These are the colours, and the temperature scale that my sister and I are using to create our temperature blankets. (If you’re viewing this on a mobile phone, scroll left to see more details). The colours you see here will vary from screen to screen, but I am so happy with the choices my friend and I made and the way they look in real life. We record our temperatures in Celsius in the UK, so the Farenheit scale here is a straight conversion. If you choose to use our colours you may want to adjust the scale more evenly.
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temperature blanket
Well, that was fast, wasn’t it? February is over and my temperature blanket has grown by one more month, twenty nine hexagons, two blank hexagons, and one and a bit rows. I ended my January update with an earworm that had really started to bug me (‘January‘, by Pilot), happily thinking that that was it, month over and therefore earworm over. But of course that’s ridiculous. After parking ‘January’, my brain idly wondered if there were songs about February, and … boom … just like that, another earworm entered my brain. I haven’t been able to dislodge it since. This …
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January is over, which means I’ve completed approximately one twelfth of my temperature blanket, excluding the final border. I plan to note highlights from my temperature blanket each month so I have details to look back on in future years. The weather, temperatures and a massive ear-worm of a song have been ever present in my mind throughout the month. I thought checking temperatures every day would be a chore, but I’ve found one of the unexpected side-effects of making a temperature blanket is a deeper connection to my natural world. Something I am really enjoying and appreciating. I am …
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I use Excel a lot; in fact, I consider it my ‘Desert Island’ software. For those unfamiliar with the UK’s Desert Island Disks program (on BBC Radio 4), this means that if I was stranded on an island and allowed to take only one piece of software with me, it would be Excel. I’m pretty sure I’d need to be keeping close tabs on all the best spots to catch fish, where to find the coconuts, and a log of plants that do and don’t make me ill when I eat them. Assuming I survive ingesting a dodgy bit of …
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My sister and I live in two vastly different countries. I live in Scotland, in Europe, in the Northern hemisphere; my sister lives in Zimbabwe, in Africa, in the Southern hemisphere. When it is winter in Scotland, it is summer in Zimbabwe. I grew up with hot, sometimes humid, Christmases. Because it is warm for a lot of the year, houses in Zimbabwe are built to be kept cool, while our homes in the UK are insulated in anticipation of cold winters. It’s difficult to explain, but I’ve long suspected that this makes our perception of ‘temperature’ a bit skewed. …
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