Taking stock – 2015
As we roll on down towards the end of the year, I have a feeling I ought to be doing some stock-taking. And wishing all readers a Merry Christmas!
Month: December 2015
Cosmonauts and Astronauts – giant leaps for mankind
Cosmonauts – sailors through the cosmos; astronauts – sailors among the stars. My childhood heroes fly again at the Science Museum in London 2015-2016
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands – a review
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty islands I have not visited and never will by Judith Schalansky – a review and an appreciation of a fascinating book.
I am diminished – in memorium Adrian Hale
This week I am diminished, made smaller, because last Friday I helped to bury my friend. I’d known Adrian since we were 10 years old and at school together.