I’m not certain as to his respective land speed, physical strength, or vertical leaping capabilities, but when it comes to Mark Avery’s speed at reading books, he’s definitely super. I turn my back for a fortnight and he’s got four new book reviews posted to his blog.
It was during a walk near Radley Lakes with my friends Jo and Chris that I first suddenly took notice of the isolated curious brown stalks with the odd curling bits all around their tops. We had been stooping our way through what was once a water meadow but of more recent use as a […]
Although it’s much closer to Ostara than Samhain, Mark Avery has clearly been spending a fair amount of time recently reading about ghosts. Not ghosts of the supernatural sort, mind you; rather the Ghost Orchid, Epipogium aphyllum Sw., as featured in the title of Peter Marren’s new book “Chasing the Ghost; My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain” from Square Peg / Penguin UK.