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Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚

Took me quite a while to get through this one. It wasn’t that I disliked it — it’s that the format of 50 short essays about different snows around the globe lends itself to dipping in and out of the book, rather than losing yourself it.

Did I like it? Yes, I think. I need to mull it over for a while to be sure.


Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change at work again.


Online lecture mode.


I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact.

(My wife suggests there is evidence to the contrary.)


Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…


Half an hour by the sea

Chose a different spot down by the harbour arm today. I’m tucked into a wee hollow, with the structure of the arm itself sheltering me from what is a bitterly cold wind.

I’m still wearing a fleece and a gillet, though. It is bitter this afternoon. We even had a flurry of snow earlier, but I’d be amazed if we see any settle this far south.


Chillin’ by the harbour arm.


I love this time on a Wednesday.


“People claim they enjoy winter, but what they really mean is they enjoy winter as a livener, a cobweb-blower-away, a quick flirt with the elements before resorting to their real love, central heating.”

From: The Wood by John Lewis-Stempel 📚