Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2014

Extreme Mildness

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That's about as oxymoronic as it gets, I suspect, but in fact it fits. We are experiencing a very very weird winter. As I may have go...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Health and Safety

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One of the things that the Daily Mail reading knobheads who make up a dangerously large proportion of my countrymen moan about is "h...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Clowntime is over

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Norman Wisdom has died. One of the people who has actually made it into the blog before: http://szekely.blogspot.com/2006/02/wisdom-of-ages...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Before the fall

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It feels like summer didn't happen this year. May and June were appalling weather-wise, and I spent July and August out of the country w...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Microclimates

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I occasionally forget that I live in a microclimate. It is well known (at least within Romania) that Csikszereda is the coldest place in th...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Skistone Cops

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Last week we went skiing more or less every day. It was half term for the kids, so each day I drove them up the mountain to our local resor...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Poster boy

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A bit of a follow-up to last week's rant about Cameron and co. You too, can have fun with modifying the wild-eyed, slapheaded, "lo...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Climate, weather, and revolutions

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Happy Anniversary Today is December 16th, which means it's the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution here, which began on ...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Spring springs

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Spring made a brief appearance here back in early February, decided it didn't really like being out so early and went back in to hiberna...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

It's Global Warming Gone Mad

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Being English I have to constantly keep in check my instinctive desire/need to write and talk about the weather. I do manage it for the mos...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Fogbound

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I am fogbound in Tashkent airport (at least I am at the moment I am writing this, when and if I finally post it I won’t be, because there is...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Random thoughts

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I'm just back from England, where I attended the annual IATEFL conference in Exeter with Erika and something like 1600 other people. I...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Dubai the by

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So in a miracle of rapid reorganisation, my Afghanistan trip has been placed in Dubai. That means that not only do I have a new destination...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Transylvaniara

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When one arrives at Luton airport to take the plane to Cluj, there is no mention of the city to which the plane flies - the departure boards...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Viva Zapada

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It is snowing. It has been snowing since before we woke up. So far today (October 21st, let us not forget) we've had more snow in Csik...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Good Life

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There are days when it is very good to live in Csikszereda. That's not to say there are days when it's bad to live in Csikszereda, ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

From Székelyföld to Sheffield

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At opposite ends of Europe dramatically different weather conditions. Romania sweltered yesterday in +40° temperatures (not here as such, b...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Wednesday weak

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I have nothing much to post, except to pass on this great link to a piece about searching for painted eggs among the Ukrainian community of...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Frozen Saints

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It was cold yesterday, much colder than it has been for ages. I went out for a bike ride in the afternoon, and actually needed to work hard...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

A tale of two winters

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This time last year the temperature in Csikszereda was minus 32 . Today it reached plus 15. That's a swing of 47 degrees. (Or 85 degr...