Now the Festival is Over
Photo: Ollie Neas (left), Asher Emanuel and Racheal Reeves (not in this photo, clearly), have put hundreds of unpaid hours Continue reading
Glenda Jane Lewis
I am a freelance science communications adviser and writer. As well as organising lecture tours and media for visiting scientists, I devise national science programmes such as the Transit of Venus, Are Angels OK?, and from Africa to Aotearoa – the longest journey. I write about science and the environment in the context of current issues and personal experiences. This is the place for that writing.
Cold Nights & Blind Corners
In memoriam Seddon Bennington, 8 October 1947 – 11 July 2009 Photo courtesy of the Dominion Post We were all Continue reading
A Highway runs through it
State Highway 2 cuts Norsewood village (popn 330) in half. Not so much a bypass as a frontal lobotomy. Yet Continue reading
Rats and Mice – a personal history
Photo: Jean Stanley of Pukawa, Lake Taupo, and Professor Charles Daugherty, 2013 Here’s a scene worthy of Breaking Bad for gory invention. Continue reading
Storm on the Horizon
Retired farmer, George Fawdry, receives me in the very warm sunroom of his bungalow, looking out onto the peak Spring flower Continue reading
The Two Tenors
Arthur (left) and Laurie from Milton and Shipton under Wychwood respectively, are members of the New Wychwood Singers. The choir started in Continue reading
Calving Time
Photo caption: I had this banner made a couple of Christmases ago after a local farmer finally fenced his stock Continue reading
Henry, Paul and Martin
Henry Astor on his farm in Milton-under-Wychwood In medieval times Wychwood Forest was West Oxfordshire. The three villages of Shipton, Continue reading
