Prose and Passion

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 16 During the first half of World War II, Peter the customs officer was luck...

Many of us may envy the birds that migrate to warmer climate zones in winter. We may even naively assume that their expertise in long-haul t...

Just two days after I posted about the recorder family , a long-awaited email came in telling me that the two recorders I had ordered back i...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 15 (season 3 now carrying on after a break due to the 100 years of cellotude series): ...

I got a bit obsessed with vintage postcards when I researched my lost cities series , and word got out, so a generous Santa helped me build ...

When I discussed instrument families in August 2021, I used a wikipedia pic of recorders from sopranino to bass. As it happens, I now have ...

Climate tipping points were once a hypothetical risk in a distant future. After humanity spent the first quarter of the new century not sort...

I love writing about cities as a biological phenomenon, so I have already covered the evolution of cities, urban ecology, and urban evolutio...

One hundred years of cellotude continued: Tenth and final part of Chapter 1 A cello called Heinrich Previous section: When ...

One hundred years of cellotude continued: Ninth part of Chapter 1 A cello called Heinrich Previous section: An amateur stri...

One hundred years of cellotude continued: Eighth part of Chapter 1 A cello called Heinrich Previous section: A civil serva...

I am rapidly running out of big topics that I have never covered in my CB features, but groundwater was one of them until now. With severe d...