BBC NEWS | Twitter useful for something

BBC NEWS | England | London | Commuters asked to write Haikus

I like this: Kings Place are running a haiku competition via Twitter ...

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hunting the lost Beagle

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hunting the lost Beagle

Pretty near where I grew up.

BBC - Wicken Fen, Britain's oldest nature reserve

BBC - Mark Easton's UK: Map of the Week: We are animals

2009/37: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall -- Hilary Mantel

Beyond and beneath this whole realm of England ... there is another landscape: there is a buried empire, where he fears his commissioners cannot reach. Who will swear the hobs and the boggarts who live in the hedges and in hollow trees, and the wild men who hide in the woods? Who will swear the saints in their niches, and the spirits that cluster at holy wells rustling like fallen leaves, and the miscarried infants dug into unconsecrated ground: all those unseen dead who hover in winter around forges and village hearths, trying to warm their bare bones? For they too are his countrymen: the generations of the uncounted dead, breathing through the living, stealing their light from them, the bloodless ghosts of lord and knave, nun and whore, the ghosts of priest and friar who feed on living England, and suck the substance from the future. (p.575)

( non-spoilery review, unless you count English history as spoilers )