Windflowers

Thursday, 7 December 2023

Dishing the dirt on diaries

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Went through some of my old box of diaries in the garage and was quite depressed by the groaning complaining tone of many of them.  Adolesce...
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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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Born in Canada, went to Australia for a few years, brought up in Northern Ireland, lived on Greek island for ten years.
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