One Man's Notes

On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream from Richmond we once spotted a polystyrene takeaway tray on which somebody had placed - for no adequately explicable reason - some poo. They had adorned this with a small Union flag, fixed at a jaunty angle, and set the whole thing sailing off down the river. We watched it until it was gone from view.

— From Elegy For a River by Tom Moorhouse 📚

This, and the piece it’s based on, are well worth a read: Dorothy Thompson On Who Goes Nazi

Sad that it feels as relevant today as it did when it was written.

Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.

OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.

Futurism:

After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, Australia, a local woman used her electric car to power her son’s life-saving dialysis machine.

Sometimes having a giant mobile battery is incredibly useful.

I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two bags of beans to go.

A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.

Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