The planet Kibou-daini is obsessed with cryonics – any member of population can expect to be frozen before or just after death (depending on how much you can pay, of course), and these not quite dead citizens still feature in the voting rights of where they’re stored. When one of the cryo-companies tries to expand […]
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I normally publish my wildflower photos on my other blog, but that’s really for local flowers. When I was in England, I definitely took plenty of wildflower photos, so I’m going to publish them here, in the style I would normally do on the other site. This is probably going to be a work
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In which the Temperate House is reopened after five or so years, and we finally make it over to the Princess of Wales Conservatory. My adventures in transport getting either to or from Kew also continued. This time, there was a fault on the line after Earl’s Court, so we ended up taking a
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In which we were poured upon. But it was the only day of rain, so I’ll take it.
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This book chronicles the natural history movements in the era leading up to Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle, and how the advances in technology of that time created a craze for finding new species, and what that meant for science. Darwin certainly wasn’t the only game in town. You meet a number of other naturalists
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This is a book of short stories, rather annoyingly including the novella length “Something Rich and Strange” – which I already own in a stand alone illustrated edition. I like that story, but I wish I’d had more new material to read. My favorite story was “The Gorgon in the Cupboard” – the tale of
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Nahri is an orphan, living on the streets of Cairo at the turn of the 19th century. She’s managed to make a decent life for herself as a thief – pretending just enough mystic powers to swindle rich people worried about their health out of money. She knows she’s different than her neighbors – she
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Our bank holiday day trip. In which I am totally distracted by medieval stonework.
England 2018, Day 1 – Oxford Read More »
I’m back from a week in England. We put this trip together in about a month’s time. Our friend K was supposed to come over here, and just couldn’t make it work. BF had already taken the time off (and I knew I could), so we decided to go to her instead.
