Historical index of all blog posts

2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016

2024 (1)

• 20/07 A lot has happened again and I’m back again

2023 (1)

• 06/08 A lot has happened … back in my eyrie again

2022 (3)

• 12/09 Email to Adam Forman … which became a blog post!
• 20/03 Being an artisan researcher
• 13/02 Icicles (again)

2021 (12)

• 25/10 A glorious sunset cloud … saying farewell
• 03/10 New trees: but will they survive?
• 25/09 Atmospheric perspective, a rainbow and an eagle
• 19/09 First overnight snow of the autumn
• 14/09 Another little post: glider with an outboard motor
• 07/09 Just one P: parapente
• 04/09 I could do with a purple patch!
• 28/08 Fin de saison
• 15/08 Squatting (with my coffee)
• 30/07 UN International Day of Friendship
• 19/07 A new start?
• 09/02 2020/2021: looking backward and forward

2020 (10)

• 29/09 Snow!
• 07/07 My eyrie, selfies, skies and work!
• 13/06 Helicopter!
• 19/05 One year on – not!
• 05/05 Social distance … what’s worth …?
• 27/04 Life in strange times
• 13/04 I fled Toulouse for the Alps
• 03/03 Bad art? Le capitole de Toulouse
• 29/02 Walking to the Garonne … and down memory lane
• 23/02 Walking round with my camera

2019 (13)

• 15/12 Houston, we may not be back for Xmas
• 13/12 A three week vow of silence about UK politics
• 10/12 Sing for shelter
• 24/11 Marks in the snow
• 21/11 Just going out for some milk …
• 16/11 Icicles, snow and freedom
• 05/11 Snow in different lights 5.xi.19
• 03/11 Snow has dropped in
• 27/10 Aime2000: my strange home in the Alps!
• 23/10 Just ‘cos it’s beautiful!
• 19/10 Glorious early morning sun (and photography)
• 16/08 Settling into my eyrie … and a cycle ride
• 04/08 Nearly eight months on and I restart

2018 (26)

• 08/12 Tracks in the snow and making tracks back to the UK
• 19/11 Someone switched the snow blowers on!
• 11/11 Being clinically retired but not watching day time TV yet!
• 06/11 What does it mean to be a “clinical researcher” not “researcher”
• 06/11 Watching clouds, weather and snow
• 03/11 Realising that I’m a (retired clinical) researcher, not an amateur statistician
• 28/07 The highs and lows of watching the greatest lunar eclipse I’ll ever see!
• 22/07 My first near visitors: 18.vii.18 … cycling and isolation/loneliness
• 22/07 Back in Aime 2000: this week and looking forward
• 03/07 Aime to London, London to Amsterdam, Amsterdam back to London, and more to come
• 23/06 Semigration stocktake 1 continued
• 23/06 Cerise and I go exploring
• 23/06 Semigration stocktake 1
• 16/06 Yesterday’s big, bike related, hike
• 14/06 Life at 2000m: settling in
• 12/06 The semigration has finally started: transition
• 06/06 Frames and cages (and Malta, part one)
• 23/05 GDPR compliance and a gull!
• 22/05 A surreal Brexit/semigration experience
• 08/05 Visiting the Garden of Cosmic Speculation
• 30/04 But what do you DO? Is it still CORE? Well yes, partly …
• 20/04 “Semigrating” to France
• 18/03 A greater spotted woodpecker on the peanut feeder: bliss!
• 12/01 “Don’t fence me in”
• 08/01 Internal (neurotic? psychotic?) insecurities and the appeal of maths
• 02/01 Reviewing 2017 and resolutions for 2018

2017 (29)

