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John Bennett3 weeks ago
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A new video, winter Garden

Gardens are important for biodiversity, but gardens are also aesthetic
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John Bennett3 weeks ago
51

Magical Fungi – Now is the time to look out for fungi’s fruiting bodies.

Australia has up to 250,000 species of fungi
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John Bennett3 weeks ago
33

Ballet moments

I skipped the Bamiyan Buddhas for an armchair
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John Bennett4 weeks ago
31

Tsundoku, 10 July

a blend of tsun (to pile things up) and doku (to read).
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John Bennett4 weeks ago
30

Nostalgia for life, 8 July

Pelicans chase a fishing boat upriver
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John Bennett10/07/2026
31

No whales today, 7 July

impatient with Basho’s cypress tree and sabi
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John Bennett07/07/2026
48

Nostalgia, 6 July

. . . that cider-sweet afternoon in 71
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John Bennett05/07/2026
116

Nostalgia, Kabul

The curfew unexpected. The Russians were coming.
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John Bennett02/07/2026
46

Miilba hypothetical, 1 July

My body reacts to Oystercatchers . . .
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John Bennett01/07/2026
46

The poem is a maybe, 23 June

5,000 years ago, physicians tried to treat sore heads,
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John Bennett22/06/2026
45

The day after the winter solstice

unripe sky, shapeless cloud, each breath, no waste . . .
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John Bennett22/06/2026
37

‘Closer’ , Oystercatcher Two anthology

Watagan Mountains and William Cowper
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