Discovering where I'm at

Anthony at Z1NZ0L1N is hosting the IndieWeb Blog Carnival with Where you at? and it's absolutely fascinating. I love this, I could write a hundred different things about it. Where you at? is a twenty question test on 'basic environmental perception of place'. I got eleven: A fairly firm grasp of the obvious. I wanted to think about why I got that score. It comes from my interest in local history, gardening, and the influence of my grandfather on my family. He was very outdoorsy and knowledgeable about nature, and we all benefit from that still. I owe him an enormous debt and I think about that a lot. Were my interests a little different, my result would be very different. Why don't I know what I don't know? Some of it I don't really need to know so I've never learnt. But I might need to learn - wildfires are going to become more and more of a problem. Some is more scientific than I've ever been - I don't even know what a soil series is, what that actually means. Never mind what my…

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