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Posted on 13 August 202120 September 2024

The Expanse: A personal distress call

When I first watched The Expanse, I didn't get on board right away. Yes, the science sounded good, but like a Belter from Ceres trying to survive in Earthโ€™s gravity, trying to fit together the pieces of this puzzle was literally crushing me. I needed to find my Rosetta Stoneโ€ฆand not just for the dialects. To …

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Posted on 1 April 202121 February 2025

The Golden Age of Mr Benn

Mr Benn as a spaceman on a gold and jewel covered planet

Mr Benn may have good reason to dress up in costume this year, because 2021 marks 50 years since the bowler-hatted British businessman's adventures in a fancy-dress shop first aired on TV in 1971. The now celebrated antics of Mr Benn were first introduced in a series of children's books in 1967, followed by an …

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Posted on 4 March 202120 September 2024

The Door into Summer (2021)

The Door Into Summer1 - Petronius The Arbiter - the cat

Having been treated to an uncharacteristic flurry of snow during a February cold snap in London, made worse by the sedentary lifestyle imposed by the coronavirus lockdown, I was looking forward to opening the door into spring. Instead, I chanced upon the trailer for The Door into Summer, the first ever film adaptation of the …

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Posted on 25 February 202118 March 2025

Time Enough for Writing a Sonnet

Text of Sonnet #18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) by William Shakespeare

Feeling somewhat frustrated during lockdown 3.0 in the UK, I picked up Robert Heinlein's Time Enough for Love to read again. In the book's Intermission, entitled Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Heinlein's character sets out a list of skills of the competent man, those he thinks a human being should have up his …

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