Greetings from the South, Daylight saving finished here last weekend which is a clear message that summer has finished. The way the weather has been this year many locals are wondering whether summer ever started. The temperatures are still quite mild – low 20s (that’s Celsius for the North American) but it hasn’t been consistently [...]
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Feb 062012
News from North America February 1, 2012 In the style of our esteemed college Anders Lundström, I will open this newsletter with a brief discussion on weather. North America is experiencing its mildest winter in decades at the same time that Central and Eastern Europe are experiencing their coldest. Here in Ann Arbor the majority [...]
Nov 292011
Greetings from the South, As you northerners now enter your winter we are approaching summer. Here Christmas is a time for summer holidays, going to beach and eating barbecued food outside with a beer. However, many, if not most, of us trace at least some of our ethnic origins back to Europe and so we [...]
Oct 092011
Dear IFRTT Form subscriber We are in the middle of spring and the African sun is already helping to us to prepare for another hot summer. Fortunately we have had good spring rains in many parts of the country. But many South African eyes are pointed further south – at the Rugby World Cup currently [...]
