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Bossy three-year-olds
A three-year-old is an entertaining beast. Our three-year-old always seems to be ordering us about. Here are some of these orders. To Daniel: * Hurry up Daniel or you’ll be late for school! * Don’t run...
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Art and nature
Does the natural world have value in addition to monetary value? The Great Barrier Reef generates more than $5 billion per year to the Australian economy and about 63,000 jobs. Surely that’s worth...
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The case for a Sovereign Wealth Fund
I’ve been wanting to write about this for sometime and now seems like an appropriate one with Australians looking like they’re about to elect an anti-science government determined to dig up every last...
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Online shopping in the UK
Yesterday I ordered some groceries online. I thought I had ordered 1kg of carrots and 1kg of bananas. What I got instead was a single carrot in a bag and a single banana in another bag. This is one of...
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Recipe for Lebkuchen
This is a reblog of an old post of mine. It’s a recipe for lebkuchen which is a very delicious German treat eaten over the Christmas season. I usually make it every year but this year I’ve adopted the...
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My Granny
I am in Scotland and so I was going to write about some of the things I have seen but I have just learnt that my grandmother died in the early hours of this morning Australian time, and so this post is...
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MikeM
Ben’s father died last night. He was only 72. I was very fond of him. I don’t think many can say they are as fond of their father-in-law as I was of mine. He always treated me well and was very...
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MikeM – part 2
As a sort of follow-on to my last post about the death of my father-in-law, I want to post this obituary which was written by him for his own father in 1990. Apparently the newspaper was reluctant to...
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Is climate change responsible for recent flooding in the UK?
I’m not going to answer this question because I can’t but you can help to answer another question which is has climate change made extremely wet winters like the last in the UK more likely? Oxford...
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Crop yields expected to decline earlier than previously thought
For me, the security of our food supply is one of the most significant of all the climate change impacts. Food shortages lead to famine which leads to mass migration and conflict. It is therefore...
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Happy Easter everyone!
My Dad is visiting us for the weekend. Whenever he comes, we seem to end up visiting Bunnings – a mega hardware store – numerous times. Bunnings is Dad’s temple and since I’ve always got a list of jobs...
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The stay-at-home parent and the working parent
I love my job. It’s so fulfilling being able to help people with their websites and most users are profoundly grateful for the support. I also feel privileged to have this little window into their...
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Scotland, here we come!
A couple of weeks ago we sent off our visa applications for the UK. They had to be sent to Manilla for processing along with all our passports, including old ones, and original birth certificates for...
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People’s Climate March
Rachel M:This is a bit odd. I’m reblogging a post I wrote on someone else’s blog onto my own blog. Is that odd? I think it is :) I sometimes get the privilege of publishing a guest post on the ...and...
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Science is not a pick and mix
Potholer54 has a another brilliant YouTube video called How to Argue with Assholes. It’s entertaining and clever and provides some good advice when faced with arguments that, in his words, make you...
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Guy Fawkes night
We went to a terrific Guy Fawkes night celebration recently. It was organised by our local community who used it as an opportunity to fundraise for a community garden in the area. They took donations...
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Scottish schooling
Perhaps it’s too soon to give my impressions of Scottish schooling as the kids have only been at school for about a month but I’m going to do it anyway. My first impressions are wonderful. I can’t...
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Testing mistake again
Sorry, I was just testing the reblog feature in the WordPress app and the post went to this site instead of my test site. So please ignore the last email notification if you got one.
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A Christmas dinner in Keswick
One of the benefits of living in the UK is that I’m not the only Automattician in the country. Why is this good? Because it means I get to go to a work Christmas dinner and that’s exactly what I did...
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An old photo
I came across this old photo of Elizabeth and Ben, taken by Ben’s mum just after Elizabeth had turned 2. It’s such a great photo that I wanted to share it again. Elizabeth is wearing a washable nappy....
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