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18th March 2016Northern lights 2016[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] The red and green northern lights at East Sands in St Andrews, 6th March 2016.[/caption] Since my last post, I’ve been lucky enough to twice see the northern lights. Both times have been in 2016: once in the first hour of the year, and then again in early March. The northern lights at New Year were faint, yet still impressive. As I do every year, I spent Christmas with my family, but afterwards I returned north to celebrate my first New Year in St Andrews. On New Year’s Eve I made gnocchi (thanks for teaching me, Betta!) then ...
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8th March 2014Northern Lights 2014I’ve seen time-lapses from Iceland. I’ve seen videos from space of the colours around the Arctic. I’ve even seen photos of the Aurora Borealis from St Andrews, where I live. I've really wanted to see them myself. So when I checked my Facebook account and saw this post from Ed, you might think I was overwhelmed by excitement. But I wasn't. My first reaction, honestly, was dismissal. I didn't know Ed as someone familiar with astronomy, and I'm well aware of how a little wishful thinking can turn aeroplanes or planets into UFOs, and light pollution or high clouds into astronomical events. I ...
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13th January 2014A Longest Bike RideTo start the year 2014, I'm going to tell you about a bike ride from 2nd September 2012. I'm disappointed to say that I've forgotten many of the details of that day. However, I created this post shortly after the ride, and put in place all of the photographs, maps and videos. Assembling the visual media is, after all, the time-consuming part of writing of post for this website, and I would feel bad letting that work sit in my drafts folder for eternity. All I need to do is fill in the text. Simple. After having much fun riding west into ...
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11th November 2012A Longer Bike RideTo recap: after doing maths in St Andrews for half of June and all of July, I spent a couple of weeks in Nottingham with some of my family. We got out on our bikes a bit, and tried to make the most of whatever small piece of summer we could salvage from 2012. I returned home to Perth half way through August, and shortly afterwards, I took the opportunity of visiting Emily to bring my bike home from St Andrews. I wanted to go on some bikes rides. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] The River Tay at Port Allen[/caption] My first bike ...
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25th August 2012A Little Bike RideI’ve hardly written anything recently. I’ve not written on my blog for about 4 months, during which time... I had exams I moved house I visited London I went to an airshow I worked in the School of Maths at St Andrews All perfect topics to write about, yet not once did I bother. If I’m ever going to get back into the rhythm of this (which I probably won’t), I’ll have to start small. How small? This small: Yesterday I went on a bike ride. I brought my bike back from St Andrews a week or two ago. I keep it in ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
