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Thursday 29 June: Thinking about entries as and when, I decided it would be better to do a single weekly round-up, even though I may write bits of it as and when. Yesterday I started idly browsing the SLD forums and there’s certainly more than enough there to keep a faculty full of anthropologists occupied.

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Fireworks Sitting quietly geeking at my desk, 11 pm last Thursday night. It's been a quiet day, a Roman Holiday, SS Peter and Paul. We've been at work, though, because our gaff is outside Rome and has its own saints to take care of it. Boom! I've been watching season 2 of 24, and my instinct is to look butch...

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Yesterday’s Doonesbury is not funny, antibiotic resistance being one of the great unappreciated squandered commons. Well, actually it is, of course. Very. But I wonder how many people will witter on about “change within a species” and continue living a life that makes no sense except in the light of...

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Three magnolia flowers, past their best

Where does the time go? A rhetorical question, of course, designed to deflect attention from the fact that I seem to have been waiting weeks to upload some photos from a recent (ha?) return visit to the gardens at Ninfa. I’m uploading four at a time, partly to lessen the load and thus make it more...

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A bunch of Bible-toting Manitobans is [planning an attack]http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/14909435.htm on the world record for harvesting a quarter-section field of wheat.1

On one level this is pretty neat. The event is designed to raise money, which will support something ca...

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