to quote Caroline Herschel. There’s a buzz in the media over the rare green comet that’s whizzing past us right now. It’s fuelled in part by the colour (almost certainly not visible to the eye (especially from light polluted regions)), and in part by spectacular images from big telescopes. I like comets, and try to …
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Walking Dagenham Week 1
One thing I’d forgotten about the back-roads of Dagenham is the almost fractal nature of them, roads branch off side roads that branch off a close that branch off a cul-de-sec (or banjo, in the colloquial). I’ve decide I’ll only walk those that have a road, I don’t want to venture up pedestrian only areas, …
Photography
I’ve been fascinated by photography ever since I saw a neighbour’s Polaroid camera in the early 1980s. I’m not sure I understood what I was seeing then, but the idea that you could get a picture immediately stuck with me. Growing up, we had a family camera, but it was rarely used due to the …
Lockdown 3, Week 1
I didn’t document lockdown two, as it really didn’t seem to change things much. Work happened as normal, my cycling dropped off somewhat due to the weather and other issues, and I started using the tube again to get to the lab. The District Line heading west was mostly empty unless you hit particular times; …
Quarantine – Week eight
A week that really didn’t register. Monday 2020/5/04 I took a photo of the moon. Tuesday 2020/5/05 I did something. Dunno what though. I really should keep better notes. Probably wrote code all day. Wednesday 2020/5/06 I took a photo of the the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) Thursday 2020/05/07 The day must have happened, but I …