The Robert Hooke Biodiversity Bell
I had one of those wonderful big city moments yesterday, when you are passing through a routinely familiar area, barely logging the surroundings, only to be…
Big Ideas Change the World
Mike Childs at Friends of the Earth is responsible for suggesting a fair chunk of my environment reading list this month, courtesy of the latest in…
Last Shop Standing
Frank Turner told a jubilant Berwick Street crowd yesterday that Record Store Day is his favourite day of the year and I think I agree with…
British Sea Power
Shepherd's Bush Empire, 17 April 2013 I first stumbled across British Sea Power at the Reading Festival when on a 20 minute break from working behind…
Spring has sprung
British Sea Power provided the soundtrack to the weekend, with ‘Spring Has Sprung’ proving the perfect accompaniment to the first t-shirt-weather day of the year. It got its first play while I woke the off-road bikes from their winter slumber, and the joyous refrain “birdsong sings in the atmosphere; spring has sprung out of nothing” kept popping back into my head throughout the day as Liz and I followed the River Lea from our home in Walthamstow down to the Thames at Limehouse.
Jarvis and Attenborough in radio heaven
What a day Sunday was on Radio 6 (6Music if you must), but Jarvis Cocker stole the show with his two hour chat on music and nature with David Attenborough.
Everything a river should be
Travelling back from a ridiculously short work trip to Monterrey I have been thinking about rivers. A conjunction of three events has put waterways in my…
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