History in real-time. Monday 2020/6/01 I’ve been in my current job 11 years today. I’ve mostly worked on the REF case study today. Spent the day blocking adverts on Twitter and processed images of the moon taken a few days ago. Probably the last of the astro images for a while, as the nights are …
Category Archives: Rivers & streams
An early awakening
Around 5:30 this morning I was rudely awoken from odd dreams about plastic jewellery by loud voices outside my window. Looking out, this was the scene that greeted me. The pipe was happily disgorging hundreds of liters of water per minute, washing away the sub-surface of the road. The water carried the mud and silt …
QMUL Canalside
Some recent photographs from the Regent’s Canal as it passes though the QMUL campus. There were several of these grasshoppers chirping away, trying to find a mate. They were very approachable, not vanishing just as the shutter clicks. Common species, both male and female have short front wings and no hind wings.
Dead.
Dead; not my corner of the internet – this is just pining for the fjords, but my poor walking boots. A couple of thousand miles. Five countries. Three-and-a-bit years. Three mountain ranges. Two continents. One dead pair of walking boots. Spending the Royal Wedding bank holiday wandering around the Scottish Highlands including Ben Nevis finally …
Traffic & Wantz
So yesterday Diamond Geezer posted a list of ‘blogs that link to his, affable-lurking being among those listed and close to the start of the list (alphabetical order rather than a top ten list or anything). I thought I’d investigate if this drove any traffic towards my little corner of the internet. Basically, the answer …