Archive for June, 2009

The people’s flag is gwenn ha du

Posted in body, experience, far_away, fatigue, language, location, occupation, person, rare_languages, surprise, tourism on June 29th, 2009 2 Comments »

I’ve been away from blogging for a good couple of weeks now, and physically away from my computer for around ten days. This has been spent in a landline-free, signal-free Breton valley near Guingamp. Every once in a while a journey to a nearby beach would put us in range of a mobile mast and [...]

Dog on wheel

Posted in cotswolds, development, environment, location, nature, occupation on June 5th, 2009 No Comments »

An employee at the hilariously named company immediately behind our offices—think, say, “Pony Avengers”, or possibly “Livestock Squadron” and you have a rough idea—takes a dog to work. Nothing unusual about that: this is the countryside, after all, and at least two people where I work for bring their dogs to work, either occasionally or [...]