Ben Green

Dear @LittleBrownUK Your paperback copy of Instructions in Gardening for Ladies that I just bought off Amazon is only the first 6 chapters (of 12). Is this a deliberate con job?

If I say Khaby Lahme is Swifty Frisko, and you get one of the references, please let me know. If you get both of them, AND you agree with me, we should totally do a marriage.

Some might say this sounds unlikely

Desert Island Discs - @KemiBadenoch on @BBCRadio4 says her dad bought her a ZX81 when she was 7. Poor thing. Two years after the Apple Macintosh (the year after Aldus Pagemaker) and in the year of the Intel 80386 and the Acorn, after her dad bought her a 6 year old 1kB machine

The pigs are fine, thanks for asking! It’s muddy as you like down there and they’re thrilled.

No grand adventures this week. Just laundry, reading, and planning some British Christmas food traditions and a Christmas nook Peak December contentment.

An off gird life should be as rich and full as an on grid one. Energy consumption is not at all bad. It just needs to be 100% sustainable. thebarracks.substack.com/p/kw-51-a-chri…

Next week, the winter equinox. Days get longer, but the temperatures drop. For all who would rather hibernate, come and join me!

December at the Barracks Me: tidying, sawing wood, dreaming of British Christmas desserts Weather: murky grey soup (with occasional blue-sky grace) Pigs: sleeping & eating (as usual) Good enough.

For the first time ever, my firewood stack is aesthetic as heck. New sawhorse = woodworking triumph and winter feels manageable. More quiet victories every week in the newsletter. thebarracks.substack.com/p/kw-51-a-chri…

In Eastern Germany’s Fog News this week: not excessively cold, but deeply unpleasant outside. It’s warm by my stove. Come for stories, stay for firewood aesthetics. thebarracks.substack.com/p/kw-51-a-chri…

In the BRAT diet (for dodgy antibiotic- laden tummies), you can replace the rice with peeled potatoes, but I would never peel a potato! thebarracks.substack.com/p/kw-51-a-chri…

I used to hand-wash clothes for years. Since I hooked the washing machine and the water pumps up to the solar batteries, life got better!

@awkwardgoogle It's one of the greatest flirts ever seen over a chessboard!

Can someone explain to me what just happened?

Pennsylvania Energy 'n Innovation Summit. Really? PEnIS? #MAGA

Pirate Ben's Collapse Lab at The Barracks wix.to/SJsn04w

@NoContextBrits covfefe

I really have done 200 weeks of The Book of the Barracks. To celebrate, here I am being a bit grumpy thebarracks.substack.com/p/kw-21-chapte…

Nah, I'm being a bit mean. He has an excellent vocabulary, but the accent and grammar is .... a little ouchie.. :D

Interesting interview with Alastair Campbell @campbellclaret . His German is exactly as good as I expected it to be :) deutschlandfunk.de/interview-der-…