Completely off-topic but I had to share this one 🙂 It’s another bread recipe – I had a day’s leave before we left on this trip (I might share some photos if I can work them into a story somehow) & spent part of the morning trying out that bread book again (Ingram & Shapter, […]
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a brief hiatus
Just letting you know that I won’t be monitoring the blog for the next few days – my Significant Other & I will be spending 4 days on a desert island. Well, an island. A tropical island. Where there may not be net access & even if there is, using it could prove to be […]
Continue readingone for the physicists
For those interested in physics, my friend Marcus Wilson has recently started a blog on the subject: Physics Stop. Luging, the Large Hadron Collider, Star Trek transporter beams – all this & more. And his door’s always open to visitors 🙂
Continue readingphew! I’m glad that’s over!
I’ve just finished chairing the examiners’ meeting that finalises grades for students in our School. (For those who might think that uni lecturers have nothing to do once the students have left – forgeddit! This is the time when we: finish exam-related admin, work with grad students, prepare for next year’s teaching, write papers, do […]
Continue readinga wordle for my blog
A while back Ken gave a link to wordle, a rather neat site where you can build a word image for a piece of text or the content of a web page. I’ve just revisited and got a wordle for the last few posts here: I like wordle 🙂
Continue readingit’s different at uni
I know that if you’ve finished, or have almost finished, your NCEA exams, probably the last thing you are thinking about is university study! More likely, a relaxing break is foremost in your mind 🙂 (Mine too, actually…) But I was talking this morning with colleagues about how different university is from school for many […]
Continue readingwhy don’t big dogs live so long?
Yesterday, for the first time in more than 14 years, I went for a long walk by the river without my dog Bella. These days she’s still keen to go for a walk – but it’s more like an amble. A v-e-r-y s-l-o-w amble. And after 2-3 km that’s it for the day. Her age […]
Continue readinglazy sunday
I feel lazy today. I could review a paper for you… Or – I could share something completely off-topic!
Continue readingr.i.p. milo
This is totally off my usual topics, but I’m not really in the mood for a proper blog today – I’ve just got back from taking our oldest cat, Milo, on a one-way trip to our vet.
Continue readingblog readability
I thought it was time to check my readability once more – looks like I could slip in a few polysyllabics now & again 🙂 blog readability test
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