• The shortest day, the longest night.

  21/12/2013

  Today is the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice takes place at 5.11 pm today.

  Please have your gongs, whistles and drums at the ready for the moment.

  

  Photo credit – Andreas Krappweis

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  22/09/2007

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• On the bridge of my nose

  21/09/2007

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• PM at PQ

  21/09/2007

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• Computer afternoon

  18/09/2007

  In mild frustration at my new prescription swimming goggles arriving on an afternoon when the pond is designated as women only, I turned to matters of information technology. Now for some time, the computer has been held together with bits of string inside, to which blu-tac was added recently. Indeed, it had getting so hot…