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Taxonomy By Night

Posted on January 17, 2013 by newenglandkiwi

We had a brief thaw here last week, enough to melt almost all the snow (though it was replenished quickly enough). Turns out one of the side-effects of “warm” (translation: above freezing) temperatures and low winds on an area with … Continue reading →

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Creditable

Posted on February 6, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

Yesterday we had people over for the Superbowl, because I still don’t understand very much about American football but the ceremony of the whole thing is highly entertaining (I have watched so many Republican debates I can critique the quality … Continue reading →

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Talking Turkey

Posted on November 13, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Last weekend, we went to the supermarket. There was a sale on turkeys. This is not particularly surprising, it being three weeks before Thanksgiving (our Thanksgiving plans do not include turkey, because the person probably doing the cooking laughed very … Continue reading →

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What Winning Feels Like

Posted on October 24, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Our Rugby World Cup, in this corner of the globe where they don’t care much for rugby at all, if they recognise it as anything other than the distant ancestor of American Football, turned – much to my surprise, I … Continue reading →

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Fall

Posted on October 3, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

It’s officially fall autumn dammit autumn here in New England, now the autumn equinox has been and gone. I was interested to discover the other day that I am not the only one who thinks the American season-marking system is a … Continue reading →

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One Year On

Posted on August 15, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

A year ago last Friday, I was sitting in Christchurch Cathedral, listening to Helen Clark give a talk about development in the third world. It was three days before I was due to get on a plane and leave New … Continue reading →

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Not In Kansas

Posted on June 2, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

It’s been summer-hot and dry here this last week, the sort of weather that never lasted for more than two or three days at a time back home, and it was the same yesterday morning, twenty degrees by the time … Continue reading →

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Foiled

Posted on January 7, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Newly equipped with car and spare time (I was kicked out of our lab for the first half of this week while they got rid of asbestos in the corridors, an impeccable excuse for a holiday if I ever heard … Continue reading →

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A Miss Is As Good As A Boxing Day Blizzard

Posted on January 1, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

So we definitely didn’t get a white Christmas, but only by about twenty-four hours, as the “Blizzard of 2010″ roared in on the evening of the twenty-sixth and dumped a foot or so of snow on us. It was not … Continue reading →

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Buying In

Posted on December 4, 2010 by newenglandkiwi

The week after next, Mike and I are going to be embarking on a exciting new American adventure: buying a car. This is for several reasons. The first and most important is that Mike now has a shiny new work … Continue reading →

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