Tag: weather

  • Thrushes, chats and icterids; or, ice cream in the monsoon.

    (This post originally appeared in July 2012 but was lost when the server was hacked in 2015. This is a recovered version.) I woke up this morning with ‘The Emperor...

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  • My office smells

    I walked in the door of my office this morning, having trod across the Old Aberdeen landscape. Rotting leaves, frozen ponds, barking dogs. Having heaved one sack each of papers...

    By Fomenting, people, Serendipity

  • One day later

    Now that life has been rather stable for a while—we’ve been living in the same house for four years, Eleanor’s in school, and we haven’t had to negotiate burning barricades...

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  • eruptions

    Last week, Sunday 24 August, we had a gang of bairns round to test out the new trampoline. About mid-day on a hot day the shout went up: flying ants....

    By plants, Walks

  • Holi freezing heck!

    Okay: Bhavana had a great idea. Why shouldn’t the Anthropology Society, who are always up for a ritual, play Holi? The results speak for themself: see this, and this, and...

    By Events