I wrote a lot of words last night – around 3,000 of them. None of them are ready for publication, as yet. That’s just the
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My YouTube channel has not seen traffic like this before: That screenshot was taken at just after seven this morning. This is also interesting: And
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Flowers for Friday
When I looked at the photos I took yesterday, I discovered that plants and flowers stood out: We grow dandelions in our back garden. The
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In the National: my column now comes out on Mondays
I have been a columnist for The National newspaper in Scotland for four years now. From this week onwards, my column shifts from Thursday and
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A safari, or the fen?
It was a glorious day at Wicken Fen, south of Ely, yesterday: This is an extraordinary fen landscape: Although the open skies and reedbeds are
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The desired approach to educational videos
This blog post is nothing more than a request for your opinion, which is why it ends with a couple of questions. I am starting
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Portrait artists still have a job
ChatGPT told me it had improved its image creation abilities. So I asked it to produce an image of someone called Richard Murphy, whom I
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A month into retirement
Given that I had noted for some time before it happened that I was going to retire from employment on 28th February this year, it
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Video experimentation
This morning’s video is, I admit, an experiment. The theme has already been addressed on this blog, as many readers might know, but the YouTube
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