Monday, June 23, 2014

H is for Hawk events

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 Upcoming talks and events for  H is for Hawk . Come and say hello! October 27th: Toppings & Company, Bath  November 1st: Black H...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Book news

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Well, it's done, and in, and it'll be published this summer ! Much excitement and a sense that I don't quite know what to do wit...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Probably the best book index ever

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This work of genius is the author's index from Samuel Butler's Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (1881). Click...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Here

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Yesterday morning I shut the black front door, squinted into the mothy spring light, and wandered off down the hill towards coffee. On my wa...
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Monday, September 06, 2010

Walden, feat. Gainsborough

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Autumn’s very sudden this year. Two weeks ago was summer. Now the flowers are dead, the sky is the curious burnished blue of the inside of a...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Apes and Woodpeckers

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A bit of blog thievery today, while I work on a piece of writing for Professor X's retirement do. Oh: and I have a (non-academic, but sm...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Impressed

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Our garden pond here is covered in duckweed. I stood with mum today, looking at it idly. I suppose we should clear it, a bit. It's not t...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Beeside

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This glorious snippet from P. L. Travers' What the Bee Knows comes courtesy of my friend James P., who found it on the Bookslut blog : ...
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Diamond

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Did you read this story last week? Three conmen tried to sell the Ritz Hotel for £250m in an elaborate scam that was simply "too good t...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Surveillance

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I have become addicted to this .
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Why the hell

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I have been examining and refereeing like a bastard for the last few weeks. And tonight I'm sitting in a colleague's rather beautif...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Rightmove delight!
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Fever

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By way of an apology for the strident-and-self-righteous tone of that last post. In my defence, I was coming down with a fever. Which seemed...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Housecall

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Ash

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Frankly, I’m a bit hacked off. This Saturday I had a plane booked to go to Iceland to see the volcano . And in a manoeuvre of some irony, th...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

I love this town

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Gossss

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

An ex-cep-tional afternoon's haul...

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The following post

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Is that most irritating thing, an academic paper I never published because I couldn't for the life of me track down some of the missing ...