I don’t often post about the work I do, having been jumped on from an enormously great height early on in my blogging career. Yesterday I was in Inverness presenting some work I’ve been involved in to the relevant SNH staff; this post isn’t about that work, before anyone gets excited, but is about some discussions [...]
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A bloggy good idea
Published October 10th, 2008 in Blogging, Marine biology, Scotland and Working at home. 4 CommentsTo boldly go
Published September 10th, 2008 in Boys, Marine biology, Miscellaneous stuff and School. 4 CommentsRead in younger son’s physics homework the other day: “The bench moves you fastly to the start and then slowly back through the…”
Nothing to do with hadrons or black holes, fortunately.
Me: “There’s no such word as ‘fastly’.”
Him: “Yes there is. What’s wrong with fastly?”
Me: “The word’s ‘fast’. But that doesn’t really work [...]
Not a bad day
Published September 5th, 2008 in Islands, Marine biology, Scotland and Working at home. 4 Comments
If it’s not raining in Shetland, it’s “not a bad day”. If you can see across the voe “it’s clearing up nicely”. Perhaps, then, it’s not too surprising that the lead article on the front of the Shetland Times when I was there recently was marvelling at the heat wave, with July temperatures reaching 20.8º C. [...]
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