All the Books I Read in 2015
This is a list of the 30 or so books that I managed to read all the way through during 2015, together with a little information about, each of them.
The Ghana Christmas ball and my father Christmas
The Ghana Christmas ball was the first Christmas present I remember receiving. I was six years old and I was given the ball by my Father Christmas.
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!
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.
Lockdown
In which we review the lockdown – so called – that Brussels has recently been experiencing, and view the cat meme and bad photos from around the city.
Mid-November
A new update of events in October and November with links to recently active blogs and recently published blog entries and photos.
Paris, photos and terror – a meditation
Paris: A look back to a visit Mrs SC and I made in May, a photo essay and some thoughts about the recent terror attack there.
Antiques
In which, still in Brighton, we visit a cafe where once was an antiques shop that I worked in: stories of the two proprietors 40 years ago.