Top Albums from last.fm on 20/09/26. 1, Steve Winwood, Nine Lives, (9);
2, Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble, Iran: Persian Classical Music, (6);
3, Khamis El Fino, Music for the classical oud, (4);
4, The Innocence Mission, Sorry and Glad Together, (1);
5, Various Artists, CirculadĂŽ Vivo, (1);

Childhood pickiness wasn’t even a thing until the 1920s. Where did it all go wrong? A heady mix of well-intentioned advice with disastrous consequences, misguided psychology, and a heaping dose of industrial food.

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Toasted muffins with peanut butter, gussied up to look like owls with banana and blueberry eyes and strawberry wings and beak. Desperation driven, I reckon.

2026-09-14

Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260914-W-B2M8NE

  • On foot
  • 43.4747, 12.1380
  • 14 September 2026
  • 424.32 ppm CO2
  • OpenStreetMap

Deep in the Umbrian countryside, even a Rabbit only 1.3 km away (much less as the crow flies) might not be reachable, and so it proved. I got as close as I could, on the edge of an olive orchard, but the Rabbit itself was down in a steep wooded valley.

Composite image; On the left my location with the Rabbit, on the  right, a woodland edge sloping down to the left. In the foreground is patchy scrub and the dried stalk of a mullein inflorescence, with the trunks and leaves of mostly oaks in shade behind.

Top Albums from last.fm on 13/09/26. 1, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, (10);
2, The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream, (10);
3, Joan Sutherland; Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Joan Sutherland: Verdi · Bellini · Donizetti, (5);

Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260903-W-C171SL

  • On foot
  • 55.9376, -3.2137
  • 03 September 2026
  • 423.86 ppm CO2
  • OpenStreetMap

Always nice after a day of travelling to find a rabbit within easy walking distance.

Composite image; On the left my location with the Rabbit, on the  right, the solid gray granite stones of a mortared high wall between me and the Rabbit just on the other side of it.