Wading Through Treacle

... especially concerning the future, as Niels Bohr is meant to have said. I have been thinking about what could have been predicted in the ...

... to your wife as you groggily wake up. "Oh, there's a woman in my bed. "Do you come courtesy of the hotel?" -- [Too mu...

I have never believed in the kindness of aliens. In any case, the question is the province of evolutionary exobiology rather than the extrap...

This is an Amazon Vine review . Christine Lucas wakes up each morning believing she is a young woman. So who is this middle-aged man sleepin...

Some pictures from lunchtime today. We had Internet radio from Kamloops running on the PC to remind us of Adrian over in Sun Peaks, Canada (...

Christmas Eve, 11.30 p.m. and we're preparing for bed when there's a flash and all the lights go out. Clare and I sit in the living ...

We walked on the road, mostly. The pavement was a skating rink, a thin film of water spread onto compacted black ice. I said to Clare: if yo...

In 2008 I was at the Open University’s Quantum Mechanics (QM) Summer School . Over coffee I confided to one of the tutors that I was pleased...

My mother said on the phone it was sad that we shut the cat in the kitchen overnight. "Poor little freezing thing, it's not as if t...

Clare had decided to join the church-cleaning brigade this morning: a yearly rite before Christmas. As we had eight inches of snow last nigh...