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Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton is a great read: fast, funny, useful. Design is not storytelling for pleasure: stories are being used to make money.

A poster is designed. Objects are designed. Museums are designed. The design of everything,...

We’ve been homeschooling for a while now. I’ve lost count of the number of weeks. I now think of time in the number of projects we complete: winter, three little pigs, gingerbread man, red riding hood. At first, I was very enthusiastic: for the win...

Jay Rayner has recently been recommending cookbooks. I like Jay Rayner's columns. Obviously, I’m not alone. Hesitate too long to buy his book recommendations and the price rises from pennies to hundreds of pounds. Indecision meant I missed out on the...

Recently we have seen a lot of lichen on our walks. Once beautiful green hedges are suddenly covered with a sort of green fungus. What are lichens, I asked myself?

Dawkins has an answer in his book, The Selfish Gene.

Richard Dawkins, The...

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much. Tyrion Lannister (George RR Martin)