Prose and Passion

Some thoughts on: The Butcher, The Tailor, The Picture-Frame Maker... Stories of Middle Way Gareth Winrow The Book Guild 2023 The aut...

Pirate Luthier update This month I rescued an old cello , gave away a violin (number 23), and received one to repair and ret...

We do like to think that the stuff we put into recycling bins or return to shops will be neatly disassembled and reconfigured into new produ...

I reported about the Earth BioGenome Project, which aims to obtain genome sequences for all eukaryotic species known to science, when it lau...

Three years ago, just before I embarked on my pirate luthier journey, I discovered a book about lutherie techniques in the Oxfam bookshop a...

Einstein's violin sells for £860k at auction , the BBC reported this week (on 8.10.2025). The trouble is, he owned several violins throu...

Pirate Luthier update Two years ago, when I was looking for a cello as Heinrich the family cello was about to move out to rejoi...

I completely missed the memo when this happened but two separate molecular studies published earlier this year convincingly show that a know...

Pirate Luthier update The second violin I discovered during that lucky day on Gloucester Green market, number 29 on my boo...

It's strange that we are calling our planet "Earth" as there isn't all that much earth around here. There's a metal co...

Living organisms communicate on many different channels, from chemical signalling to ultrasound, and wherever researchers look they find tha...

Some thoughts on Museum bums: A cheeky looks at butts in art Mark Small and Jack Shoulder Chronicle Books 2023 Back in the good old ...