I have an innate hatred of supermarkets. The faster I can get in and out of them, the better. But the big …
Monthly Archives
April 2016
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 19 – vegetarian at the Jiming Temple
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jiming temple is our neighbour at NIGPAS ( the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology). I can see them out my …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
New Zealand’s Rata and Pohutakawa – riders of the Miocene storms?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThere is a Maori legend than when one of their ancestral canoes (the Te Arawa) approached New Zealand after traveling from its …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 17 – Green tea and red bean ice-cream at Bellagio’s
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe green tea and red bean ice-cream (see featured image) served by Bellagio’s became an absolute favourite of mine whenever I was passing …
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Korean Leek Cake – yum! Never heard of it before, but it tastes as good as it looks (see featured image). This …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 15 – even better chicken curry and rice
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI thought I was on to a pretty good Nanjing food deal at the place where I had a chicken curry and …
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I once had a student come to me for help looking at sheep crap. It took the mystery out of what this …
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The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology has cats. There’s at least a dozen of them, if not 15 and more. Hard …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Horsetail Marshes of the New Zealand Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) – an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …
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