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We planted lots of daffodils. I recorded over 200 kilos of bulbs and I don’t think I made a note of everything. Planting tended to be done in deteriorating weather and always to a deadline like leaving on a trip to escape the weather. Most of the planting was fairly mixed and [...]
I’ve just finished listening to Bill Bryson reading his Shakespeare book (Harper Collins Audio ISBN 978-0-00-726218-2). An easy thing to recommend. The understated comic possibilities of Bryson talking about Shakespeare are obvious. The CD version is unabridged, so the book must be good too.
Two things struck me. I mean apart from [...]
Love, we were young once, and ran races.
We kicked at stones, we fell over, we pulled faces.
This isn’t me getting maudlin. Or rather it isn’t just me getting maudlin. This is a post about the power of context.
The quote is a part of a poem by George Szirtes. You can read the [...]
This Scientfic American article, complete with improbable model, isn’t by itself very thorough or complete. But it does provide a window into a research area that I have wondered about – that of research into chronic sleep shortage.
Most people will understand about the effects of acute sleep shortage. We’ve all experienced long flights, [...]
Why are newts risible? Who decided that you can’t take an interest in newts but you have to be newt fancier? Why were we constantly reminded of Ken’s penchant for newts without being told whether Boris liked frogs? Who first used the phrase ‘as pissed as newt’? And why? Poor [...]
This is an actual forecast from the Met Office for the Highlands for last week:
Remaining unsettled throughout this period. Rather cloudy with showers merging into longer spells of rain at times.
It is the sort of forecast that makes me wonder if there is any point to forecasting. You have to become very good [...]
I’m not blogging about a piece of peer reviewed research here, but I am blogging about blogging about peer reviewed research. And if that doesn’t quite qualify me to use the logo, then I hope that this link to BPR3 does.
When I first came across the logo I thought that it was worthless because [...]