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Wednesday, 19th May 2010
Posted by Judith on 20 May 2010 | Tagged as: Archery, Work
I really like flying, but hell, it was nice to have a day off.
I heard the rain in the night and there was no sun shining through the curtains to wake us up, so we had a nice lie in and then caught up with last week’s letters, emails, bills etc. All of life’s mundane stuff. By afternoon we were out on the archery field and having a really good session. I am getting used to my bow and am working on my accuracy, and I am pleased with the results.
In the evening my parents came back to see us on their way home from Ireland and took us out for a slap up curry.
Friday, 14th May 2010
Posted by Judith on 14 May 2010 | Tagged as: Work
A cold, rainy, miserable day. Not nice enough to go out even to do archery. We did some work, editing and uploading the Big Bash photos and doing other club stuff.
We also got an email from a Canadian academic who interviewed us about our work nearly two years ago. The information from this will be incorporated in a book, being published shortly, we think – there have been some delays with it because of the publisher, not the content. However, Lynn Anderson, the researcher, has had a smaller article published, looking at the carbon footprint of physical and online conferences. She took took one of our SDP conferences as the example of an international virtual conference and used this to work out the carbon footprint differences between different types of conferences. One interesting – and astonishing – finding was that:
“had the SDP conference taken place in London, England, instead of online, the per capita emissions would have been greater than the per capita emissions of Brazil for all of 2005. In fact, the per capita emissions for this one conference, taking place over three days, would have been greater than the per capita emissions of at least 86 different countries for the entire year of 2005.”
She also found that if we had the conferences in London, people would be paying more than US$2600, rather than the $69 that we were charging in 2005.
So we’re really honoured to get international academic acknowledgment for the work we do.
Monday 10th May 2010
Posted by Geoff on 11 May 2010 | Tagged as: Party, party, party..., Work
Geoff writes: not really flyable, so we did some DIY house jobs, and in the morning had our first phone meeting for the online conference we are running in November. In the evening, Judith went to music night at the Bridges with Wayne. I didn’t bother going, we went last week and it wasn’t that brilliant – usually during term time for the students, it’s a bit less lively. So Judith got back around 1.00a.m., saying it was probably the best ever music night she had ever been to! Oh well…..
Judith writes: Yep, cracking night. There was the usual brilliant regulars of Thom Morcroft, Beth Prior and the excellent guy who sings ‘The King is Dead’; but we were also treated to Miles and Erica from The Wonder Stuff, Dave Sharpe (formerly of The Alarm) and a jazz combo from Holland who brought a full size double bass, which only just fitted under the low ceiling.
Wednesday, 28th April 2010
Posted by Judith on 29 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Work
The good weather spell of the last 3 weeks seems finally to have broken.
It seems like ages since we had a day in (I realise it was actually Sunday). Although we have been here for more than three weeks, we have been doing so much rushing around that I feel we have only just started settling in. So today was a day for jobs – club, domestic and paid work.
Monday, 8th March 2010
Posted by Judith on 08 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Walking, Work
The forecast bad weather arrived today – in spades. There was a thin layer of snow when we woke up and it has snowed ever since. This is unusual – in the eight winters we have spent here, we have rarely seen snow (as opposed to rain), never mind it lying on the ground. I’ve been hoping to get some photos of snow on the cliff for ages, but it’s always gone by the time I get to the bottom of the cliff.
There was about 20cm of snow by 3pm and the power cut out, so we went out to walk round the cliff. It’s really weird seeing Castellfollit looking so different.
Masella has had 70cm of new snow and it’s still snowing hard. Most of the resort is closed due to avalanche risk. My dad phoned to say they had 60cm in Rupit and he is snowed in, occasionally without power. He’s going to use the snow shoes we bought him for Christmas to go to the shops tomorrow. Nicky has had trees down at the bottom of her road and looking at the Roses webcam, we saw snow lying on the beach for the first time ever. The forecast strong wind has just arrived so it seems it’s pretty wild all over north-eastern Spain.
The 7pm forecast has just predicted continued snow throughout the night.
Wednesday, 3rd March 2010
Posted by Judith on 03 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Work
The forecast was as bad as they predicted and it has rained all day. Good working conditions. Geoff even managed some DIY, in the shape of painting part of the office. The fumes were so noxious that we had to move out of the office. Not such good working conditions after all!
Saturday, 27th February 2010
Posted by Judith on 27 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Work
The promised storm down south (and tracking north) was something of a damp squib here. There were weather warnings of 140 kmph winds in Cantabria and Galicia, but like most of the bad weather recently, it made a big beeline around us. No spectacular rain showers and barely any wind. If there hadn’t been the occasional dribbles of rain and the fact that we wanted to finish off some work before going on holiday next week, we would have gone out flying!
In order to get that summer feeling, I signed up for the first ever Women’s PG Open, held in August just down the road in Ager. And while I was at it, booked my flight home from Nice two weeks later. Roll on June and Slovenia…