• 14/09 A lot has been happening in the last week, in the last year …
• 10/09 A year ago today I made it into Compostella
• 03/09 Much ado about … Tourette’s syndrome and other things at the Globe
• 31/08 I missed Toto’s first birthday but discover that I’m dilatanty
• 28/08 Bank holiday weekend
• 25/08 I must stop wittering about IT and hard/sofware: wetware rules!
• 24/08 Inching forward in the cybersphere … is very distracting
• 23/08 Rejoining the journey
• 15/08 Going further off piste, with detours to Leicester and Durham
• 13/08 Going a little bit off piste
• 12/08 This really is taking a turn into kaleidoscopic time: yesterday, today, 11&12/8/16 …
• 11/08 Day eleven was Blois to Bréhémont, quick reflections in 2017
• 10/08 Day nine: Chartres to Blois
• 09/08 Last year was a rest day in brilliant sunshine, this year was not that!
• 08/08 Day seven last year was Giverny to Chartres … and today …
• 07/08 Day six was Beauvais to Giverny (and a nod to Albania)
• 06/08 Day five was Amiens to Beauvais … and today
• 05/08 Day four: playing with maps
• 04/08 Revisiting and the present day: France, London and Japan (well Hokusai)
• 03/08 Revisiting the pilgrimage a year on: day two
• 02/08 Revisiting the pilgrimage a year on: Tuesday 2/8/16. South London to Doddington.
• 31/07 Culture change, and cycling provision as an example
• 28/07 One year on and where am I?!
• 17/06 Hoping for a new political climate and new priorities
• 13/06 Just a short post to reassure myself I still can: robins
• 03/05 Canaries, clean air and freedom
• 07/02 Superbowl
• 03/02 Last Monday night: another protest and it goes on
• 01/02 I’m protesting again: trying to turn anger and disgust to constructive fuel

2016 (48)

• 14/12 Reactions to Tirana (and Albania)
• 10/12 Moving from clouds, and through clouds, to psychotherapy research
• 05/12 A cold weather funnel cloud in Tirana
• 30/11 A very short post to show myself I still can: in praise of repairs!
• 03/10 “We’re not in mainland Europe any more Toto” continued, with some TARDIS cheating
• 03/10 Unpacking Toto and bird pleasures
• 03/10 In which Toto and I do London!
• 19/09 How to move on while losing as little as possible?
• 12/09 Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (II) today
• 12/09 Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (I) yesterday
• 12/09 In which Eeyore, a.k.a. the yellow man, gets yet more names, including “camino angel”!
• 11/09 People along the way
• 11/09 Just when they/he thought it was all over …
• 10/09 A bit more about this final day/leg
• 10/09 I’ve made it (to Compostela)!
• 10/09 I owe Meli[d|t]e a quick post on how it capped off a day of two halves yesterday
• 09/09 The yellow man has (nearly) caught the last bus home
• 08/09 Oh boy was this a tough day: had to get off and push!
• 07/09 Moving onward: Uncertainty and using data coherently
• 07/09 FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) – take 2
• 07/09 7/9/16 and (Spanish) lunch time in Villafranco del Berzo
• 06/09 6/9/16: last day before the real climbing starts again
• 06/09 Newsflash: just been joined by a bat!
• 05/09 Ran out of time to put anything much here for today (5/9/16) but a good day!
• 04/09 It’s been a tough but good day (4/9/16)
• 04/09 Thoughts as I cycle: fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)
• 04/09 And this was how 3/9/16 ended: Spanish café culture
• 03/09 Another day coming to an end (3/9/16)
• 03/09 Going back a day: finishing the photo cartoon of 2/9/16
• 03/09 A photo cartoon of yesterday (2/9/16)
• 03/09 Updating my maps
• 01/09 A pictorial trip through today (and evidence that doping in Camino cycling is not over)
• 01/09 A simple travel post for a change
• 31/08 I woke at about 02.15 last night and couldn’t sleep …
• 30/08 My bike has a name! Oh, a bit about leaving the NHS at last
• 29/08 Why do this? Part 2: the pilgrimage
• 27/08 My last rambling post for today: road surfaces and tree root ruckling
• 27/08 Roadkill, roadcrud and roadsplat
• 27/08 123456789=!”£$%^&*(+asdfjklASDFJKLbnBN (or, why I’ve been offline)
• 23/08 “Down the slide for cars” (and down memory lane)
• 22/08 I had to go to McDonalds! — the continuing challenges of IT
• 21/08 On headwinds and in praise of drop handlebars!
• 21/08 Copyright and sharing
• 15/08 Why do this? Part I: why the ride?
• 12/08 I have a map of the whole journey so far
• 12/08 Why do I say “she” about google maps? My IT succubus!
• 11/08 Longest distance so far
• 09/08 We have a blog! (and click here to read it: yes, this isn’t how it should work!)