A fairly short chunk of the path; I was intending to go a bit further, but the sun went in and I wasn’t really enjoying it much so I hopped on the tube at Westminster. Still, if you use one of the traditional definitions of a city—a town with a cathedral—this section includes the three [...]
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Hay fever and climate change
9 February 2008 – 10:26 am
Last year on 28th February I wrote this:
Last year it wasn’t until March 12th that I complained about hay fever. Nearly two weeks earlier, this year.
Well, it’s only the 9th, and my eyes have been painfully sore for days. Because of these little buggers I took a picture of yesterday:
It’s not really fair to make [...]
Epistem [ornith] ology
28 March 2007 – 12:06 pm
I went for a walk in the local woods a couple of days ago, and forgot to take my binoculars because in my head I wasn’t birding, I was just going out to enjoy the spring sunshine. That’s silly, of course; its not something you can turn off. Even if I’m in central London, there’s [...]
pelted with cast off shoon
20 March 2007 – 5:04 pm
What wrong with this picture?
Answer: the time of year it was taken. Snow is all very well in its way, but I’m about ready for Spring now, thank you.
That time of year again
28 February 2007 – 9:19 am
Last year it wasn’t until March 12th that I complained about hay fever. Nearly two weeks earlier, this year. Could be global warming; more likely just me being more irritable.
Amusing bonus bit of web 2.0 gimmickry: you can see the culprits here.
Spring is sprung
12 March 2006 – 5:19 pm
I can tell that spring is here because my eyes have started itching like crazy. These are the culprits, hazel catkins:
picture from Flickr, © ‘Nunns’
It always seems unfair when my hay-fever gets going and the weather is still cold and miserable. Spring is definitely coming, though. It may still be cold and grey, but there [...]