Monthly Archives: September 2015

Last weekend was a public holiday in Canberra, officially Family and Community day but informally Fish and Chip day. We could have been like everyone else and dashed frenetically to the coast, only to find that the water was still … Continue reading →

There’s a minor spat going on over at Slate about the validity (or otherwise) of a couple in Washington state in the US who have chosen to live a late nineteenth century life eschewing modern conveniences like electricity and all … Continue reading →

There’s a long green versatile vegetable that the English call a courgette and almost everyone else calls a zucchini. If you do search for the two terms using google’s ngram viwer you can see that no one talked about them … Continue reading →