The Pulitzer awarded no prize this year for editorial cartooning despite having Tom the Dancing Bug among its finalists—his “Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Day in Trump’s America” was worth the prize alone. Tom Tomorrow points out the problems well.
Lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
This was a low-key spring compared with last year’s, without as many visits to the garden to track the growth of the flowers, but I managed a few photos of blossoms and blooms, plus my best-ever shot of a giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo (though don’t raise your expectations too much). This modest gallery ends with a sunset on Portobello Beach, briefly observed while picking up my teenage son from a friend’s place the weekend after lockdown ended. The way the summer is looking, I’m not sure how many more of those there will be.
A two-month gap in posting could do with some explanation, but the details wouldn’t make for the cheeriest entry, so I’ll skip lightly past them and turn to some photos I’ve been tinkering with off and on in the meantime.
Since my parents moved there in the mid-2000s I’ve added seven galleries of the Tasman Peninsula to Detail—eight including the one of Port Arthur—and here’s a ninth, going back to a camping trip in the mid-’90s and a day trip the following summer. The negatives had yellowed with age, so the scans needed work (some are from the original prints), but the results aren’t too bad. As with my other old photos of places I’ve visited many times, there are echoes of more recent ones, but they’re still worth a look.
Reactions are spiking at Chernobyl.
We’re hurtling toward global suicide.
The scientists turning the desert green.
England’s forgotten rainforests.
An electric vehicle motor that uses no magnets.
A battery that charges sixty times faster than lithium-ion.
Food exporters are having to cut ties with the EU.
Europe’s trust in Britain has gone.
“After Calais it is the north pole.”
Why the UK isn’t winning Eurovision.