Tag: Day-to-day
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Ison from Oort
Distance is nothing and size doesn’t matter, all things considered. Well, it is and it does, obviously, but when you think of the vast distances involved in the Universal side of things the overall meaning of the word distance / size becomes somewhat diminished. Take the distance between stars, for instance. They need to be…
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One Minute Ramble: C-cold!
There’s a nursery rhyme that begins: January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow. It was warmer in January than it is now. I’m sure of it. The rhyme continues: February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. We have plenty of rain, so that could be true of any month. But…
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Chamaeleon: A Rogue Planet
You don’t really think of the early Seventeenth Century and connect it to a multi national corporation. Well, I don’t, and I find myself thinking of the early Seventeenth Century quite a lot! However, back in the day, there were one or two multi national corporations in existence. The British had the East India Trading…
Tom
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Swim
A post for Illustration Friday. The theme for this week is Swim… although I’ve gone for the option of illustrating the swimmer, rather than the word swim. Slight difference, but in the same area. Water! In a not too strange land, not too far away, there is a species of humans who live in the…
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A bit of extra colour
So, with all of the excitement of my mini little blogging writing experiment now underway, with the correct cat out of the correct bag (and the other cat wanting desperately to get out of the other one), voting underway and votes already coming in, I can have a rest. Actually, no, I can’t. I can…
Tom