Some things bug me. They probably shouldn’t, but they do. And when things puzzle my brain, I’ll try to find out the reason, the answer. Sometimes though, the explanation isn’t always forthcoming. And for those questions and wonderments, I am terminally troubled. Why do tins…
The United Kingdom has some odd place names dotted around, no less so than in the south-west, Cornwall. Every time I venture to the British Riviera, I end up taking a second glance at a signpost as I drive along a winding country road. Here…
Not even two days after my fortieth birthday I get the text to book my Covid-19 vaccine appointments. Two days! They couldn’t even give me the weekend to absorb and acknowledge my age, they had to remind me two days later. But of course, jabs…
The UAE Space Agency’s Hope probe has reached Mars, slowed and adjusted it’s trajectory and entered into a wide orbit around the red planet. This is the first image it sent back to Earth, with the solar system’s largest volcano – Olympus Mons – emerging…
I would never let you just go down like that, This isn’t something that could last. All this stuff I thought and now you dare to ask it back, You are a dying star to us. I would never let you just go down like…
I didn’t publish my glass of scotch to Facebook this year, it felt a little inappropriate given everything that is happening in the world right now. This year is the fifth since my brother passed – and I do like to remember with a wee…
Heading to Brewdog for a tasty glug of Punk IPA and some chicken wings. Plenty of chicken wings. Another serving of wings. And beer. Keep the beer coming. More beer. Can never have enough beer. Can I have some more wings, please? And another beer…
I just got around to watching Fleabag. I shouldn’t have left it so long. I binged on both series over consecutive nights. It was marvellous. The writing is first class. Fleabag (narrating): I once read a story from the paper to Boo and Hilary about…
As I dialled in and focussed the view finder, Mars began to form with increasing clarity in my eye. It’s red and barren landscape giving up stories which detail millions upon millions of years of history. And as I was able to track the red…
The first captured glance of another solar system that is, at least in part, similar to our own. Although astronomers have long glimpsed at other stars, many have very few planets orbiting them, often perhaps only one. Or those that have multiple planets, but orbiting…
The Day The Earth Smiled is named for July 19th, 2013, when NASA asked the Cassini space probe to turn around and capture part of Saturn’s rings and planet Earth during a solar eclipse. Much like with the Voyager mission capturing the Pale Blue Dot…
