For some time now my podcasts have benefited from a semi-automatic transcript produced with the help of Sonix.ai. It is a paid service, but not all that expensive, and has the great advantage that it is very easy to correct the output because it has a nifty built-in player that will let me listen to...

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The quarter of the car.

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Thomas J Bevan complains that people no longer stroll. The need to keep abreast of phones, pump audio into their ears, and count steps, he says, makes people “pollute their potentially edifying walks”. In sum, for Bevan walking is not an activity, not something to be doing, it is simply being.

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Priority task after coming home from a long spell away is always to take care of my microbial friends. The 100% hydration bread starter came back to life just fine. The kefir will have to wait till tomorrow and the 75% hydration wholemeal a little longer still. The yoghurt I did yesterday, and was g...

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After the heat of August, a totally cool month in more ways than one. Way up north in Northern Ireland staying in a lovely, warm and comfortable house about 100 metres from a huge great strand. People said, what for? Because we could, and it turned out to be a much better time that passed much more rapidly than I could ever have imagined.

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