http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/ en-us denni_schnapp@yahoo.co.uk Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:44:14 +0100 http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017721.shtml It's cranefly season, and this summer, there is an unusual number of them. Every night, John opens his bedroom window with the lights on (and the doors closed). He feeds the craneflies he catches to the spider that has set... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017706.shtml For now at least. Until the end of November, I will focus mainly on fiction writing. I have one story to polish and submit to a professional market, another ditto for an unpaying (but prestigious) website, a third for the... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017667.shtml It's nearly a week ago now, but it feels much longer. Perhaps this is because of the dreamlike quality of he day. Odd to think that in my 41 years, I've never been to a major rock festival before.... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017664.shtml I got a cold at the Reading festival. This has set me back a few days and I haven't been able to blog much, even when Tony Blair came up with probably the first of his senile-politician-waiting-to-be-kicked-out-of-office proposals the other... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017646.shtml Yep, it's that time of year again. John's birthday is here. I'm still broke, so I thought I'd make him another chocolate cake to show off in the office. Last year, the effort ended in near-disaster, took 6h instead of... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017611.shtml ...and the Greenland write-up will resume tomorrow. All my photos have now been uploaded to Flickr (much quicker from home) and I'm in the process of sorting them. On a disappointed note: I spoiled the film in the Nokia when... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017693.shtml 20th August 2006 When the sun comes out, with the clouds still hanging low in the sky, the light of the arctic summer is unique. The sky shimmers with mother-of-pearl shades of baby-blue, light turquoise and just a hint of... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017584.shtml 19th August 2006 Last night, for the first time in 48 hours, the clouds lifted. It was an opportunity to shower and wash my stuff without it feeling futile. Afterwards, I sat at the picnic table outside the campsite and... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017583.shtml 18th August 2006 To recap: It’s pissing it down with rain The campsite is full of Germans Not one picture has come out I don’t know why the latter happened. Apparently, the little knob next to the rewind lever wasn’t... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017578.shtml OK, so I'm not going to do this in sequence. Too boring. I'm struggling a bit with my English at the moment, so flowery descriptions will have to wait for my BNA writeups... 16th August 2006 I have travelled the... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017691.shtml 17th August 2006 (later that day) As soon as people approached the imposing dining room, with its tables, covered in starched linen and silverware, overlooking the iceberg-strewn bay through large picture windows, the murmur of conversation ebbed to a whisper;... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017689.shtml 17th August 2006 There is a press release pinned to the town noticeboard. The new season's quotas for belugas and narwhals have been set: 285 narwhals (but minus the number caught in the previous year by some of the communities... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017555.shtml Photos are going up on Flickr gradually, but I'm not yet in a position to blog (When I am, my traveljournal will gradually appear, with pictures. It will be back-dated so that the whole trip comes up in sequence. Good... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017684.shtml 15th August 2006 We were floating among magic sculptures of ice in the evening light. Ahead, the Sydney Opera House just floated by. I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to do this trip on acid in... http://blogs.BootsnAll.com/denni/archives/017683.shtml The ship was equipped with a giant, 101 person life raft which can inflate in seconds. Passengers glide down a sort of rubber chute; at no time does anyone come into contact with the water. Just to make absolutely sure,...