Jen Harvey

Miscellaneous Musings

  • Helena

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    Jen

    So, Helena was born on Wednesday April 4th at 22:37 and weighed in at 2740 grams and 50cms long. She is a strong wee thing and loves to drink her milk, so she is already a couple of hundred grams heavier! Anyway, I am off to enjoy motherhood for a while and will see you

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  • Tagged! 5 things you didn’t know about me.

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    Jen

    I’ve been tagged by Brian to come up with a list of 5 things you don’t know about me…. Err, so here goes: 1. My father trained for the priesthood and spent a year in a monastery in Ireland. Apparently this year of solitude spent in the windy wilds of Galway was enough to convince

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  • The Cirrhosis Society.

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    Jen

    Nigel’s face was pockmarked and ashen. Yellowed with sickness and decay. You could see in his eyes that he never stood a chance. That he was never going to make it. When he died there was a sense of inevitability, perhaps relief, about it all. Somewhere beneath the purple blotchiness of Toni’s face, beneath the

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  • The coming of age of the climate change debate?

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    Jen

    Communicating climate change has never been easy. Scientific observations of gaping holes in the ozone layer, melting polar ice-caps, increasing global temperatures, extreme weather conditions, coral bleaching, species extinction … all may command the news headlines for a brief dramatic instant, but the strange fact remains that, on the whole, dire warnings as to the

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