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Omne Bonum

July 31, 2022 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Omne Bonum (Every Good Thing) is an incomplete encyclopaedia created by James le Palmer (died ~1375) which survives as four volumes in the British Library. Can we say that every thing is good in our knowledge 650 years on?

The outer covers for Omne Bonum
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks Tagged With: bracket books ireland, chapbook, colour, fabhappy, irish tree society, photography, photos, plants, the uplift kit

Modern Savings

April 29, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Individuals often spend without thinking but it’s not something you’d want a government to do. What you’d want to see is a reasoned explanation of the proposed expenditures and the sources of the budget to fund them. The evidence should be documented with no less detail than a judicial summary of a trial. The same care and detail should documented for the management of public health.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: exploration, pandemic, photos, plants, travel

Poetic Ageing

April 28, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘I want a poem
I can grow old in.’ ¹

Poet and Professor Eavan Boland died a year ago yesterday.

Shooting tulips.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: booklink, eavan boland, photos, plants, poetry

Wake Robin

April 18, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Each night, for the last week, the heady fragrance of trillium has wafted up to the bedroom. Up some five metres comes the perfume from the eight flowerheads. I’m not a chemist but I do wonder about the concentration levels of the compounds that transmit olfactory pleasure over such a distance. I think these things walking in the park when socially distant hair shampoo and personal perfumes waft over me. The fear of covid should have changed us all.

Trillium potted on the back deck.
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Plant Brains

March 13, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

You probably have enough oxygen to realise that conscious thought becomes increasingly difficult as the level of oxygen decreases. You’ve probably always known that brain death happens very rapidly. You may even know that decay starts within 5 minutes of an interruption to the supply of oxygen. In short, you might not know it as hypoxia. Yes, brain hypoxia can cause severe brain damage or death surprisingly quickly.

How smart is this?
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: christof koch, daniel dennett, irish times, kavli prize, michael viney, photo, plants, scientific american, ungrievable

Echium Shot

November 24, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I have lots of reason to like this picture. Chief among them is that it’s of an echium that lived in our front garden for the usual 18 months. It came from the first seed that germinated, sprouted, grew and thrived from a batch of seeds that was given to us by a very keen gardener and friend who died earlier this year.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: gardening, photo, plants

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