Posts by ChrisW
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You've got a lovely cycle underway there yourself, Chris! beautifully captured. Splendid cheeks in action, a heart inverted between them somehow reminded me of this cordate leaf on my doorstep.
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Fast ants in low light under the walnut tree - hard to catch them as sharp as the feathers.
Two pause for a split second to exchange news.A giant fly sniffs out the opportunity, but can't compete with the ants, leaves them in in exclusive occupation.
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Ants busy grooming those fine feathers
But the fledgling blackbird was past caring
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Southerly: How I Became a Grumpy Old…, in reply to David Haywood,
I have the manuscript of his second book in my possession and am currently working on the cover (see above).
Great! Looking forward to the book, and any posts you might make on the process and subject matter. Cheers.
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Great to hear of your grandfather too, David.
Any chance the retiring of his heavy duty tools could be linked to a return to writing, and work on volume two of his memoirs might be underway? -
A Grumpy Old Builder (In Microcosm)?
But retaining a trace of humour –
perhaps you too have averted this fate.An appreciation complementary to your photos,
and compliments for the lovely work,
your writing, your house, and its details. -
Catch-up reading -
What on earth was going on up-thread a few days ago, all that intensive statistical analysis of recent opinion poll data - but then expressing the results as if they related to the outcome of the election in September?It's as if a bunch of geeks outside a rugby ground estimated the half-time score using crowd noise and smoke signals, then gave their interpretation of these imperfect data sources as the final outcome of the game.
Strikes me this is the essence - or at least half of it - of the problem of media overstating vague ephemeral poll results such that they become prejudicial distortions of the election process and outcome. More care needed with the language as well as the statistics!
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Chris Waugh,
So um yeah can we please let our imaginations really stretch and do this?
+10000000000
A fine precision example of the use of inflated hyperbole in climate change debate - speaking up for all 10 billion readers? ;-)
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to WH,
Ezra Klein's Vox is up, the marquee piece is about how people use and accept evidence selectively
... when the subject is already polarised between ideological tribes, as for climate change and others.
It's a long piece, but very worthwhile all the way down, relating particularly to RB's subject, seeking better language and approaches to climate-change policy debate.But (a niggling aside) I strongly doubt that the word 'marquee' has any useful role in the language of climate change etc. I trust it/they will soon be blown away.
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Capture: Getting closer, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Air pollution + rain = ?
With emphasis on the '?' before enlargement - no idea of scale, looked like some strange structure of raw fibreglass. Yes, that's impressive!
