Today the Adelaide Parklands Association (which exists to explore, inspire, protect and restore) held a rather excellent guided tour of the very south-east corner of the Parklands... Not much to say, other than groups like these - existing to defend public space from "practical" bureaucrats/politicians (who oddly often seem to get post-retirement sinecures with developers)... Continue Reading →
My wife has made the outrageous accusation that I buy the Financial Times merely to come up with letters to submit to it. Oh, by the way. Alison Jamieson ("Memories of Little Britaly, FT Weekend, April 8) writes of an Italian ice-cream vendor offering potential customers a taster. It put me in mind of one... Continue Reading →
Saw the Ben Affleck/Matt Damon/Viola Davis film "Air" today. It tells a version of the story of how, in 1984, the footwear company Nike signed then-rookie basketball player Michael Jordan and made a tonne of money (actually, probably several hundred tonnes of money) by creating a shoe that would get everyone buyin'. Short version -the... Continue Reading →
Yomp #01 0755-1105 on 13 04 2023 - 190mins 18kgs of weights in the backpack 60 photos taken (the least unusuable ones are on display below). Galahs, moorhens (WHOOP), sulfur-crested cockatoos "etc" The first yomp of the Adelaide visit is done, and it was a corker. What follows is a bunch of photos, digressions and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I was at the BBC Written Archives Centre, in Reading. Here's me. I think there's three things that make it so fun. First, there is the physicality of it - having objects/bits of paper in your hands, and the little touches - I'd not seen Treasury tags that connect to each other before, for... Continue Reading →
While I wait to receive "no, not shortlisted" and "thanks for doing interview, but no thanks" emails, I am going through piles of printed off articles and putting in three piles - a) for (re)reading and blogging about soon b) for "one day" and c) can go in the recycling (once blank A4 and A5... Continue Reading →
Groundhog Day or End of Days is a project I am doing to find out people's thoughts on the cyclical nature of UK climate activism. You can read more about it here. I'm interviewing various folks, some of whom I already know, and others I don't. The first interview was with Alastair McIntosh, and you... Continue Reading →
Last week I put up a leaflet from November 2000, with activists from Rising Tide trying to explain what was at stake around COP6, in the Netherlands. Well, I've just stumbled on a copy of an Earth First! Action Update from 2002. Here below are the first two pages. Btw, gee, it turns out the... Continue Reading →
I am making short (under 2 min 20 seconds) videos. For the shiggles. Here are two, hopefully self-explanatory. Anxiety Management Rituals https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640357505271488513 Marches as a Zombie Repertoire https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640608156458835969
I set myself a bunch of targets last Sunday. Missed most of them, but did over-achieve on making short (under 2 mins 20 seconds) videos about things I think other people might benefit from knowing/I would have benefited from knowing when I was young. Most of them are "Looting the Ivory Towers", and the others... Continue Reading →
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