Prose and Passion

It has been known for centuries that certain kinds of plants thrive on soils heavily contaminated with toxic metals, even on mining waste. I...

At the beginning of January I discovered a 19th century French book selling for a very affordable £ 1.50 at a charity shop and really liked ...

continuing with the ancient info rescued from from the website about the Weiß chronicles, and following up from generations 10-6 in this blo...

In the long list of potential books that I didn't quite get to the printers, there's one that I wanted to call Nature's chemistr...

Some thoughts on: Listen in: How radio changed the home Beaty Rubens Bodleian Library Publishing 2025 I saw this small exhibition at...

Pirate Luthier update Over the xmas period, I learned how to open up violins, glue cracks, and close them again. I practiced that on the n...

continuing with the ancient texts rescued from from my old website about the Weiss chronicles, here's the short biography of Christoph G...

Back in December, I spotted a research paper about the ecological impact of human-provided food on squirrel populations, and I started to wo...

This fundamental rock on which much of our family history is built has been on my website since time immemorial, but as I am now giving up o...

I haven't updated my dear old website for a few years (because life was moving fast and the process of uploading files to the site was p...

A rare bit of good news for marine biodiversity arrived last December from the unlikely location of landlocked Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The 20...

In december I discovered an unusual kind of two-string fiddle at a charity shop. It was lacking the pegs, strings and bridge, the body is a ...