This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Sunday, 18 July 2021
Murmurings of Mortality
Whenever I read about President Joe Biden, I'm always told his presidency is precarious because he's 78! That is only a year older than me but I don't feel precarious. Just to remind myself of the passing years, by going back. Me on 77th birthday, in Gangtok, Indian Himalayas aged 70, with a swan in Dorset aged 65, drinking wine in France at 59, being scientific at Swansea University aged 51, with an Eagle owl at 45, running in Llanelli at 40, as a new staff member at Swansea University aged 29, with an experimental mouse aged 28, as a school child in Manchester aged 11 and as a baby in 1945. Hope to be going a bit longer!
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The only consistent trend I can see, is that I get less cute as I get older. Probably the same for all?
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