Post 11/2022 Friday 11 March , , , Let's get some meat on the alphabetical bones of this series of 13 blogs, AB-YZ, from Cornwall. For G, I've selected Gad Fly: "A general name for the blood-sucking tabanid flies, apparently a misnomer, because the flies that actually cause cattle to gad about madly with tails …
Cornwall Cogitation E-F
Post 10/2022 Saturday 5 March . . . There's only one real topic these days--the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia's president has unleashed a full scale attack on a modern democratic nation. The aggressor's tactics belong to an outdated past, not the 21st century. It's an affront to civilized society, a society that calls for …
Cornwall Cogitation Week CD
Post 9/2022 Saturday 26 February . . . Week CD simply means this is blog number two from Cornwall UK; number two of a total of 13 anticipated posts during our stay here. I hope this doubled-up walk through the English alphabet does not prove too confusing. Next time: EF. Enough of that. This week …
Cornwall Cogitation AB
Post 8/2022 Friday 18 February / Cornwall Cogitation AB . . . What's with the AB? By combining two alphabetical letters in order, I can cover 13 blogs during our time in County Cornwall, UK. That's AB, CD . . . YZ. An alphabet's worth of Cornwall Cogitations. What's with cogitations? Roughly, that's to think …
Cornwall ahead
Post 7/2022 Saturday 12 February . . . Are we there yet? Physically, no. Imaginatively, yes. The Lord willing, I'll be posting next week's blog from St Ives/Carbis Bay, County Cornwall, UK (also known as the Duchy of Cornwall, after the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, currently Prince Charles and Camilla). We eagerly anticipate our …
Rain, heavy snowfall, strong wind, sun
Post 6/2022 Saturday 5 February . . . The weather this week brought out the best in meteorologists. "Stay home," they said, assuring viewers that a big storm, lasting two days, was indeed on its way. We ventured out for a short walk during the storm on Wednesday, day 1. On Thursday we stayed in. …
A lesson from history
Post 5/2022 Saturday 29 January . . . The bubonic plague that spread through Europe in the Middle Ages left people perplexed, frenzied, unable to stop it. Plague doctors were hired to treat patients with a variety of concoctions and plague antidotes, write wills and fill out autopsy reports. They wore a beak-like mask stuffed …
Doorsteps beyond
Post 4/2022 Saturday 22 January . . . Need an escape? If you’re in the grips of winter, this escape will land you in summer in the southern hemisphere. But you really can't get there. In person, that is. By the time you'd get to the land of constant sunlight, summer would have passed. I'm …
First sleep, Watch, second sleep
Post 3/2022 Saturday 15 January . . . To bed at 10pm, up at midnight, then back to sleep. If that's you, you're in good company. Ancient company. The company of our pre-industrial era ancestors, who, inexplicably to our modern minds, shared a bed and kept a midnight watch. This custom from the past left …
Hail to winter hereabouts
Post 2/2022 Saturday 8 January . . . Up and down. That's a non-weather forecaster's descriptor for winter temperatures hereabouts in northern Indiana. Early in the week we had good days for walks, however since Wednesday it has been too cold (as in subzero temperatures) to face the elements for any extended time. Today we …
It's About Now 