s obsession with leaf-blowers. But the most…

May 7

I don’t know what I expected from a five day survival bushcraft course in an Oxfordshire woodland, but, on reflection, I should have packed more Hobnob…

Apr 30

This week: birthdays, trespasses and invisible women...

Apr 23

This week: Killer Coke, Ten Tors, soil inoculation and a world without email?

Apr 17

This week: Adriatic, abnormalisation and adulting - and the lollipop moment...

Apr 9

This week: amaranth and the Reach Out Party...

Apr 2

This week: Days of Adventure - purple cow HELP! - and cryptocurrencies versus the climate...

Mar 26

This week: Time tracking comedy, wages ~ immorality, and mapping haikus...

Mar 19

This week: Posthumous Postumus, weekend marathons and the art of skateboarding...

Mar 12

This week: lucky numbers, tree desks, vegan blood test results and emergency carrots

Mar 5

This week: Joseph Haydn, Waldumrauscht and Foiled un-RIPped?

Feb 26

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