Shirley Tillotson

Photograph of a woman wearing a parka. Caption reads "does climate change spell the end of the big winter coat?"

I will usually defend dressing up to look good - style - as a delightful form of creative expression.

Fashion journalism, though? Borderline. Because of pitches like this one in the Saturday @theglobeandmail.com

Ouf. Tone deaf.

What on earth???!

Another good tip!

I got a bill claiming a 30% increase in electricity use for a month the entire family was in Ontario.

Check your bills, Nova Scotia friends.

Thanks. Great tips! I still remember a stretch near Hantsport where I had a near miss decades ago.

Any tips? I watch the ditch fairly closely when I'm driving that road (as I do quite often). And I tell myself that, if I had to swerve I'd swerve toward the hind end of the deer. It's a worry.

I have a friend who plunges at least twice a week. Your reply inspired me, and she's going to show me her ways next week. Woohoo!

Nice

Excellent GIF!

I have a friend who does cold water "swims" twice weekly from September on. (Mostly plunges, w neoprene booties and gloves). I have (gulp) made a commitment to join her on the 10th. I think it's going to be one of those things where you trade off discomfort for exhilaration. Will report back.

This is bringing back a dim memory of childhood advent calendars. I remember now searching for little "doors" in a cardboard picture. Cool!

🤯 👏 I'm unaccustomed to advent calendars. Aren't they usually in chronological order? (And how much more fun for them not to be!)

Book review: 'Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities' by Carole Rawcliffe (2013) I’ve just finished reading ‘Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities’ by Carole Rawcliffe, Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia.

Just added a substack version of the review I wrote of one of the best books on Medieval hygiene I've ever read.

You can find it here;
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The wordpress version is here;
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🤔 Maybe it's time for me to start a new tradition for my January birthday?

That actually makes sense. Love the idea of being in the water in the winter.

A figure in a wetsuit carrying a surfboard walks into the ocean. In the foreground cobble Beach on the horizon the dark headland. The skies rolling nimbus clouds.

The Lawrencetown Beach surfers never fail to amaze.

Yes, it was as cold as it looks in the photo.

Air temp hovering around 2C / 35F, with a brisk breeze

Great!

Interesting. Thanks!

Just finished reading Airborne by Carl Zimmer. It really helped me understand how the droplet / airborne misinformation happened.

And it was the first thing I'd read that told me about the ultraviolet light story and far UVC. 😥

And I read lots of non-fiction and news.

And yes: far-UVC germicidal light is one of the most promising tools we have.
Clean air is the seatbelt of the 21st century.
We could’ve prevented so much suffering simply by telling people the truth about how the virus moves.

Interesting thread. Got me thinking, more than just the lists

There are trees in Dartmouth Crossing? 😉

Srsly, though, oh dear.

You cannot punish your way out of that kind of problem. The only way forward is care.

It's a series! Contested Countryside, Contested Catch,... Will, say, Contested Currents (a study of hydrography and pilotage) be next?

Great!

Talking with her over the years she's been researching and writing, I have been constantly surprised at what I've learned.

Surprise is a big part of what I like in non-fiction, and I think this one will deliver a lot

Got my tenth covid shot yesterday. I think the next one is free.

Chapter titles. Why lobsters. One lobsters and those who caught them. Two lobster becomes a commodity. Three regulating the lobster fisher. For the politics of knowledge and the lobster question, 1874 to 1939. Five rejecting regulation colon direct action, force and new strategies 1890s to 1960s. Six the politics of lobster and catching votes, 1871 to 1939. 7. Lobster regulation at social policy, 1929 to 1970. Conclusions and epilogue: contested catch

It boggles my mind that the regional historiography has so much neglected this fishery.

Here's the TOC

Screen capture of a book cover. It's a white background with a picture of part of a multicolored lobster dominating the bottom 2/3 of the cover. Book title is Contested catch: lobster, localism and Canada's Atlantic coast, 1870 to 1970

It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery.

Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.

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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.