Findlay Wilde is a friend of mine. He blogged here in 2012 (Is the future in safe hands?), 2013 (Guests at Nature’s Table), 2014 (Wishing you a Harry Christmas) and now this is his 2015 blog! Back in June this year, I posted a series of guest blogs on…
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Talks this week
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I’m giving two talks this week – one in Berkshire (Wednesday evening) and the other in Norfolk (Thursday evening). I’ll be at the Berkshire Ornithological Society on Wednesday in room 109 of the Palmer Building at Reading University’s Whiteknights Park. Non-members are welcome provided they cough up £4 on the door. And then on Thursday…
Talks given
I’ve been talking to Yorkshire recently – has it been listening? I’ve never given exactly the same talk twice in my life – that’s partly because every talk is somewhat tailored to the audience (as best as one can – sometimes one doesn’t know that much about the audience) and they are usually of slightly…
Shifting baselines
The idea of shifting baselines is an important one. We tend to be trapped in our own memories – our imaginations fail to grasp what we haven’t seen for ourselves further back in time. We all have our baselines and they affect what we feel about everything, what we regard as normal and acceptable. In…
Marmite
It’s quite fun reading the reviews of Inglorious on Amazon. Now there are 22 of them and they average at 4 stars out of 5 stars. That’s pretty good. But I can’t help noticing that if you only look at the reviews that are from verified purchasers of Inglorious (eight of them) – then they…