On Naming There’s a lot of variety in the fluffy white sheep milling about the fields throughout Britain. There are distinct breeds, and then there are the mules – crosses developed to match the best qualities from two or more breeds. Their names often tell you something about their origins – Border Leicesters, LincolnContinueContinue reading “Diary 4.0”
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Diary 3.0
The Temple of Dendur I was listening to The Memory Palace podcast talking about the Temple of Dendur. I’ve never been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, nor heard of the temple, before but a line stuck out about the prominence that a fairly minor Egyptian building now has in one of the world’s majorContinueContinue reading “Diary 3.0”
Diary 2.0
On The Road The boy and I took a road trip, a couple of weeks ago, up to Glasgow. After school we shot off to the airport. We went to see the filming of next years Robot Wars. I hadn’t realised that the show had been rebooted, but we started watching this year and quicklyContinueContinue reading “Diary 2.0”
Diary v1.0
Fireflies two or three Something I have attempted to develop over the last few years, with limited success, is a habit of writing – getting used to writing regularly and as a matter of routine, with the goal of making more serious writing projects less imposing. It’s one of the purposes of blogging, if notContinueContinue reading “Diary v1.0”
The second post I had been intending to write started off as a paean to the hawthorn trees blossoming in the fields last spring. Then, as time passed and I failed to get around to it, I had to rethink it to include the rowan blossom, the heather, and then more. The Japanese pay closeContinueContinue reading
I’ve had two posts in my head now for so long that the passage of time has changed their meaning quite significantly. The first one was a post about podcasts. It was inspired by Serial, the series that launched a thousand podcasts and that showed that serious investigative journalism and public concentration spans are perhapsContinueContinue reading
On the road again
I got off the Shinkansen in Shin-Aomori, and down onto the local train to make the ride into the city proper. The new train was packed, and trundled, barely breaking a walking pace into Aomori station proper, through what seemed to be disused car parks and people’s backyards. Off the train, there was an immediateContinueContinue reading “On the road again”
Holidays
We have just come back from a week in Devon, in Ottery St. Mary. From the name, I was expecting a tiny hamlet, but it turns out to be a decent sized town. As it happens, I knew of Ottery St Mary before we went, not only from the signs on the A30, but asContinueContinue reading “Holidays”
Fireflies 