Did anyone make a New Year’s Resolution this year to keep their house, office or computer files cleaner or tidier? I don’t want to discourage you if you have. As everyone who visits my house probably guesses, I have been conducting a scientific experiment for some...
(Apologies for the length of this post. I do love the sound of my own keyboard...
Greetings once again. Being a very privileged person, I have just returned from 10 days in California (husband at scientific convention in San Diego; wife along for the ride). I do not intend to describe the trip here – the place for that is Facebook, face-to-face,...
The second guest on the blog is Ian Storer. All the pictures on the site that are not maps or photographs are his work (see the World, Books and SWM sections). A visit to his website (scipio6.wix.com/scipio-designs) displays more of his artwork in drawing and...
My mother, Ursula Hall, who was a historian, wrote about St Andrew and his somewhat tenuous connection to Scotland. In an unpublished work she commented on the rapid spread of the Christian church in the decades after its founding. “These [the apostles] were the men...
Like most people, I wear many hats (metaphorically). Readers of this blog will have become familiar with the woolly bobble-hat of my Christian/churchwarden mode, and also with the frilly bonnet of my writer-and-reader/book-lover persona. But there are others, and today I’m wearing the flat cap...