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Training at Cycle Systems Academy
I last wrote about bicycle maintenance almost a year ago, here’s the next instalment.Draining oil from the fork's damper. Last month I spent two weeks at the wonderful Cycle Systems Academy in London....
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We have a problem. I’ve known we’ve had a problem for a long time. It’s only in the last few years though, after I left my career in engineering to take a PhD in glaciology, studying the changing...
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High Speed 2
I have just one simple response to High Speed 2 (HS2). Why do we need to invest a lot of money, many billions, in further facilitating long distance national travel? This seems like a bad idea. We...
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Making Mead
Last week our local beekeeping association ran a mead workshop. We’d never made mead before and only tasted it a couple of times. Mead, or honey wine, is an ancient fermented drink made from fermenting...
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Ciabatta
First two loaves of ciabatta Ciabatta’s wonderful, especially dipped in balsamic and olive oil. We had a go making some the other day with great success. 375 g strong white bread flour 125 g semolina,...
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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013
I’m on my way home from my first EGU conference, taking a sleeper train from Venice to Cologne, then on to Brussels, to London via Eurostar and finally back to Bristol. It takes 23 hours with fairly...
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A Day in the Woods
Last weekend I spent a day with The Bristol Bike Project in Strawberry Cottage Wood. This is the wood Rob Penn has been managing for the BBC TV series Tails from the Wild Wood. Our job for the day was...
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Rhubarb Cake
In May we always have an abundance of rhubarb. It’s a fantastic vegetable for crumbles, jam, cakes or just stewed with a bit of ice cream. We appreciate it even more because there isn’t much else from...
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Raising Queen Bees
Cell bars with cups ready for grafting.Whilst honeybees are perfectly able to raise new queens without the beekeepers intervention, there are many situations where a supply of young mated queens in an...
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Solar PV Water Heater Challenge
The Challenge To ‘dump’ as much excess solar photovoltaic energy into hot water tank as possible whilst minimising impact on battery store. Background Our house is off-grid, powered by 6.5 kWp solar...
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