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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Books, naturalists, and footnotes

Saturday, July 31, 2010

The latest TLS has a nice review, by Jim Endersby, of a book they call Books and Naturalists, and which LibraryThing calls Nature Publishing in Britain (the latter title wouldn’t have caught my eye quite so effectively, I have to say).1 Packed into the half-page review are several moments of quality comedy. We learn of [...]

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Breakfast in Tübingen

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Last weekend I was in Tübingen for a wedding.1 We hit on a great solution for the extraordinarily hot weather: The chappy on the right is my ex-officemate and ex-yoga-teacher, whose place I was staying at. Beside him his girlfriend, and the other two are flatmates. Notes:I failed to take any good wedding shots; haven’t [...]

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Musical instrument auction

Monday, July 5, 2010

We spent a weekend in Bath recently. Among other attractions of the area, it turns out there is a quarterly auction of musical instruments quite close by. This trip didn’t synchronise, but I’ve been browsing the catalogues of previous auctions to see if it’s worth trying to be there at the right time next year. [...]

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Another reason I hate Facebook

Monday, July 5, 2010

So someone asked to be Facebook friends with a message saying they read and enjoy this blog. Great!1 Only, I pretty much hate Facebook and wish I didn’t have to be there (to keep up with a few family and friends who aren’t online anywhere else). All my Bookface “friends” I’ve met face-to-face, and there [...]

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London infested with feral pigs

Friday, July 2, 2010

In the fourteenth century, that is. I’m reading The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, which is turning out much better than its title would suggest. The gimmick is to try to bring the period to life by focusing on the things we would be confused or puzzled by, whether because our stereotypes are off-beam [...]

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