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  • book review: How to Take Smart Notes
    Sönke Ahrens. How to Take Smart Notes: revised edn . self published. 2022 This book is aimed at students, academics, and any others who nee...
  • first harvest
    We've had a few home-grown strawberries so far, but this is the first potato harvest of the season.  (A second crop is due later.)
  • as good as new
    The spare part for our  broken garden shredder arrived today, thanks to the speed of online ordering. This is somewhat less worn than the o...
  • gopher tuna
    I've posted about alternative lyrics to Carl Orff's  O Fortuna before . However, I recently came across another version, and real...
  • sequestering carbon, several books at a time CLIII
    The latest batch, comprising his'n'hers birthday presents.
  • goodbye MARCH
    I've been up in York for the last couple of days, visiting colleagues, discussing projects, and, sadly, saying goodbye to MARCH, an EPSR...
  • make do and mend
     We've had our garden shredder since 2008 (when it cost £269), and it's worked hard since. In particular, it recently reduced a huge...

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