Footnotes

Introduction I’m watching the weather for warmth. Today it’s ten degrees not five which it was last week. I sometimes think of this as an elemental battle or as the Greeks understood it, with the gods. Beira is the Scottish goddess of winter. A few thousand miles away, where is Persephone?  It is warming, but […]

Introduction Some years ago I met a woman giving away a large pile of walking magazines. She was moving to Austria and we talked about her collection, the UK, and her new home. We agreed Austria was superb, and also on the predictability of Britain. “It’s always the same” she said meaning Great Gable, Cader […]

  Introduction Like many other people I’ve reduced my engagements at X, formerly Twitter, after recent changes. Not for politics reasons as such, but because the platform is even more political, which I dislike.  That’s partly the reason. The other development is the insertion of Grok into X, which means a machinic rather than human […]