Tangled Bank Foraging and Fibre Crafts

In light of the UK government’s recent advice to households to stock up on food and water in anticipation of potential interruption of supplies this winter, I wrote a Mastodon thread on water management without access to the mains which a few people asked…

The Anarchist Gardeners Club at Glastonbury Festival, June 2025 by Black Lodge Press.

I’m still wearing a mask in 2026.

A documentary called Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator aired on Saturday on Channel 4, covering work done by the team who conducted the genetic identification of Richard the Third’s skeleton to sequence Adolf Hitler’s genome from a fragment of bloody…

I was so lucky last month to marry Charlie, the most wonderful person I’ve ever met.

Olio is an app that launched in the UK in 2015, encouraging people to share surplus food and so prevent food waste.

I’ve been a regular cycle commuter in both London and Exeter so am pretty confident on a bike.

Photo by Tania Ford on Pexels.com I am a fully paid up member of the tofu-eating wokerati and probably drink more gin and tonic than is entirely reasonable, so was disappointed to see the following shared on Mastodon: I downloaded the image in question for

Last night my partner and I went to see Mikaela Loach, climate justice organiser and author of “It’s Not That Radical” in conversation with Kalkidan Legesse at Bookbag, Exeter’s independent bookshop.

I woke up this morning to the depressing news that CoBikes, Exeter’s bike and electric car hire scheme, had gone into administration and would be ceasing operations.