Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚

These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.

Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars?

Depends.

As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the electricity you use.

Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚

This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.

A beautiful field near Nowhurst.

Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚

Om Malik with the headline of the day there.

We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities.

Good fences and all that…

I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.

The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet they held in Edinburgh, back in the late 80s.

A Rail Riders club meeting in Edinburgh in the 1980s.Angela from the Rail Riders club in Edinburgh in the 1980s.

Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.

Adam Tinworth on his 12th birthday.