Posted 7 months ago

A wonderfully appropriate early birthday card from my colleagues

Posted 7 months ago

Well what else would you call indoor grass just for cats?

Posted 7 months ago

The River Thames and the Wandle trail

Posted 7 months ago

Sunlight through the trees in Richmond Park

Posted 7 months ago

A frosty and beautiful Richmond Park on a Sunday morning

Posted 7 months ago

Giles Fraser on capitalism, sustainability and resources

The focus Giles Fraser has on talking about society and the environment is admirable. Just imagine if the Church establishment was raising these issues as much as it does gay marriage.

Posted 7 months ago

Today's going through my head song

Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World.

Which might be related to yesterday’s news.

Posted 7 months ago

Distant Mordor

Posted 9 months ago
Our response [so far] has not been alarm, or panic, or a sense of emergency. It has been: ‘Let’s go up there and drill for oil’. There is no more perfect indictment of our failure to get to grips with the greatest problem we’ve ever faced.

Bill McKibben, quoted by The Guardian on the dramatic reduction in Arctic ice. 

Posted 9 months ago

Last weekend was only the second time I’ve been to Richmond Park on two feet, rather than two wheels. It’s one of the few places in London where you feel a proper degree of personal space. Parakeets, joggers, cars at 20mph and deer notwithstanding.