New Rune Workshops for spring 2010 from my very talented friend bluemagpie

link to Odin's Gateways

I have today written to my MP using the words below to express my opposition to the proposals for home education contained in the Children Schools and Families Bill which has its second reading on Monday 11 January.

Freedom for Children to Grow

Education Otherwise on the proposals

Letter organised by Brighton home educators - please sign if you ( Read more... )

I am still alive and living in Brighton. I did start a post in September about a walk from Chichester at the end of August (photos), which was great fun but the last long walk I did in the year. Out to Fishbourne and then to Bosham, down to the Itchenor ferry to cross to West Itchenor for crab salad and beer in the Ship Inn, before returning to ( Read more... )

While browsing Mind Hacks today I found Language Log which contained the following:

original cartoon
cartoon translated to Icelandic
recent cartoon on similar theme.

This photo was taken on my mobile phone in Edinburgh three or four years ago. Edinburgh is the only city in the UK where I have heard Catalan spoken in the street!

Link to restaurant sign in my Flickr photostream

If any of you in London are interested in learning about runes, I suggest looking at this course by my good friend bluemagpie at treadwells bookshop.

Flyer for September rune course

Purcell Room
Thomas Noone Dance (Spain)
Futil/Crush

Thursday 5 February 2009 - Friday 6 February 2009

link to South Bank website

(Thanks to madda_gaskaGrab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST ( Read more... )

Mrs Badger and I were married in Brighton registry office today, followed by a meal in Due South and a renewal of our handfasting vows on Brighton Beach. The witnesses were Marielle and sassygoth24. We were also joined by younger cub and the parents of sassygoth24. Now about to go on honeymoon to Cuckmere for the weekend!


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This was the title of an inaugural lecture by Robert Archer at Kings College this evening, discoursing on Cervantes, translation and his passion for Ausias March (a Valencian poet from some time ago). The warp side is a metaphor by Cervantes for reading a translation into a closely related language. While drinking tea before and wine after I was ( Read more... )