Saturday, 17 November 2012

Falling stanards

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This is recycled from another blog that is about to be withdrawn.  I thought I had already saved it to here, but apparently not.  I'm ra...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

The entombed miner

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Well, it's been a month, and I have been frantically busy, collecting an award for the book that came out in May, a Whitley from the Ro...
Sunday, 23 September 2012

An unexpected change of direction

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Any careful reader of this blog will realise that I sometimes diverge into history. I am not an historian: I am a story-teller, but in his...
Saturday, 8 September 2012

I'm back on deck

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Just that: I haven't slipped between the cracks or fallen off my perch.  I'm just a bit busy.  Something more substantial in a day...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Keeping snails and slugs away

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A large land snail, found on club moss under a banyan tree on Tanna, Republic of Vanuatu on the Pacific Ocean. A land snail from M...
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Sunday, 12 August 2012

Death and the Rhinestone Maidens

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And now for something completely different: an instruction in opera appreciation in one act, 'twixt the Cab Sav and Cav and Pag in the ...
Friday, 10 August 2012

There is a new book on the way

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I got back from Vanuatu (of which more later) on Wednesday night, and on Thursday morning, a courier arrived with a box from what is now m...
Monday, 23 July 2012

Two blocks of silence

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I have now fallen silent for a week.  The reason is simple: I have been finishing off the manuscripts of two new books and pitching a third....
Sunday, 15 July 2012

Collecting engravings

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Acacia sp. Here in Australia, our "winter" is almost at an end, according to the flowers.  That said, the sun is low in the s...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

Leech-wrangling, a grand-daughter's mantis, and vacuumed trees.

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Writing a book has its fun bits, mostly when I am planning the chapters. This is followed (for me, anyhow) by exhilarating bits like bangin...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Flatworms at a glance

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Yes, been busy again.  The other day, though, I found a land planarian, so I thought I would dig out a section of the book that was cut, ...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

Rashomon times 2 (or 2 plus 1)

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OK, there was a bit of a hiatus there, mainly because I have been busy with Other Stuff. In particular, I have been concerning myself with...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

Thinking about slugs and snails

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Rule 1 of being a naturalist: the most interesting questions are your own questions! These are some random thoughts about snails that wer...