#SteveReviews: Wild London
When you hear the name Sir David Attenborough, your imagination usually leaps to the sweeping plains of Africa, the coral cities beneath the sea, or the silent expanses of Arctic ice. However in Wild London, a 2026 BBC One documentary…
#MuseumMonday: Mourning the loss of the Human Biology Gallery at the Natural History Museum
I have had the opportunity to visit the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, multiple times over the holiday period and into the New Year for a couple of meetings. To me, the Museum stands as one of the world’s…
#StevesLibrary: Gathering Moss – A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Regular readers of the blog will know that I am doing my best to try to combat plant-blindness. I’ve been visiting more botanical gardens and purchased some books on the topic of plant conservation. One of these is Robin Wall…
#StevesReviews: Why Dinosaurs?
If there is something that I hate about growing up, it is that people stop asking you what your favourite dinosaur is. Despite this, most of us still have one. For me, it is Tyrannosaurus rex. Those of you reading…
#ToyTuesday: Mojo Fun Amphibians and Reptiles Part II
You may remember that back in April I reviewed a number of smaller amphibians and reptiles from Mojo Fun, which was Part I of this series. I kind of forgot about the other half of the figurines that I had,…
#MuseumMonday: The Museum on the Mound
The focus on this week’s #MuseumMonday is a little different to the usual museums I visit. Some of you may know that I am a numismatist (as well as a philatelist), collecting currency that features amphibians and reptiles. I know,…
#StevesLibrary: Turing and the Universal Machine
Okay, time for something a little different. Jon Agar’s Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer is a concise, thoughtful entry in the Icons Science series that does more than recount the life of Alan Turing….
#SciFri: What can you expect at the Bonn University Botanical Garden?
As you may have seen from my previous blog on the Museum Koenig Bonn, I was in Germany in September. Another of the places I visited whilst I was there is the Bonn University Botanic Garden. From the moment you…
#SteveReviews: Prehistoric Planet – Ice Age
When Prehistoric Planet first premiered in 2022, it vaulted natural-history storytelling into a new era by marrying cutting-edge visual effects with immersive narration and the scientific authority of the BBC Natural History Unit. Its first two seasons (about dinosaurs and…
#ToyTuesday: Reviewing the Toymany 12-Piece Madagascar Figurine Playset
Up until this point, the sets I have been reviewing from Toymany have focussed primarily on amphibians and reptiles. Well, I am about to flip the script with a number of sets that may have some amphibians or reptiles in…
