Prose and Passion

The brilliant thing about clergymen showing up in the family history is that there are actual short biographies of these people online, eg i...

I keep writing about trees, all the wonderful things they do for us, and why we should stop deforestation. I never joined the dots quite lik...

Over the last few decades, there has been a growing awareness of the fact that commensal microbiota are important just about everywhere, fro...

Digging into the ancestry of Anna Katharina Andrae (1742-1816) from Gebroth, we've established that her presumed great-great-grandfathe...

I'm organising a Cowley Orchestra Feature Evening for next week where we will focus on: Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn): Overture in C m...

In the Weiß Chronicles , Johann Gottlieb Weiß (1736-1800) the mayor of Pferdsfeld (see generation 8) marries Anna Katharina Andrae (1742-1...

Many infectious diseases have managed to establish themselves in human populations after the advent of agriculture, when dense settlements e...

I recently revisited the family history around the Weiß chronicles , which I hadn't touched in a long time, and discovered quite a few n...

Pirate Luthier update After crack repair, successful reassembly and setting up of the quite lovely violin number 30 , I turned to some le...

After revisiting the Weiß Chronicles including the biography of Johannes Weiß, the vicar of Eckweiler from 1740 to 1772, I had another look...

... rescued from my ancient website which is now offline. Looking at this again after around 15 years, I've discovered a few things to ...

There are animal species, often apex predators, which many humans seem to worship for their fierce power, such as lions, cheetahs and eagles...