Monthly Archives: June 2016

WINTER THINGS

A day of dramatic clouds, rain showers, shafts of bright sunlight, hail, wind, quiet lulls of no weather at all, vast rainbows and then more rain. The coldest day for four years. And the shortest day, too. Walking down into … Continue reading

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DAUGHTERS OF EVE

“DNA Nation”, a 3-part series on SBS TV, followed Ernie Dingo, Ian Thorpe and Julia Zmiro as, using DNA mapping of human populations, they discovered the paths taken by their ancestors out of Africa. Last weekend, I watched the last … Continue reading

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FUNGI WEATHER

The illustration by Rose Ellenby (note the skull and crossbones!) and cover art are from a King Penguin, Poisonous Fungi by John Ramsbottom, Penguin, Harmondsworth 1945. And another fungi poem… This is an excerpt fromĀ  Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath, first … Continue reading

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