Growing up I used to watch the film Richie Rich a lot. It had Macaulay Culkin as the young heir to an absurdly rich family under threat from a scheming family ‘friend’. It had lasers and butlers and obscene displays of wealth. Think of it as a sort of Home Alone for the 1%. Julian …
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WILTW 3
What Ian Learned This Week: An occasional attempt to capture bits and bobs I’ve learned in the past week or so. Most definitely not done every week, but basically whenever I feel like it. Hill figures Reading Hidden Histories, and learning more about features of the British countryside I’m particularly struck by the chapter on …
WILTW 2
What Ian Learned This Week: An occasional attempt to capture bits and bobs I’ve learned in the past week or so. Most definitely not done every week, but basically whenever I feel like it. Gizzard juggling Reading a book about robins and somehow ended up down a rabbit hole of reading about gizzards. Gizzards are …
What I. learned this week 1
A probably weekly hodgepodge of interesting – to me anyway – titbits that I learned this week. Writing this mainly for myself and as an exercise to keep me writing more often. As you can tell from this first one I have a fairly high tolerance for tedious reading and facts. London to Dublin This …