Sunday snow 221115

• Never been snowboarding?  Under 30?  Watch this [8 mins] and book tix to the mountains for next weekend.
• We got the impossible shot.  Going to Svalbard to take a photograph of a skier silhouetted against a solar eclipse?  in midwinter?  why not?  Alpine-style it's not. 
• Word of mouth. A great magazine programme on BBC wireless.  Here's one on Linnean binomers: how we name living things. The Blob has been on about naming: genes, primates, scientific units.
• Which is just wonderful because one of the speakers cites Geoffrey Grigson's book An Englishman's Flora which I was unable to track down or cite properly a couple of weeks ago.
• Long intriguing essay about how English is not normal.
• Word of mouth again: 30 BBC minutes on the (English) alphabet .  Apparently the series, which is a whole heap of fun for presenters and listeners both, is from an original idea by Frank Delaney from Tipperary. Huzzah!
• Here's a real neat twist-in-the-tail audio piece by our own Rissoles Hayes.
  Bonus: bit part by His Blobbiness.