Thanks to DASH who partnered up with Ipswich astronomical, Michael and I listened to Chris Lintotte from our own front rooms. The Crowd that Chris waxes lyrical here, are the citizen scientists who under the project Zooniverse, look out from their own back yards at a tapestry of stars, map them and together find sense… Continue reading Chris Lintott – The Crowd and the Cosmos
A Facebook post from Ronnie 5 August: Dear Friends, just a quick note to let you know I will no longer be posting or commenting on Facebook. I have been diagnosed with Stage 4 Terminal Cancer of the right Adrenal gland (Cushing Syndrome) and have today been transferred to an Hospice only about 2 miles… Continue reading
Recalling Chhairo
This is a testament to the help given by Subha Narsingh Bhattachan to us in Nepal 1998-2004 in context of the Chhairo Gompa and Sugata. I first met Subha Narsingh Bhattachan in the midst of the extraordinary story of Sugata. We were writing his life story together, which concentrated on the most dramatic events during… Continue reading Recalling Chhairo
Good bye Faraday Road
I said goodbye to Faraday Road.An unlikely sojourn in my life, in London's east endAnd pure utility. I'd visited once in 10 years. It's London lolly gave me the recourse to live up here in Suffolk.I recall being annoyed sometimes when I had to attendTo repair something broken. Barry helped sort it. Barry. From Wandstead… Continue reading Good bye Faraday Road
Magnolia House
Spot the dog! Michael entered into the spirit. 'I don't want some dry estate agent speak' so he wrote his own text, and added a touch in each room.' Loads of the hall way and black and white dogs.
Overstory
Like the critics the book group were split, most of them giving a score of 2! Their reasons were an effective challenge. Is the character/action detail peripheral and distracting? (Phillips main critic) But not all, and both Jo and Maggie got much out of the book. Needless to say, I did too and continue to.… Continue reading Overstory
DASH astro July 2020 Sun
Dr Helen Mason - astro physisist. Fellow of St Edmunds College Cambridge. OBE 2014 (Higher education) Teaches OU. Research into solar physics analysis of ultra violet. Working on Joint Japanese satellite. Reaching for the Sun Solar Probes: SOHO 1995 TRACE 1998 RHESII 2002 Solar Probe / Solar Orbitor Prime constituents - Hydrogen with small amount… Continue reading DASH astro July 2020 Sun
Typical Suffolk from a non typical Suffolk
David Green gave me this brief: I need to find three "born and bred" Suffolkers and three people, like yourself, who have moved to the county from elsewhere. The request would be for you to write a few lines about what you regard as the typical traits of "born and bred" Suffolk people, based on… Continue reading Typical Suffolk from a non typical Suffolk
Lockdown Monty Python with the family
Kathy's idea. She loved the Roman sketch. Michael chose the Agatha Christie, which was abitious as loads of characters, and impossibly quick hat changes - if only we'd stuck to hat (not hat, scarf, moustache, wig, glasses). I took some closeups of a dead Inspector Tiger, Chief Inspector Theresamanbehindaya, Constable Lookout. Backed by two non… Continue reading Lockdown Monty Python with the family
One of our Aircraft – Robin Holmes book
Yet again, my past returns and weaves in and out of my present, even into a future. It's Richard again, who keeps popping up unexpectedly. Little did I know then how this would echo on, within our private conversations over Guinness in pubs around Bexhill where he'd come to retire and ultimately to die in.… Continue reading One of our Aircraft – Robin Holmes book
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