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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Building a carport

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Up until now, I've never had any kind of automobile shelter at Gamone. So, in winter, the car is often covered in ice and snow. At other...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Dark age of cycling

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I call it the Darkstrong epoch. Others will evoke lies, cheating and bullying. Funnily enough, we cycling enthusiasts and observers i...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Waterview folk: Howley and O'Shea

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I've often thought that some of our greatest friends in Waterview (South Grafton, Australia), in the late 1940s, were the Howley family....
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Nonsense cartoon

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Apparently Mitt Romney believes the kind of frightening nonsense expressed in the following cartoon: It's scary to think that suc...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Pumpkin scones

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In the middle of a hot summer, life's not easy for pumpkins, which crave for water. But they survive, and perk up—as sprightly as ...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

It's not about the bout with cancer

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Up until the bitter end, I persisted in believing that Lance Armstrong was an extraordinary athlete and a morally upright gentleman, and th...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Mermaid

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The ancient blazon of the Skeffington family is composed of three bull's heads, displayed here in two quarters of the arms of Clotworthy...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

London's Islamic bogeyman

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As a boy in the northern London suburb of Islington, my grandfather Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] used to play in Finsbury Park, while drea...

Pierrot wanted a wife

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I devote time and energy to family history for two basic reasons. On the one hand, we have a moral responsibility to celebrate the lives of ...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Political space capsule

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I'm utterly shocked by the apparent absence of Australian diplomatic intervention in the case of Julian Assange , condemned to survive f...
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My neighbor's donkeys

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A few days ago, a bit of half-hearted barking by Fitzroy informed me that something slightly irregular was happening at Gamone. When I rush...
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

François Skyvington's moped road movie

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Viewers in France and Germany have been reaching my Antipodes blog after Googling with the search argument " François Skyvington ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

So where the bloody hell are you?

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Maybe some of my readers don't know this notorious punchline from an Australia Tourism video of 5 years ago: In Sydney yesterday, ...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Preparing winter wood

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Yesterday afternoon, my supplier of firewood—my neighbor Gérard Magnat —dumped a huge pile of wood alongside the house. Since rain has been ...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Identity keys in the genealogical domain

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A new kind of personal identity key has come into existence over the last few years. I refer to it as your Y-key , pronounced to rhyme with ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Cory who?

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The situation is unfair. Why is it that such-and-such a totally-unknown moronic compatriot from Down Under makes world headlines every so of...

Mitt's bit about 47 per cent

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Click here to watch the US comic Jon Stewart unwinding excitedly when he demolishes Mitt Romney . It's not only great entertainment; i...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Freedom to offend my neighbor's gods

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Click here to access an excellent article by Sam Harris entitled On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God . There's an old sayi...

Antipodean voyage 1925

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A week ago, I published a short post entitled Images that stimulate our imagination [ display ]. Well, friends at Gallica tweeted me a than...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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