HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 25 articles in category 'Nature'. Scrapbook for May Gentian | The social media censors Posted on UTC 2022-05-01 02:01 Words: 533; reading time: 2 minutes Bradgate's ancient ones The residents of Bradgate's medieval deer park, ageing gracefully. Posted on UTC 2021-11-21 07:01 Words: 1,134; reading time: 5 minutes The larch ascending The magic mountain moment in golden October. Posted on UTC 2021-10-24 06:44 Words: 1,182; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for May Not the Age of Reason | 'Latest comments' panel | Clap for the NHS | What would Treebeard say? Posted on UTC 2020-05-01 02:01 Words: 848; reading time: 3 minutes The quince Still inedible after two and a half millennia. Posted on UTC 2019-10-08 14:03 Words: 1,228; reading time: 5 minutes The trembling aspen A look at the literary and musical life of a Populus tremula, with a contribution from Franz Schubert. Posted on UTC 2019-09-27 14:12 Words: 7,116; reading time: 32 minutes The chestnut tree at the gate How to learn German in nine days. Posted on UTC 2019-08-28 09:27 Words: 2,321; reading time: 10 minutes Scrapbook for June Boris the Card | Lindenbaum | The choice is theirs | News from the asylum | The last insanity Posted on UTC 2019-06-01 02:01 Words: 863; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for May Calm and contented | Doris Day | Seen recently in passing Posted on UTC 2019-05-01 02:01 Words: 293; reading time: 1 minute Pollen Earlier and more pollen – another nail in our climate coffin. Posted on UTC 2019-04-17 11:15 Words: 2,768; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for December Spot the human dot | What's in a name? | Aspen year Posted on UTC 2018-12-01 02:01 Words: 388; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for November More Envy of the World™ | InSight lands on Mars | Something for the flag experts | Three-bar flags | Good idea, Angela! | Our aspen | More means less Posted on UTC 2018-11-01 02:01 Words: 578; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for October Kubitschek: down but not out | Aspen calm | The Great British Winter Festival | Gottfried Keller's 'Dreambook' Posted on UTC 2018-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,722; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for September Lunacy of the Year award | Of moles and men | Late summer Tennyson Posted on UTC 2018-09-01 02:01 Words: 683; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for August Rattling the begging bowl | Coexistance | Ten to three | The noise of apples falling from trees | Tommy Robinson free | The obituary from Hell Posted on UTC 2018-08-01 02:01 Words: 2,056; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for July Two lettuce leaves short of a salad | Tommy Robinson | For your diary | Our aspen in summer | Here we go again | Don't do it, Vernon! | The free market | That Brexit shambles | Novichok: the story so far Posted on UTC 2018-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,434; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for May Site changes | Yulia Skripal | Yet more on the GDPR | The GDPR(?) | UK trade post-Brexit | Playing the Windsors | Comment of the day | That time of year when… | 999 blue balloons | Site changes Posted on UTC 2018-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,416; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for April King Louis | Pallywood | The art of wellbeing tour | Sun Queen nuts | Germany: Toddlers mixing paint | Patience Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 02:01 Words: 675; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for January Germany: no change – as usual | The End of the Rainbow | A word to the wise | Ordinary Passengers | Our solitary aspen cluster | NHS excuse of the week | Envy-of-the-World™ – no change | Warpaint | Eight dummies and a funeral Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,438; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for October CSI: Las Vegas – Crime Scene Incompetence | More days of autumn | British beer | Stag hunting | The twelve days of autumn | Swiss family picnic | Dice rolling by a skilled opponent | The unseen cost of wind [energy] Posted on UTC 2017-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,265; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for September Last supper [updated] | A century of progress | Please, Lord, let they handmaid depart in peace (ASAP). | Keeping an eye on the Germans | The school run – alpine style | How to become a published author Posted on UTC 2017-09-01 02:01 Words: 726; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for October More intimations of mortality | Alan Turing, useful genius | Dismantling Hillary | Aberfan: a tale of two inquiries | Matt Ridley: Global Warming versus Global Greening | Snowflake of the Month | A grave question | More Waugh | The plague of politics | Intimations of mortality | Mummy knows best | Looking over your shoulder | Spare the rod Posted on UTC 2016-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,553; reading time: 11 minutes Bees pulling strings It's always the same in hierarchical societies. Posted on UTC 2016-10-07 17:08 Words: 1,373; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for April Aide-memoire | #BringBackOurMen | Heartwarming | Dressing gown | Boaty McBoatface | John Whittingdale, chick magnet | The devastating power of hashtags | The terrorists are winning | Butch Spaniards on the rampage | A helpful tip for savers | Headline of the year candidate | The helping hand Posted on UTC 2016-04-01 02:01 Words: 2,509; reading time: 11 minutes Scrapbook for March Tears: an instrument of foreign policy | Wasting police time | Headline of the year award | Rigour, not mortis | Geography made easy | The god of the forest | Hyacinth time | Swiss referendum updates | The Dohlen are here! Posted on UTC 2016-03-01 02:01 Words: 750; reading time: 3 minutes
