Archive for January, 2009
I have just had the most pythonesque argument with the school secretary
Which revolved around the fact I’d missed the admissions date for my youngest. Fair enough, my fault, I should have seen the signs on the window. The nursery didn’t inform me the way it should of or give me the forms.. but that’s a side issue.
So last week I asked what to do, and I [...]
Finally I get to the computer
After my kids hogged it all weekend.
You know I’d have more respect for Egyptsearch if they figured out I get pingbacks. I’ve had a few comments from that source recently, same old same old. Never anything but the same misquoutes abuse and outright lies.I delete half of the comments without even reading them now. There was [...]
So do I edit the wikipedia page
Because it’s a hassle, and it would take two days to do it right.
It’s the current entry on the Neolthic revolution, which is hopelessly incorrect for the bulk of it’s text. Firstly it repeats the old saw about ancient agriculture in Africa, which Wendorf himself (the man who claimed it) later proved to be due [...]
Racial purity and other genetic bugbears.
A fair amount of the studies I blog involve Africa and the near East (most really) and it’s typical to see ‘admixture’ amounts in them, how much typically sub Saharan mt DNA is in Arabs, how much Arab in Africans, etc. Lets me just get one thing straight; anyone from East Africa, North Africa or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last day for Woolworths, more moronic comments…
So I went for a look. It was pretty sad, the tables and chairs from the staffroom were being sold off, and the back section was already being ripped out. it’s been there over seventy years, my father in law used to buy hot peanuts there as a child. I spent ages muling over the lipsticks when [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Finally some peace and quiet.Was there a pre-Neolithic expansion into North Africa and the Med from Turkey?
Now that the little angels are back at school/nursery. I got about three posts done for MAB. Tomorrow I’ll finish the archaic human housing entry that’s lounging round in the draft section. It’s amazing that people believe that humans were living in caves in the paleolithic. Even Homo Erectus built huts – probably boats too.
The DNA results [...]
Finished it, and the girl is memorising poetry..
It took me three days but I finished ‘the faces of North Africa’. Before last week I had no idea how many Roman era mosaics there were there. It must have been a very wealthy area in the Roman era, som of them are beautifully detailed. Black Africans are rather notable by their abscence in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just the weekend to go before school…
Before the little darlings go back to school. Education is a wonderful thing.
So… NubianMoor has just got himself on the comments blacklist. He took a real dislike to the large amounts of studies observing a Eurasian back migration into North Africa dating to about 35K ago and called me a white supremacist. Is this some [...]
