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Clapping to a different beat?
There have been a couple of evenings recently when UK residents have been encouraged to go outside and clap and cheer for all our wonderful health workers who are doing such a great job. This is, in...
View ArticleRevelling in Ravel
There have been lots of wonderful examples during lockdown of the musicians from bands and orchestras recording individual parts at home which are then edited together into a combined performance. John...
View ArticleGeek wisdom of the day
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use multithreading’. Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems. Eiríkr Åsheim
View ArticleThe two most useful web pages for understanding the world today?
There are an awful lot of people just complaining about things at present. They’re either complaining about other people going to beaches and parks, or they’re complaining about their politicians, who...
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Waning gibbous
The moon above Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, on Friday night. Click to enlarge.
View ArticleCoronavirus and cavemen
It seems only a few years ago that, when I walked around my house, the lights wouldn’t turn on automatically! For younger readers, I should explain that in the past you actually had to go to a...
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Towards self-sufficiency
We get nice deliveries of vegetables from a local supplier. One day, we got a couple of butternut squashes. Rose fished a few of the seeds out of the bin and planted them. Soon, we won’t need to get...
View ArticleSports commentary still going on…
Andrew Cotter, the well-known UK sports commentator, posted this rather nice video on his Twitter feed, not having much else to comment on at present....
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Spare a thought for the politicians
I am constantly bemused by the number of naïve people who want to blame politicians for all the evils of the world, and especially those medical evils that are besetting us at the moment. As I pointed...
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A remote dawn
Around Christmas and New Year, I was in Scotland in my campervan. I took lots of video footage. Far too much, in fact, so I’ve been gradually working my way through it, on and off, for several months....
View ArticleDaddy, what did you do in TIYOIY?
Sometimes, I find, it’s worth looking back into my blog archives to ponder how the great events of the past have affected the world since. Do you remember, for example, when we declared 2009 to be...
View ArticleThe Biggest Event You’ve Never Heard Of?
In a slightly-related follow-up to my recent repost from the archives… Yesterday, apparently, was ‘Earth Day’. I missed this fact — you may have done so too — but, unlike my brother, I had actually...
View ArticleThe Liar Tweets Tonight
This is just brilliant… This post has some comments on the Status-Q site. Follow the link to the original post to see them.
View ArticleIn the beginning…
My family are a constant source of useful information. My nephew James tells me he’s just discovered that it’s ‘World Design Day’. (He’s a designer and nobody had mentioned it to him before now....
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