Melanie Stone
My blogs
| Industry | Environment |
|---|---|
| Occupation | PhD student |
| Introduction | And now, from the blogger who brought you the many and varied delights of Urban Pollinators..... a new venture, which is completely un-urban, and may not have many pollinators (but there's going to be a few..... there will always have to be a few...) |
| Interests | The glorious tiny and perfectly formed speedwell, Shadow-boxing solitary bees, Disappearing newts, Faster-than-I butterflies, The digging of new holes in old sediments, Chalk (lots of chalk) |
| Favorite movies | The Rainmaker, Hairspray (well, specifically, the dance duo between John Travolta and Christopher Walken :) ) |
| Favorite music | On the sunny side of the street, Red sails in the sunset, Stormy weather, Chisel Hill, Raindrops keep fallin' on my head, It's raining men, Sunshine on my shoulders, Solsbury Hill, Boys of summer |
| Favorite books | Keri Hulme's The Bone People, Harry Dodson's Practical Kitchen Gardening, My battered old copy of Rose complete with many pressed and occasionally anonymous samples, Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, Richard Horwood's Skallagrigg (one of only two books to make me weep like a child) |