It’s like clockwork – every day at around 5 o’clock it starts to rain, just to bother people ready to walk home.
Of course, this isn’t isolated – it also rains in the morning often, in the evening sometimes. We just had the wettest June on record, even though it’s been slightly warmer, apparently.
Just my luck.
So, this Cambridge summer is about catching the patches of sunshine as they pass.
I hope July is better. It’s looking that way so far. Fingers crossed.
Filed under: australia, climate change, england, environment, events, science, travel
I deliberately have separate professional and travel/personal sites, because I like to keep things separate. But they’re merging! I want to talk about something that will also appear on my professional site in a few days.
Last night I went to London for an event by Advance, who have been promoting themselves around Cambridge through the Cambridge University Australia and New Zealand Society.
I dragged Ian along, because I thought he would also be interested to hear Tim Flannery talk about climate change, and associated things. It was fantastic. Ian was equally as satisfied.
I got to interview Tim before his talk, outside the Great Hall at King’s College, London. We sat on a bench. He was jetlagged, but very amiable and inspiring still. The interview didn’t take long – we were done well before he had to go on stage. We got chatting about how Adelaide is going, how great the Central Market is, what we were both doing in London (he was there to launch his books in paperback in the UK). Talking about what I was doing there led to me telling Tim about my various career options and what I might be doing next year, and he gave me some great advice.
Like me, Tim did a degree in humanities (English in his case) before moving into science. That’s good to hear. Realising that great people like him have the same humble beginnings as me was very motivational. Getting career advice from someone so successful who started out in a similar way is invaluable.
I feel very privileged to have properly met our 2007 Australian of the Year, I think he well deserves the honour. Thanks Tim.
