Category: glaikit

  • Bats in motion

    This morning’s trawl of news items about bats turned up a wonderful article in Science News reporting on work by T Kunz on how bats use their wings to move....

    By animals, glaikit, natural history, research

  • Studentisms

    Okay, okay, I know everyone does these, but mine are much funnier mistakes. On the left, what the student wrote. On the right, the correct word. ‘rest bite’                respite ‘peat bog’                pīṭha

    By glaikit

  • Bad publicity, confused gender.

    Well, it had to happen. Here’s the blurb for a film in which a Yeti is the horror interest. Probably a male monster. Contrast this to Herge’s poignantly misunderstood beast...

    By animals, Fomenting, glaikit, Himalayas

  • Acquainted things have happened

    Well, I’ve hauled the bedraggled blog from Blogger to WordPress. Why, exactly, is not quite clear to me; one of those fretful decisions arrived at through an accumulation of tiny...

    By animals, glaikit, people, Serendipity