“Is it summer today?”“Can we go swimming today?”“I want to go to the beach!”
Until last weekend, our kids had had to make do with hosing each other down on the balcony when they got too hot. But there was no denying it last week that summer was finally here.
And when Rome gets hot, Romans go […]
Today’s post is in Preston.
Editing technical documents occasionally (very occasionally) produces some chuckles, especially if you have a sense of humour in arrested development:
Instrumentation for bottom characterizationGrabs and cores provide quantitative samples, but are not suitable for patchy distributed fauna of low abundance. Cameras are the only sampling method used on rough bottoms.
Section 3 promises an exposure of
Otter trawling […]
When you first enter the shop, the smell of cheese and ham is overpowering.
Volpetti’s: probably the best deli in Rome; definitely one of the main reasons we’re still here, particularly since it’s only a ten-minute walk from our house. We eat at their self-service restaurant, Volpetti più, at least once a week. So after almost […]
I’m co-blogsitting for Tim while he’s on holiday, so today’s post is here.
Coblogsitting - I’m going to add that to Neolang.
Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Currently resident in Dakar, Senegal.
Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.
...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.
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