We've all been there.
March 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We've all been there.
The Gothic Tower! Designed by Sanderson Miller; built by Capability Brown; envied by William Mason who tried (unsuccessfully) to get Harcourt to build one like it at Nuneham. Enduring folly!!
February 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Gothic Tower! Designed by Sanderson Miller; built by Capability Brown; envied by William Mason who tried (unsuccessfully) to get Harcourt to build one like it at Nuneham. Enduring folly!!
Well, that last bit was grim. Mostly on the road, with really high verges. Not looking forward to the return leg. Still, Kingston is very pretty, and Wimpole is not far off now. I am thinking fervently about cheese scones.
February 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Well, that last bit was grim. Mostly on the road, with really high verges. Not looking forward to the return leg. Still, Kingston is very pretty, and Wimpole is not far off now. I am thinking fervently about cheese scones.
Very plashy but picturesque. Onwards to Kingston.
February 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Very plashy but picturesque. Onwards to Kingston.
Heading out of sunny Hardwick towards Caldecote. Quite an exciting bit from Coton across a firing range which the leaflet I read about this walk didn't mention, but all good.
February 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Heading out of sunny Hardwick towards Caldecote. Quite an exciting bit from Coton across a firing range which the leaflet I read about this walk didn't mention, but all good.
A bit of a cheat because I once walked to Coton as a student, but it's uncharted waters from here.
February 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A bit of a cheat because I once walked to Coton as a student, but it's uncharted waters from here.
Thus far, the No Map Strategy is working out. Saw a fox skulking across the frozen lawns at Clare, and some rabbits by the Cavendish. Also stopped to buy a coffee, because I am inescapably myself.
February 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Thus far, the No Map Strategy is working out. Saw a fox skulking across the frozen lawns at Clare, and some rabbits by the Cavendish. Also stopped to buy a coffee, because I am inescapably myself.
Unhelpfully, I screencapped this from.....somewhere (the papers at the KCL archives I think?)
February 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Unhelpfully, I screencapped this from.....somewhere (the papers at the KCL archives I think?)
Life imitates art.
February 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Life imitates art.
A good day to stay inside.
January 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A good day to stay inside.
The doctor is in.
January 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The doctor is in.
I absolutely love this description of a book from an advert in the last LRB. Not sure I can think of a more delightful sentence than 'A Moby Dick for Elephants'.
January 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I absolutely love this description of a book from an advert in the last LRB. Not sure I can think of a more delightful sentence than 'A Moby Dick for Elephants'.
This year's festive reading is either very long, or very short.
December 23, 2024 at 10:24 AM
This year's festive reading is either very long, or very short.
'my liege finds my prating too whimsical, my clowning too mélancolique'
December 4, 2024 at 8:46 AM
'my liege finds my prating too whimsical, my clowning too mélancolique'
An essential tool for today's teaching.
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 AM
An essential tool for today's teaching.
This one has too many unbroken straight lines, but I enjoyed making it anyway.
September 15, 2024 at 9:16 PM
This one has too many unbroken straight lines, but I enjoyed making it anyway.
I am stuck on a sentence I am trying to write, so here's the collage I made this morning instead.
August 29, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I am stuck on a sentence I am trying to write, so here's the collage I made this morning instead.
First post pressure. Here's the cat looking predictably cross, and ignoring a) the nice cooling mat I bought her, and b) the nice tent I bought her.
August 22, 2023 at 12:14 PM
First post pressure. Here's the cat looking predictably cross, and ignoring a) the nice cooling mat I bought her, and b) the nice tent I bought her.