Today has been filled with emailing, ideas and preparations for the rest of the week’s research. In other words, like many other PhD days, I have been mainly sat at the computor. Like being at home, I sat at the computor at the library for a while, for a change of scene. There’s a great… Read More
Month: May 2014
18th May – Mountains!
Sunday, a good time for landscape loveliness. Glorious spring weather with stunning scenary that one usually only sees on TV/ postcards. It’s hard to know what to ‘do’ with these kind of views, sometimes it seems like some one just flew in a huge film backdrop and plonked it on the horizon! Stunning Svalbard -views… Read More
May 17th- Flags a-flying!
May 17th is Norway’s Constitution day, kicking of with a bang (well a few) at 7am this morning. The majority of the town’s residents and visitors were out and about for the parade today, with smart togs, traditional dress, hi-vis silver band, many flags and ‘hoorahs’. It seemed like a rightly happy occasion and holiday… Read More
16th May- Ice-slush-puddles
It is only a matter of time before Svalbard moves into full summer mode and the snow cover receeds. The ‘big melt’ is coming, in fact it might have started today with temperatures edging over the zero degree mark, (though I am holding out for more snow and re-freeze next week :)). Today we saw… Read More
15th May- Value beyond humans
Today was an amazingly clear, sunny day, in contrast to yesterday (though it has just come over white and snowy again right now!). It would be all too easy to post a beautiful, postcard perfect landscape shot…but not today at least, though plenty of those have been taken! Influenced by our latest lunchtime listening (a… Read More
14th May – aesthetics, contrast and feeling
Today was very white. A balmy -1 degrees C and snow all day, it felt a bit like Christmas! The skyfull of snow blended with the snow on the mountains and all views were turned to just white. Today’s photo got me thinking about a lecture from Michael Haywood that we listened to last night… Read More
13th May- typical tourism with a slight twist
We walked out to the easterly town limits this evening. Mainly because I wanted to say ‘hei’ to the cute husky dogs along the way. As we arrived at the infamous polar bear sign however, two gentlemen came along and we watched as they appeared to be having great fun climbing the thing. Assuming they… Read More
Read all about it!
So, I’ve written a press release, about myself, which is a weird thing to do (but for fellow researchers, it was a fun exercise in writing differently and explaining in plain language). It seems so far no one has gotten round to publishing it, so I might as well do it myself, the glories of… Read More
Svalbard, jeg er her igjen!
I’m back in Svalbard (with slightly more Norwegian under my belt) for the next two months for the main fieldwork of the PhD. Most of my time is likely to be spent chasing people around for interviews and discussions, doing said interviews, transcribing them, thinking about them and generally observing the goings on here (more… Read More
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