Saturday, May 26, 2007

Visit to Woodhenge and Avebury

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We visited Woodhenge and Avebury this afternoon before the Bank Holiday was finally washed-out by rain. We had previously visited both sites...
Friday, May 25, 2007

The Waste Land

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I have been considering The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot (click here ). The Wikipedia article ( here ) describes it as “a highly influe...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Amazon shopping

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" Black Man " Richard Morgan; Paperback; £11.99. Richard Morgan astounded us all with his special-forces mercenary Takeshi Kovacs ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

WiFi probably stains your teeth too

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Still fuming after watching this evening's BBC-1 Panorama programme about the alleged dangers of WiFi, especially in schools (our kids!)...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Dr Brian Stableford at The Lights

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Clare and myself went to see Dr Brian Stableford at 'The Lights' in Andover yesterday evening: the title was something like Science ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Jane Austen's prayer at St. Nicholas' Church

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Text of Jane Austen's prayer on the wall at St. Nicholas' Church, Steventon, Hampshire. "Give us grace almighty father, so to p...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

Bridge To Terabithia

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Set in the rural United States some years ago, this "children's story" is about the developing friendship of a shy talented ar...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer visited “The Lights”, Andover, yesterday evening to speak to a 150+ audience: mostly women and mostly devotees. GG is a livin...

Failure or Mismatch?

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Tuesday evening we drove up to Cambridge, where I had an interview the following day with a consultancy company. I have to say I did not hav...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Climate change as a 'normal' problem

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Of course we can fix climate change. How? Well, what's the difference between the way we live now and scraping a living hunting-and-gath...