Administrative The leeches are out in force 24 Apr 2008 Have a look at the title bar at the top of this page. If it doesn’t say “Scienceblogs” or “Evolving Thoughts”, then you are reading it via a leech site that does nothing but steal the words I and other carefully craft, like this one. Now in my case while… Read More
Administrative A nice experience 12 Oct 2007 My mate Ian Musgrave, Astroblogger and expert in several fields of science, and his lovely family, are up visiting rellies in Queensland from the arid wasteland that is Adelaide. We all went on a bushwalk and while we were eating apples at the top of the cliff, we saw a… Read More
Administrative Australian Easter bits 9 Apr 2009 A young gorilla escaped from his enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo last night and wandered about for 20 minutes while craven visitors hid out. I would have sat and waited for him to introduce himself. And paid good money for the chance. A moron by the name of Cardinal George… Read More
If you check my blog, I’ve been there. There’s even a blue plaque (not for me, but for Willoe Rushton, humorist).
Are you trying to make me homesick? I spent several years of my youth, misspent naturally, living between Tottenham Court Road and (Sunny) Goodge Street (spot the song title?) tube stations, to begin to the right of Tottenham Court Road going north, in Bloomsbury, and later to the left in what the locals call Fitzrovia but which is officially North Soho. The pop art mosaics in Tottenham Court Road Tube Station were designed by Eduardo Paolozzi with whom I flew kites during the endless summer of my childhood in a backwater hamlet on the Essex marshes. He also did the bronze statue of Blake’s Newton in the courtyard of the British Library. A sculture combining my favourite poet and my favourite scientist. There’s a small copy in the entrance to the Royal Society Library You’ve never been to Mornington Crescent until you’ve climbed the stairs because the lifts were out of order!
Well, it is Friday, so we should be using the long lines at the bank protocol, with the early weekend getaway variation. Anticipating this, I used the ask for the afternoon off substitution so I call a remote Sydney Fish Market.