I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.