Cold Weather: Fairbanks and Oxford
It’s been properly winter cold here in Oxford England- after a great summer and mild autumn. Which means the temperature dropped just below zero… But today our Oxford weather’s reverted to being the usual...
Category: Outdoor
Trading Places 2: Green Politics and Keeping Warm in Fairbanks Alaska and Oxford (England)
Green Party Lights in Alaska In both Fairbanks and Oxford, environmental issues are important. For Oxfordonians the interest is indirect, academic (and caring), whereas Fairbanks is surrounded by vulnerable tundra. The East Oxford Council ward...
Trading Places: Cycling in Oxford and Fairbanks Alaska
Oxford England – as some Americans would say, is one of the world’s bicycle cities. With the exception of Headington Hill, it’s flat, and being a medieval city, a push bike is the best...
A Wateringhole in the Storm
I’ve been posting SITREPs for a bar restaurant The Watering Hole on the beach at Perranporth, as terrible storms and high tides assail the West Country; while at the same time my son Will...
