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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; etc . Saw H is f...

Someone recommended John Vaillant as a book-writing journalist, so I snagged  Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (2023) off the...

In Summer 2024, I was delighted to bear witness when my pal Dan Bradley was elevated to FRS. He has been doing sterling work for more than ...

On Thursday last week, I was crossing our lane when I was hailed by one of our many hikers. Terry Platt was doing a wee recce because one of...

More tributes to the Irish way of death last week. About four years ago a friend of ours, a bit older than me, started the process of forget...

Went into town last Friday forenoon to get food in for StPs weekend.  Lidl for fizzy water and block Gruyère, Aldi for toothpaste, Dunnes fo...

I have an Internet parapal who fell in love with Iceland before it started to be a Sunday-paper colour-supplement destination. Not for the f...