Entries from August 2009

10 August 2009

Illiterature

Love it or (more often) hate it, poorly formulated and mindnumbingly trivial quizzes are an everyday feature of the Facebook world. This particular description of someone’s quiz result, I think, really takes the biscuit.
I just love the way it on the one hand purports to shed light on literary talent while suggesting that attention to [...]

10 August 2009

Cycles of nature

A long and rambling account of a bike tour I did – it is mainly intended as a personal log and probably only of interest to anyone else if you like cycling, are a map nerd or are interested in this area and in the very diverse range of flora / seasonal produce it offers. [...]