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Every so often you come across an article that is the bomb. It asks questions you didn't even know you were asking (but you were) and is so obviously shot through with a deep understanding of debates that you barely know the names of. It casually refers to "obvious" distinctions that you would have blundered... Continue Reading →
So, I was looking for an article that explained "this is how UK climate policy has developed - here are the important policy [and other] documents, and here is how key points played out". And ... I found it. Bulkeley, H. 2015. Charting Climate Change Governance in the United Kingdom. ACCOMPLISHING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE, 24–53. Cambridge... Continue Reading →
My first decent length yomp in a month (quarantine and lockdown having slowed things down). About 15 or 16km around the city, in roughly three hours (28ish kilos in the backpack). Some photos.
So damned tired. It is hard to care, when it seems so very late, when resisting seems so very futile. This is what those determined to kill us all (they see it differently, obvs) want. They want us to desert the field. It's so much easier for them, then. There’s a quote from near the... Continue Reading →
Intentions versus self-discipline - story of my life. Almost everyone's life, I guess. The key things are to be realistic and routinised. So, I will try to do this catch up of the last few days and then do a daily blog post, because I said I wanted to, and I DID (and do) want... Continue Reading →
Before I left England, a thousand years ago, I was beginning to realise that there is a societal covid brain fog thing going on, whether you had had the damn virus or not. Everyone just getting hazy, crazy etc. Well, from that baseline, I suppose I should be compassionate towards myself, and 11 days without... Continue Reading →
It's properly Sisyphean, isn't it? Only, you don't even get the damn "thing" to the top of the hill before it rolls down again. I am writing in this context- am trying, with colleagues, to do some "services to the movement" (yes, that is as pompous as it sounds) around a) skillshare evenings where people... Continue Reading →
Was down in Bristol on Friday 15th. I lived there for three and a half years back in the second half of the '90s, before coming to the best city in the world. Here's a table of all the books I definitely didn't buy in charity shops (mostly up Stokes Croft Road), how much I... Continue Reading →
Well, the fry-up was bloody fantastic. Here's a pic. This was my reward for getting under 120kg. There's a few milestones in that. One is having lost 30kg - 20 per cent of my initial body weight (150kg in October 2019, which meant I was morbidly obese). Apparently losing 20% of your body weight is... Continue Reading →
A long long time ago (okay, 1988) I stayed at Shakespeare and Co as one of the tumbleweeds. One of my abiding memories is as pillion passenger on George Whitman's motorbike as we went to somewhere in a posh arrondisement for - well, it may have been bookbuying? Anyway, my life flashed before me once... Continue Reading →
