I carry no phone An aspiring Luddite In a wired world.	Jeff Berry is an early adopter of the Internet and the Web, a late adopter of Twitter, and declines to adopt Facebook. With the death of Google+, he's experimenting with federated platforms . He admins a medievalist Mastodon instance, and can found on the PlusPora diaspora pod. He hates cell-phones.

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The Weather Has Turned The weather has finally shifted toward something which actually qualifies as cold. Yesterday, as I was heading out to work I placed my hand on the car and it crunched. Yes, the temperature had dipped just below freezing - and on the second of November no less! This was due, in part, to the fact that the weather was clear. Crisp and sharp, the bike ride to the station certainly woke me up and made me wish I had slightly thicker gloves. The weather the day before, or rather the night before the day before, was not clear. If you count back, you will find that was Halloween night, and the weather was perfect for Halloween. It was chilly but not cold, and there was fog in the morning, fog during the day, and fog in the evening. The evening fog grew thicker as night fell, and grew thicker the further north one travelled. When I boarded the train, the fields were visible, but obscured. Some students on the train commented on how weird it looked, and I was inspired to write a haiku: In the gloaming mist Silent cows drift across fields - Ghosts on Halloween As the train clattered north, the fog closed in on both sides. First the far sides of the fields disappeared, then the contents of the fields, and then the nearest fences. Now dark shapes fluttered on the edge of vision, and I very much wanted them to be bats, even though I knew they were simply swallows or some other small bird. Then the fog closed over the tracks just outside the window and everything beyond the glass was lost. They could have been bats. Norfolk has bats. Many different kinds, it seems, and there is an ongoing project to track them. The Norfolk Bat Survey looks like quite good fun, and we may decide to adopt a square km next summer and see if we can do our part. Luddite'sLog, 3 November 2016 © 2016 Jeff Berry

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