Witches, Elves, Wolves and More
Witches, Elves, Wolves and More I can’t recall how old I was when I first heard – or read – the story of Hansel [...]
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08, 2024
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08, 2024
A Map to the End of Time
A Map To the End of Time Serendipity. I had just read two novels by Claire North, Ithaca and House of Odysseus. Like two [...]
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08, 2024
Paradigm Change
Paradigm Change I was beginning my second year at university when I first read Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I was [...]
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08, 2024
Ordinary Vices
Ordinary Vices I was born just before the first of the Baby Boomers generation. They emerged when the Second World War was over, Europe [...]
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08, 2024
The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground Over the past 150 years, we have seen dramatic changes in countries and their governments. As the time of the divine [...]
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07, 2024
Throwing Light on the Matter
Throwing Light On the Matter My father was a physics teacher, and I suspect that it was in one of his collection of books [...]
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06, 2024
The White Album
The White Album No, this isn’t about the Beatles 1968 album The Beatles, which also has the parenthetic subtitle White Album. That collection was [...]
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05, 2024
Colour Blind
Colour Blind Having a father who was a senior school physics teacher could have ensured all sorts of benefits. He could have helped me [...]
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05, 2024
Transitions
Transitions It seems like the very distant past, but when I was a student of geology in my final years of high school, I [...]
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05, 2024
Monkey
DD35 – Monkey What defines a children’s classic book? One published more than fifty years ago and still regarded as ‘great’? Or from more [...]
