In the long run....
...we're all dead, so goes the old joke. I've found myself thinking of 'the long run' increasingly often over the last year, and I'm not sure why. I think partially it's due to having children around…
Tagged: ecology
After the Goldrush
There's a song by Neil Young called 'After the Goldrush', which he wrote in the 1970s. There's a couple of lines in there which for the last 20 years have sounded increasingly like a warning: "We got…
I think that I shall never see...
...a thing as lovely as a tree, goes the poem. We've been blessed this year by squirrels in our garden. We live in a suburb of Sheffield with lots of trees which give a great playground for the squi…
The Bus Book - w/c 10th March - On Walden Pond (continued)
As you can see I didn't do an exceptional amount of commuting last week, and Walden remained the Bus Book for this week as well. As I've progressed through it I've come to the conclusion that whilst I…
The Bus Book w/c 3rd March - On Walden Pond
One of the long term running gags in our family is that given half a chance I would either run off to live in the woods or become a hermit in a Monastery. Well, I spottedthis storyrecently that made …