This is a grab bag of stuff from this month, maybe becoming a recurring feature. The concept of ‘Qualifications’ is a funny one in Britain.  To be qualified to do something doesn’t mean that you have the skills to perform a task, but rather that you have “done a course” at the end of which [...]

With a proper southern accent, I present you with I Like Dicks, Happy Dicks and Clawed Dicks: {and the uncomically named Billy Florence, of course.}  My thanks to the UGA Chemistry Department newsletter for keeping me abreast [heh-heh] of happenings back home (see, guys, I DO read this thing). It really makes you wonder, though, [...]

So it has come to this…1000 posts in less than 3 years (975 days, to be precise). In that time we have come quite far together:  712 pub stops, 4025 miles running (1740 unique miles in the UK, at that), almost 96000 views of this blog  (averaging about 200/day the last few months after slow [...]

On Tuesday, my local paper made me laugh out loud on the bus ride to work with the page 3 article above. 1: The rivers around here can be waded across by small children. 2: A substantial fire brigade response seemed warranted. 3:  Animal rescue specialists were found and dispatched to the scene. 4 (and [...]