Prose and Passion

Oxford has a few lovely new low-traffic neighbourhoods, essentially closing down rat runs between main roads with modal filters ( see my pho...

As monkeypox and the smallpox vaccine are becoming a bit of an issue these days, I am grateful that I am just about old enough to have recei...

Every picture tells a story No. 39 In this series I am aiming to use real life photos rather than studio portraits, but in some branches o...

High mountain lakes, streams and glaciers are often seen as the ultimate natural environments untouched by human devastation, but climate ch...

Every picture tells a story No. 38 Let's move on from Peter Eberle's three daughters to his three sisters. They were Anna B...

Every picture tells a story No. 37 Some time last week I came across a photo on twitter claiming to show the earliest born human to hav...

It is always nice to have a charismatic species with a memorable name as a mascot for a feature, so the Arabian oryx ( Oryx leucoryx ), the ...

some thoughts on Cocido y violonchelo Mercedes Cebrián Penguin Random House Literatura 2022 available from Blackwells , not sure why...

Every picture tells a story No. 36 Frieda the pianist had a bit of a struggle bringing up three daughters on her own during WW2 and th...

Plague Year(s) Bach Project, 18th month I'm back in the swing of daily Bach practice, and have recovered the five performance-ready m...

Every picture tells a story No. 35 Heinrich the cellist and Maria didn't have a car but they were close friends with a couple who h...

In my series on "how to turn hours of doomscrolling into useful research" I bring you my insights on the war in Ukraine, more spec...