In his little piece Mountaineering as a Life Style Danish mountaineer Jan Elleby answers the question why climb mountains? with this:
Curiously enough this question is only posed by people, who have not climbed any mountains themselves. For if you by yourself have experienced the adventures and quality in life that mountaneering may offer you, then [...]
My work mates, and various TV people, have been worrying about the freak weather. Snow in March! The world’s heading for catastrophe! Here’s an example from the blogosphere, and here’s a Times article that quotes the MD of the Lecht Ski Centre in the Cairngorms as saying “…we have had more snow in March than [...]
Had my first ever saxophone lesson today. It’s about time, seeing as how I’ve had the sax for something approaching 10 years. I have never stuck at practise for very long, and have forgotten most of what little I learned on those occasions, so lessons are the obvious solution, mainly for structuring, disciplining and motivating [...]
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Most people have wondered what their dreams mean, or if they have any meaning at all. It all comes down to the question why do we dream?
I read an article recently that claimed that the purpose of dreams is to reorder our model of the external world, to tidy it up, assimilating and filing our [...]
It hadn’t occurred to me that savouriness was an identifiable taste that savoury foods had in common. Professor Kikunae Ikeda was led to the discovery of glutamate, and the invention of monosodium glutamate, by the idea that foods that are not sweet, sour, bitter or salty actually share another taste: savouriness, or umami. He said:
There [...]
I’m annoyed. Stu and I blithely assumed that we could tackle Stob Ghabhar (something like Stob Goor) on the Blackmount tomorrow. Got myself some trousers in Black’s at lunchtime but it wasn’t until I was back at work that the need for gaiters hit me, so Ann and I went to Tiso after work. Though [...]
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Is there a connection between principled vegetarianism and ghoulishness? An obscure example is the vegan grindcore band Carcass (defunct many moons ago I think). And as an obscure example perhaps it’s inadmissable. But no, I present Carcass here as the apogee of this disposition and the perfect illustration of this idea, [...]
Don’t get me wrong: my lovely Moleskine notebooks can never be replaced. For anyone out there, I ended up starting this blog while I was looking around the web for the best way of satisfying a suddenly-felt need: an online jotter, for private use. And here we are.
