Wading Through Treacle

I'm putting together an article about personality types and the kinds of people who tend to read hard science-fiction. This is also an e...

" Sir Isaac Newton was possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived. But even great men can make mistakes – it’s just that their erro...

For most people, the arc of Steve Jobs’s career is defined by the Apple II, the Macintosh, Toy Story and other Pixar blockbusters, the iPod...

We've been here before . As Clare led the way into the church this morning, she spotted him occupying the pew just before the back one...

Here are some pictures of our house.  Our house from the road    The patio at the side    The back garden    Clare in the kitchen    T...

We saw "Wuthering Heights" (2011) on Tuesday at the Wells Film Centre. The poster below is an accurate depiction of how dreary and...

The days go by and the cat's gozzy tooth refuses to fall out. The one good thing is that as he frightens the voles so much, he neve...

" Michael vectors the hidden camera to a wealthy-looking patron on his first course. A click on the joystick and the second screen ligh...

By now Adrian should be at Sun Peaks, British Columbia, asleep after a 24 hour trip which started at Reading station yesterday in the mornin...

" Once upon a time, one of our most noted authors of ultra-hard SF wrote a novel about a bunch of aliens living in the interior of an a...