You may have noticed there was something of a blank here at Lucid Ephemera for a few weeks while I went off and did festive things and had a holiday. More details on Italians in puffy jackets and wild boar salami follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope all of you [...]
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2010 and 2011, thank you and hello
Posted in Aleppo, archaeology, architecture, Australia, autumn, Berlin, bread, British colonial mansions, cathedrals, chocolate, Christmas, churches, Crete, Cretins, Cyprus, Damascus, day trips, deer, Dodgy taxi drivers, driving, elbow, England, expat, fleas, food, Germany, Greece, history, Italy, Liverpool, manor houses, markets, Morocco, mosques, museums, odd hotels, Ottomans, Phillipine overseas domestic workers, post offices, Recalcitrant stereos, rowing, shopping, singing, smuggling, summer, Sunday, Syria, The Cyprus Question, The Mediterranean Middle Lane, tombs, tourism, travel, Turkey, Uncategorized, Venetians, Volkswagens, Volkswagons, weather, winter, wordless, work, working from home, Xania on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frozen Solid
Posted in weather, winter on December 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I thought that the extreme cold would be like a heatwave and pass after a few days, perhaps a week if we were unlucky. In fact it was almost two weeks before there was any respite. In the meantime, things got more frosty than I could have imagined. After the blizzards last week, the snow [...]
Snowed Under
Posted in driving, weather, winter on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who have been down a mine for the last week, Britain is in the grip of extreme weather. Five days ago we woke to an unexpected covering of snow, and the temperature hasn’t risen above freezing since. Instead, we’ve had more snow. And more snow. Lots of it. Funnily enough, the [...]
Autumn
Posted in autumn, weather, winter on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
They say Melbourne has four seasons in one day. In Britain in October we’ve had four seasons in one – or at least three in one month. This has been particularly welcome because as so often happens, Britiain didn’t have a proper summer this year. At least a proper summer by anybody else’s standards. It [...]
In a Bit of Hot Water
Posted in Australia, England, weather on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are many well-known British traditions, amongst them tea, Wimbledon, fish and chips and a Queen with two birthdays. Less well-known is another grand institution: the bath. A range of phenomena demonstrate the importance of taking baths to the British psyche. The value placed on being able to take a bath rather than have a [...]
Black and Blue
Posted in Australia, autumn, England, food, summer, weather on September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Autumn is here; practically if not officially, bringing with it a painful, itchy but ultimately tasty adventure. Although the season doesn’t officially change for three weeks, autumn has been here for a fortnight. There have been chills in the early morning air and a couple of dulling fogs. Surprisingly, the change has been a welcome [...]
