Category: Wonderings

• February 26, 2015

  I Am Not a Scienceman

  I’m reading a book about science. Cor, s’bit bloody hard. It’s A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, so it’s as layman as thermodynamics and half-lives and relativity can be. But my brain just doesn’t bend that way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Bill Bryson is a genius with…
• February 26, 2015

  Slow Writing: The Unfortunate Alchemist

  And then, at the very moment that Charles had thought he’d cracked it, the crockpot began to smoke quite disconcertingly. Who would have thought alchemic enlightenment could be so evasive? For poor Charles, the process was yet a veritable maze of dead ends, trapdoors and coal cellars. To think that he’d held the secret in…
• February 23, 2015

  Slow Writing Is Back!

  Sir, if I may: these shrewd words of yours – which have impressed us much – serve to further our cause not a jot. Half have left our heads, a full quarter have stood as garnish…why, I do believe our party is replete and sated after your canapé tableau of a speech. Moving uncomfortably swiftly…
• February 20, 2015

  #SkinnyBirdWatching

  https://twitter.com/TakingShapeUK/status/568688125846949888 You remember my post entitled Kate Upton is Not Fat, from a long time ago? Well, I was reminded of it today as Taking Shape, plus size clothing retailer and ‘normal body size’ campaigner (sure, because more plus size ladies mean more sales, amirite?), slowly but surely imploded under the pressure of an ill-thought-out…
• February 20, 2015

  Some Cloves