The Last Debauch

Elizabeth Cotten playing banjo for a segment in a TV series. (1985)

Song is called Georgie Buck, which is an old traditional folk tune. She was around 92 years old when this was recorded.

of critters in clover

And there are definitely a lot of gory deaths in combat, no one is ever dying in camp from disease (who is a named character we're supposed to care about). I get that no one wants a book about fatigue duty in an armed camp, but I LOVE Major Hogan for dressing down Sharpe when he thinks he's above such menial tasks:

Case in point, the US side of Niagara Falls lit up for the 4th of July:

"oh, create a sense of place and the passage of time, don't just arbitrarily move plot forward by switching perspectives with no grounding details to indicate when the scene is taking place"

Not all writing advice is for everyone. Don't tell me what to do.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.