All alone…?!
Hello, everyone! … It’s now been more than six months since we watched the last aeroplane take off. More than six months in isolation, ...
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It’s “sakrisch” (darned) cold!
Hello, everyone! Some things are just easier to say using dialect. And I remember last using this expression a year and a half ago ...
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Here comes the sun …
Hi, everyone! Just like every day, after getting up the first thing I look at on my office computer is the weather forecast. Today ...
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And now midwinter has come and gone …
Hello, everyone! Sundays are always a treat. You can sleep in a bit longer (at least some of us can …), and there’s not ...
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What you do when it’s dark…
Hello, everyone! The Polar Night is growing darker, subjectively speaking we have about two and a half hours of twilight at midday, although our ...
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Finally, the sun is back …
Hello, everyone! Today I was rudely awakened as usual by my alarm clock, raised the blinds in my window and saw a strip of ...
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Who says the Earth is flat?
Hello again, everyone! In the meantime, I’ve cobbled together some new bracing struts for our PowerKite, and treated it to a test flight on ...
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A Sunday afternoon in the Antarctic with drifting snow…
Hello, everyone! It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m taking a break. The weather isn’t exactly inviting: the wind has picked up to 50 kilometres ...
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Thanks for putting a smile on our faces …
Hello, everyone! In times when you might think there’s nothing but bad news, we wanted to tell you about a great idea that put ...
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After the storm is before the storm
First of all, thanks so much for the flood of responses to our blog. I frequently deliberated whether or not I should continue the ...