02 April 2020

The World Is Too Much With Us, A Beautiful Poem By Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much With Us, A Beautiful Poem By Wordsworth From Around 1802

10 April 2016

Springtime Reaches Aldborough

Boroughbridge Road Near Marton-cum-Grafton

17 June 2010

How Do Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases And The Earth's Orbit All Link Together?

I've written a number of blogs now where I try to get to grips with some of the numbers underlying global warming.  So far, I agree that the historic figures do demonstrate global warming over the last 100+ years within a relatively wide band of poss...

31 May 2010

Ripon Water Walks - Along The Ure

I mentioned in my first blog about walks in Ripon in North Yorkshire that I did not believe that Ripon had only been settled as a monastery in 650AD.  I believe this basic historical fact about Ripon's history even less now after walking along the Ri...

16 May 2010

Two Thoughts On Nature After A Walk In North Yorkshire

I walked along the River Ure last night.  It was sunny and warm, albeit with a slightly brisk wind towards the south east.  I was amazed that no-one else was out walking along the embankments - there are about 5,000 locally - but I guess that the dra...

11 April 2010

Pale Blue Dot

Sometimes you read something that says things so much more clearly and beautifully than one could ever hope to do oneself.  And I have recently read one of those - it comes from Richard Dawkins' brilliant anthology of science writing called "The Oxfo...

26 May 2009

In awe at nature