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City Pollen: October 2009
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Sunday, 25 October 2009. But as autumn is in its glory I’ve been hankering after trees. Just round the corner from our flat is an ingenious little park, the Jardin Atlantique, built across the roof of Gare Montparnasse (a major city train station). A little marsh area rustles under the tower. On the way back today I was struck by the sunlight in these birch leaves. . While taking photos I thought I may as well take a photo of the view from another of the same roundabout’s exits. . View my complete profile.
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City Pollen: South and north
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Saturday, 8 May 2010. We just got back from a week visiting Provence and the French Mediterranean coast, landscapes very warm and seductive:. This is the view from our hotel room, but I couldn't capture the fast swifts wheeling and screeching in that sky. The Gorge of Verdon winds deep through the hills, the river so far below us it's hard to imagine how it ever ground away so much earth:. Green spring trees beside the bright blue water:. Flowered courgettes feel delicate and fleshy at once:.
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City Pollen: Waking up again
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Thursday, 22 April 2010. This blog has been sleepy since Copenhagen, so I appreciated this video-call to recover from December's disaster. It's also a nice summary of politician-speak on climate change, a kind of antidote to the dreary General Election campaigning. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Mountain Plan . com. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. The Dark Mountain Project. The Marvelous in nature.
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City Pollen: A place of safety
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Sunday, 28 February 2010. A place of safety. Reading Mark Lynas’s terrifying and vivid depiction of the future on a hotter planet, Six Degrees. I’ve been considering what children hear and think about climate change while reading Kate Thompson’s The White Horse Trick. A young adult novel. The White Horse Trick. Is the third in a trilogy and Tir na n’Óg. Is well known from Irish folklore, so Thompson did not invent the land for this purpose, but she uses it deftly. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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City Pollen: April 2010
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Thursday, 22 April 2010. This blog has been sleepy since Copenhagen, so I appreciated this video-call to recover from December's disaster. It's also a nice summary of politician-speak on climate change, a kind of antidote to the dreary General Election campaigning. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Mountain Plan . com. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. The Dark Mountain Project. The Marvelous in nature.
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City Pollen: Politics of hope
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Saturday, 8 May 2010. The fabulous Caroline Lucas thanked the voters of Brighton Pavilion for choosing 'the politics of hope' on Thursday when she became Britain's first Green MP. She will enter Parliament as the sole female leader of a British political party. Congratulations to her and to all the people who campaigned for her. Here's a video of her acceptance speech, in which we get to see her tired, emotional and very happy face at the announcement:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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City Pollen: May 2010
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Saturday, 8 May 2010. We just got back from a week visiting Provence and the French Mediterranean coast, landscapes very warm and seductive:. This is the view from our hotel room, but I couldn't capture the fast swifts wheeling and screeching in that sky. The Gorge of Verdon winds deep through the hills, the river so far below us it's hard to imagine how it ever ground away so much earth:. Green spring trees beside the bright blue water:. Flowered courgettes feel delicate and fleshy at once:. Welcome to ...
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City Pollen: A thin city
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010. Victims of the Shoah, named at the Paris Museum of the Shoah ( source. Last year I blogged about Mircea Cantor’s Monument for the end of the world. A sculpture that tries to ‘commemorate’ a future event. I asked whether cities should build monuments not just to events in their past, but to think about lives to come. In a very dark way, the Paris sirens do this. France is currently recovering from a natural disaster – the weekend’s storm. 3 March 2010 at 13:07. The Book of Barely ...
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Cycle Around Scotland: What kind of Cyclist are you?
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I'll get there eventually. Wednesday, 3 February 2010. What kind of Cyclist are you? I've been blog browsing and spotted t his one. Written by an endurance cyclist called Jill a few years ago. She's based in Alaska and cycles in some truly awe inspiring settings, her blog is well worth reading. I'll copy the post here, hopefully she'll be happy for me to do so! I'll email her just to be on the safe side. Are you a Sheepdog, Husky, Greyhound, Labrador or St Bernard? First there are commuters. The huskies,...
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Cycle Around Scotland: November 2009
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I'll get there eventually. Thursday, 5 November 2009. Changing Plans - Thanks Stirling University. Well it seems that I'm having to review my plans for next years Cycle Around Scotland AGAIN. It's going to be June at the earliest, late June at that. It just means I'll miss what is usually a fairly settled period of weather in Scotland. Mind you if Dave Gorman can complete a marathon cycle around the UK in September then I really shouldn't moan about having to do it in June! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
