Author Archives: essiep

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Posted on by
Reply
Cold air approaching, 12°C & dropping. Smells of rain.

Spammers are truly insane, these all claim to be from the Inland revenue. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Education “Split” on the theme of the great divide in Education: BBC. Can’t wait for some presentation on this idea in our school. My questions are ready. The problem with the article is this: We are successful in moving students from poor areas into University, they are ‘improving their lot’ and is it any surprise that the average IQ in those areas is decreasing. take out the bright ones, and the proportion of thick people increases in an area. that is no failure of education, quite the opposite.

Maybe Aspen

Posted on by
Reply
14°C, grey, mizzle

How dull misty wet, it’s dripping from every free standing object. I want to be westwards.

Perhaps Rosie is appreciating her sheep-effect rug more than that canine-jumper. Tasteful huh?

Revenge of the Lawn

Posted on by
4
19°C, warm rain.

A utilitarian choice of read. Bedtime is time for a short read for me. It has ot be short because lying down makes me fall asleep- even in daytime. This book is full of short stories, I say it like that because there are so many of them in a thin book. One of them is only a few lines long. It’s nice to just to read his voice, though often the stories hold a pang of some sort that only Brautigan can reach in my (limited) experience.

Succession (contingent upon)

Posted on by
Reply
15°C, clear, minimal breeze

Secession: could this be the word I am looking for? We need (as you know from previous posts on here) a word for the process of  nature reclaiming derelict man-made sites.

this Beech is watching you from Beaudesert.

On second thoughts, Succession is pretty close to the idea I had in mind, see here: Wiki

Seaside-gulls are inland

Posted on by
Reply
15°C, winds brewing

Have the gulls moved away from the seas. There are plenty here, mostly the usual inland landfill-site-gulls, but now there are a few sea gull making the seaside gull sound. Maybe there is some truth in the story that they fly inland to escape the big storms out at sea. There is a big low system bearing down the northern approaches.

Central heating day

Posted on by
3
15°C, cooler, but the sun is still colourful

NEWS: "People don’t wear clothing to keep warm any more".
This rings true, and has been a cause of friction in this house over the years. It strikes me as obscene to switch the house heating on before you have started to add layers of clothes to keep warm. Today is supposedly "Central heating day". Sounds like media nonsense to me, but I have known this happen. Can’t forsee switching on until after October though.

longer is easier

Posted on by
Reply
17°C, brightening

Made it half-way home before remembering something left behind. The ride back then added 8 miles to the total journey. But contrary to expectation that made the ride home easier. It’s all about the benefits of a good warm up. I can only conclude that cycling to work would be easier if work was further away.
Morning briefing & a bit of assembly.

Cadair instead

Posted on by
Reply
15°C, dry, light cloud NW

Interesting, interesting days.

Went to Cadair Idris instead. I’ll be going through every step of this weekend in my head in my head over the next week.
Ask me when you see me.

Cloudbase

Posted on by
Reply
15°C, light clouds

Planning another jaunt to Wales this time without Rosie, that means Tryfan is a possible climb, but not going if the cloudbase is less than 2,000ft. Otherwise it’s Rhinog Fawr.

Viewed from Rhinog Fach. I don’t know how I am going to approach this one yet. Wish me luck.