My main site is at euanlawson.com but this is my spot for scribblings and blether. Contact details etc can be found over there too. Sort of a microblog p...
I have to admit, when I get an email with a red flag stating it is 'important', it raises antibodies with me. I strongly suspect the person at the other end has a dysfunctional relationship with email and doesn't fully understand how communication works. Of course, some of this is just workplace norms, and people get subjected to this in their organisation or institution, and the only way to get…
Some things I have done today: Enhanced my daily run with a little plogging Installed KOReader onto my Kindle Oasis (needed a jailbreak) Repaired some rotten window beading Sketched out a plan for a vegetable bed in my garden including: squash, courgettes, sugarsnap peas, and also spinach/rocket/salad leaves Worked out how to replace some rotten gateposts that are about to fall apart. Sat in the…
I live in a rural spot and I run the same set of lanes almost every day. Today, I got home, realised I want to do another kilometre or so and ran to a spot where a busier A-road meets one of the single track lanes. I deliberately took a bag when me and filled it up with rubbish. Been meaning to do it for ages. This has, of course, a name and we can thank the Swedes this time. "Stockholm Sweden…
One of the book 'clusters' I want to get into this year is around academic activism. There can be a tension here, in some quarters at least, about academics having any kind of opinion. That's particularly the case where the underlying epistemological position tends to be of the die-hard positivist type. Everything has to be quantifiable and objective and adopting any kind of political position…
I’ve been thinking about some plans on what to read in the next few months. This might be doomed to failure as one of the ways I manage to keep reading is by mixing it up - it keeps me interested and stops me getting bored. I do like the idea of taking a deeper dive into a topic or reading a series to appreciate an author across a body of work. For non-fiction I’d also be keen to then write a…
Here are the scores on the door. This amounts to 616 books over these six years. Gosh. 1 2025: 88 books - 59 non-fiction and 29 fiction. 2024: 95 books - 45 non-fiction and 50 fiction. 2023: 103 books - 96 non-fiction and 7 fiction. 2022: 94 books - 90 non-fiction and 4 fiction. 2021: 114 books - 111 non-fiction and 3 fiction. 2020: 122 books - 119 non-fiction and 3 fiction. Even this small sample…
It has been a difficult week for running in my corner of the world. My efforts involve getting up onto the Howgill fells but this week the wind has been blowing out of the east. That means, as usual, it is cold and it is making running particularly grim. Wind has to be the biggest enemy when outside trying to make progress. It's not just the sheer physical exertion required to battle into it or…