@cornish_jack @countrywalking @komoot Exactly!

In a supplement to the latest @countrywalking magazine supported by @komoot, I spotted this note on the origins of kissing gates, which made me sceptical (I’d always thought the ‘kiss’ was from the swinging gate touching its frame). This sent me down the footpath of research…🧵

@jspector This is less than half of the ‘shelf’…

Ah, very sad – visited this tree twice this year. Though… the tree almost certainly seeded itself long after Hardy was actually there. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d…

Oh god how I hate board games with 28 pages of rules. If you can’t explain your concept and gameplay within 2 sides of A4, you are overthinking everything. (I realise some people love this sort of game. I don’t get it.)

Everything in life is right now about how soon I can get in front of Detectorists.

Of course I don’t do resolutions but this is the week of the year where I invariably think: I need to walk more; I need to read more; I need to write more.

Oh for heaven’s sake, *another* thing I totally have to sign up for. The moment all of my fave reads are on @SubstackInc I won’t need Twitter any more anyway. twitter.com/cox_tom/status…

@culturaltutor

This piece by @jbernoff is the best nutshell summary of the strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT that I’ve come across: withoutbullshit.com/blog/chatgpt-i… (I say this having experimented a lot with fact-based GPT-3.5 text).