Will Webster

Would recommend reading this twice…

This is a real problem

*30 seconds into the book title brainstorm

"Yeah, that'll do."

2025 has taught me that rain hits different when you have a garden.

Perhaps the greatest present a boy could get on his 32nd birthday

‘Hog not included’

Subscribed! Looking forward to reading this

A pride of cats!

Or technically – as I’ve just learned – a ‘clowder’

It’s cool that Vienna and Belgrade began life as Roman settlements, when the empire used the Danube as its northern frontier.

It’s cooler that, if you look at a map today, both modern cities still mostly sit on the river's southern bank – just like the Roman sites they grew from.

And it seems like 'A Philosophy of Walking' is perhaps next...

I'm already sold!

Clash of cultures: exhibition tells story of when Vikings ruled the north of England Viking North at Yorkshire Museum features UK’s largest exhibition of Viking-age artefacts, including era’s ‘cheap’ jewellery and evidence of slave-owning

*books train to York*

*sells house*

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I feel like this should be bigger news

The Danube starting in the Black Forest and ending at the Black Sea is such a neatly-named journey.

Made even better by there being absolutely no reason for it.

Well, enjoy!

Sadly, it never seems to be available to stream. The wait goes on...

Such a brilliant show!

To this day, the wild, mountainous Highlands look and feel different to the gentle, undulating Scottish Lowlands because these lands are made of entirely different stuff.

Here, the older, harder Laurentia rock in the north met the younger, softer Avalonia to the south and gave it a good beating.

Or as geologists would say, Laurentia was ‘thrust over’ Avalonia.

Either way, the result was the Scottish Highlands.

Map of the metamorphic zones of Scotland, including a line showing the location of the Highland Boundary Fault.

As you move from the Scottish Lowlands to the Highlands, you cross the Highland Boundary Fault.

Splitting the country from coast to coast, the fault line marks where the Caledonian Orogeny happened – one of the major tectonic events that stitched Pangaea together.

Loch Ness, photographed from high ground on the loch's north shore. Beams of sunlight appear through the clouds on to part of the loch.

If you've ever been lucky enough to travel north through Scotland, you'll know that eventually, the landscape shifts into something far wilder.

It feels like the ground beneath you has changed altogether.

That's because it really has!

Incredible cover! So unique looking. Congrats!

Map of the Middle East with markers.

A 🆕 geography quiz! Can you name the bodies of water 🌊 in the Middle East 🐪 region? For example, where is the Strait of Hormuz?

Test yourself: geographyquiz.app/quiz/middle-...

#geography #quiz

Conditions were tough out there but we'll take that

It sure is, thanks Phil!

And I've recently learned that a 2025 edition was published...

I'd love to see your list of baked goods for each nation 😂

It's a great intro to geopolitics for sure.

Now I need to make time for his many other books!

Thanks, Robert!

I see what you mean!

Another that's on my 'to read' list!

That's definitely my cup of tea!

Thanks – and thanks also for the warm welcome!