Not sure what to say this month. Not quite to 200 days – although I am on the 200th as I type. Here are two…
Category: Misc
The ‘other’ always needed in any classification.
I don’t feel I really understand something until I have had a go at it so, having watched some YouTube videos on Afghan Box Cameras,…
Five years ago I made a commitment to do a 20 minute mindfulness walk ever day during my lunch hour at the Botanics. I put…
Why bark if you have a dog? We need to be reminded to let someone else take over and do a job rather than doing…
I’m teaching myself to make podcasts. Like many things this is harder than I thought but I like learning stuff and the way I force…
On Tuesday 6th February I passed the 100 walks mark when, if I was a real Japanese Marathon Monk, I would have asked formal permission…
I was really losing it at work in the run up to Christmas. No motivation, just staring at the screen or surfing the web. I…
I’m having fun with a couple of mics making some binaural recordings. Here is the first one that is even worth sharing. You need to…
I often hear people say that there are too many people in the world or even that responsible “people” should have fewer children. There is…
Just to reiterate I’m not a monk and I’m not running 26.219 mile marathons – which makes the title a bit of lie. I’m walking…
It was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of course that…
Pick a date, any date. I pick this one. A nice astronomical date. This is when the series of “marathons” begins. Summer Solstice 05:24 Wednesday…
I remember a story about a guy who set off to walk from the centre of the USA to the ocean relying on the kindness…
Coverage of my recent paper in The Sun – I’ve made it! But surely it should be “Its A View To A Chill.”? The film…
The Cloud Lottery
Biophilomatics: A new field courtesy of IKEA?
I just made my first Instructable: DIY Silent Practise Guitar
I took lay ordination into the Order of Interbeing as True Embracing Oak (Chân Sồi Bao Dung) on 28th August 2015 – a year ago today.…
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At Henry’s book…
About a year a go I had committed to photograph people on their allotments as my next project when Sutherland Forsyth suggested I document the…
Lovely to be joined by Robert on my lunchtime walk today. He’s off to India for five months is a couple of weeks.
Can’t resist a quick comment on this article on BBC News today.Hawking: Humans at risk of lethal ‘own goal’. He says that assuming humanity eventually…
Sunday evening and I’m taking the snaps off my camera. It has been dark and I’ve been hold up writing software for my Ten Breaths Map…
Today I gave my three minute presentation in the FameLab Scottish Final at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh having got through the Edinburgh…
Way back in the 1980s I worked as a young researcher for Prof David Moore at Reading University on a popular book called Plant Life (OUP 1991) which I believe…
In searching around for a subject to talk on at FameLab Scotland in January I stumbled across the fact that I had possibly been misusing…
A few weeks back Edinburgh Beltane Public Engagement Network offered a free day of presentation skills training with Mel Sherwood. When I say free I mean…
Over the last year my main project has been photographing the people involved in reconstructing the Botanic Cottage. This is Sutherland who is the organiser of community…