Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon

 Over at Concatenation, Jonathan Cowie very kindly invited me to select a list of my favorite scientists born in the twentieth century. I fo...

 This excellent bird book was a family favorite in the 1970s. I believe it was purchased on a holiday in Barmouth, North Wales. It came back...

 Robert Fripp in a beard playing a ZZ Top cover. (Toyah and Robert's Sunday Lunch videos have been one of the few bearable things about ...

 The Mars Perseverance rover... is as far from Viking... As Viking is from the 1931 Schneider Trophy seaplane:

 A lovely present (an "ES-335 figured" Epiphone) from my wife:

 I'd like to thank all who left kind comments following the news from January. Although it's been a difficult time for the family, r...

 I heard this song on a plane a few years ago. I was so smitten with it that I bought the album before flying home, and I've not regrett...