With much excitement, I was back at the Norman Lockyer Observatory yesterday evening to help show around a group of 20 young Beavers anc cubs and their helpers. It was a real joy to be talking about the Lockyer telescope and enthusing the group about the achievements of Sir Norman. To add to the excitement, …
January Blues
Last Monday was Blue Monday apparently...yet that was the day I felt ready to begin the new year. The mornings are becoming lighter and we are past the Christmas and New Year disruption. The news is dominated by the post office debacle and the beginnings of electioneering. I drafted out a diagram illustrating the problems with the post …
Sat 6 January
Twelfth Night is a day of mayhem and madness and the first glimmers of the mornings becoming lighter. And the first stirrings of the new year getting properly underway with the putting away of Christmas decorations. What are my hopes for the new year? I would love to see more non-fiction, especially popular science on …
January Reflections
January Reflections
Blue Moon
There has been a lot of fuss in the press regarding the blue supermoon...and rightly so! The Moon is a fascinating object and an easy objec to get anyone interested in space and astronomy. I was fortunate to be interviewed on Radio Devon which gave me an opportunity of explaining the phenomenon. When there are …
New Year’s Day 2024
I enter the new year bemused by the reporting of global celebrations as we leave 2023 with wars, cost of living crises, and much uncertainty with forthcoming elections. The increasing commercialisation of bank holidays concerns me as there is always such a build up to Christmas Day with shoppers filling high streets...and then again on Boxing …
w/e 17 September
The week began and ended with a concert to raise funds for Ukraine and a school in Uganda. I described the earlier concert in my previous notes, with the latter a reprise of the first. And no less delightful. In fact, more so, as the pianist was able to use a grand piano rather than …
Exeter Library Stack
Following on from my epic reading marathon of Henry Williamson's awesome saga spanning the social changes from 1880 to 1940s, Jez from Exeter Library has said some kind words about the review I completed and the full version of my guest blog within his 'Sleuthing in the Stacks' blog is available on the Library website …
Reflections w/e 10 September 2023
I remember 10 September 2001 distinctly. It was a Monday and I was enjoying gardening in the warm sunshine. I had a phone conversation with my friend, Ulrike. Life felt good. How all that changed the very next day with the now so-called 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. And, …
Karen Hedges 