Windflowers
Saturday, 25 November 2023
Tales of the unexpected, Sirius A and B, Dogon people, 1844, twin stars
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My eldest son Nason visited us from Edinburgh last weekend with his four-year-old child, Milo. Apart from loads of cuddles with my grandson...
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Absalom Yancey and the Lady's Newspaper 1850
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We have a family heirloom in our household. It is a collection of the Lady’s Newspaper from the year 1850. Originally it had been carefully ...
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Thursday, 28 September 2023
Shit Lessons
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When I was six, my parents returned from Australia to the village Dungiven, high in the Sperrin mountains in Northern Ireland. On my first d...
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Thursday, 14 September 2023
The Gihon Spring in Jerusalem
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The Gihon Spring is not a constant source of water, it flows occasionally not continually. It is thought that its name comes from the Hebre...
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Sunday, 9 July 2023
The O'Shea brothers, enormously talented, and insuppressibly unconventional
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The museum Building at Trinity College, Dublin was designed by architects, Deane & Woodward however the stone carvings on doors, windows...
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Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Giant by name and giant by nature
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We often look back and think of the ancient structures at Stonehenge (3000 BC to 2000 BC) and wonder about the people who made this impressi...
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Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Started with skirting boards and ended with shoes
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It started many months ago. All I wanted was a bit of paint to touch up the skirting boards in the house, a simple task. However, one tin o...
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