Today I learnt that red fire ants can build themselves into a raft when their nest is flooded, with workers at the bottom, the queen in the middle, and larvae at the top, and it looks like this!

touch of insomnia last night so i read the wren, the wren. tbh for a book set in Ireland, i didn't expect Rangitoto to be catching criticism

Today I completed Thin Places. It’s a bit of a difficult read (in the best of ways), I think I’ll be keeping this one for the rest of my life.

One of the things I absolutely love and admire in plants is their ability to keep going despite how hopeless things can seem; this wee baby was dying when I got it, had bugs and pests and was stressed, and spent the last six months as nothing more than stalks. Look at that recovery, she has leaves!

I finished this 26th January. Loved it, loved it; fantastic writing, sardonic, made me think - my favourite characters were Lee and Samuel (though I think Samuel's written to be admired by anyone reading)

I completed this also 19th January. It was okay, but I don't think I've ever read a book and gone "I know exactly when this was written", the subtitle might as well be "Written in 2010"

I completed this 19th January, but had been reading since December. I didn't know very much about Alastair Campbell so went in a bit blind (things I knew about Campbell: he was in the UK Labour gvmt early 2000s - and I found that out from the cover).

i completed this 10th january! it was a re-read, i really enjoyed it a few years ago and wanted to see if it was as good as i remembered, and it really was!

reading log - i completed this 8th january