Antipodes

Snow hit us massively during the night. Nobody can say we weren't warned. TV weather reports have become amazingly precise. Yester...

Yesterday, a new group of tiny colorful birds arrived at Gamone. The following poor-quality photo (with my telephoto lens, there's not e...

In my blog post of 1 March 2010 entitled Australia's choice of fighter planes [ display ], I suggested that, instead of waiting for the...

As a youth in my native Grafton, I didn't think of myself as somebody who might be particularly interested in the flow of rivers. That...

Something has changed in the eating habits of my winter colony of mésanges [Great Tits]. Up until now, there hasn't been much snow at G...

American-born Drew Berry has achieved fame as a creator of amazing animated biological videos in a celebrated scientific environment in Aus...

I hastened to read Thinking, fast and slow by the Israeli-born Daniel Kahneman after coming upon a description of the Princeton professo...

I've been pursuing my investigations into the possibility that a thatched house drawn in 1870 might have actually existed in Pont-en-Roy...

Urunga is a small seaside town to the south of Coffs Harbour (Australia), not far from my native Clarence River region, and the Pacific High...

The first exploit is simply an unbelievable catch in a game of cricket in New Zealand. The ball was about to touch the ground beyond the off...

Last night, when I started to watch a fictionalized documentary on Frederick the Great , King of Prussia [1712-1786], I had no idea what it ...

I've always looked upon my maternal aunt Nancy Walker (8 years older than me) as a kind of big sister. So, when she married a Sydney ge...

Jeanne d'Arc . In English, Joan of Arc. Her family surname was d'Arc . And her given name was Jeanne (pronounced jun in French, l...