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• The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia
• Flax/Harakeke – New Zealand’s Resource Curse
• The Sixth-Century Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, Austria
• ChatGPT Makes Shit Up
• Tuataras in Central Otago
• 1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
• Time-Travel in a Time of COVID-19
• Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist
• How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia
• Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?
• When New Zealand was a Burning Land
• Australia’s Black Thursday Fires 1851 – how big and why?
• Limestones, Climate Change and Scepticism
• New Zealand’s Doggerland
• A Nail up the Nose, and another take on Monotheism
• Sudden Stratospheric Warming Closed my Cafe
• Searching for Smyrna in Izmir, Turkey
• Nominated: Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog on WordPress!
• Australia – both Greening and Burning?
• How You Can Predict Bushfires in Australia – Four Days Out
• That Rich Woman in the Slovenian Forest
• A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?
• A Postcard from the Pripyat, Belarus
• Belarus – and that ‘Registration Thing’
• Excuse me, I’m looking for the bog – Yelnya, Belarus
• Desperately Seeking Cool Cafes in Odesa, Ukraine
• Magic on the Night Train to Odesa, Ukraine
• The antifragile (?) tree-ferns of Omatepe, Nicaragua
• One Night in San Salvador (El Salvador)
• Yes – Go to Nicaragua now

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