Ännu en solig morgon i Lund. Dock är det lite kyligare tidigt på morgonen nu. Hösten kallar förstås. Vi är snart i september. Då är det bara tre månader till jul. Ugh!
Month: August 2021
Chandler’s Ford shooting
The Wikipedia article of the day for August 24, 2021 is Chandler’s Ford shooting. The Chandler’s Ford shooting was an attempted robbery on 13 September 2007 in which two men were shot dead by officers of London’s Metropolitan Police while robbing a cash-in-transit van. The Met had been tracking a gang who had stolen an estimated £500,000 from security vans and learned that the gang intended to rob the HSBC bank in Chandler’s Ford. Armed officers hid nearby early in the morning, with snipers in overlooking buildings. Shortly after the G4S van’s arrival, a masked Mark Nunes demanded at gunpoint that the guard hand over the cash box. A police sniper shot Nunes in the chest. A second gangster, Andrew Markland, picked…
Edvard August Vainio
The Wikipedia article of the day for August 23, 2021 is Edvard August Vainio. Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made Vainio renowned internationally. Vainio’s earliest works dealt with phytogeography—elucidating and enumerating flora and its distribution—in the Finnish language. In these publications he demonstrated an attention to detail and thoroughness that became characteristic of his later work. Vainio described about 1700 new taxa, and published more than 100 scientific works. He made significant scientific collections of lichens, and while a herbarium curator at the University of…
Hardy’s i Höör
En söndagstur på skånska vägar tog mig till Höör och Hardy’s. På Hardy’s, åtminstone på helgerna, är det alltid mycket folk. Inget undantag idag. Tog en bacon & cheese burger med deras goda hemlagade dressing. Vad det mer var gott om förutom folk var mängder av getingar. Något störande att ha dem svärmande runt när man sitter ute och äter.