The giants are back

At base, this investigation is above reconnnecting with the land, and in my case that is the part of the country I grew up in, the chalklands of England. So […]

And did those feet…

Well, it’s been awhile since the last post, but with the sun out and spring in the air it’s now time to get going again. It was in the preface to […]

The sharpest of edges

I am looking at this piece of agate, but thinking about flint (which is not so dissimilar in many ways, both are crystalline forms of silica). Flint is a feature […]

A Coccolith Odyssey

There are some single-celled algae that produce intricate circular discs of calcite inside themselves before secreting them onto their surface (see here) for…well, nobody really knows: defence? exchange? sheer delight in […]

X marks the spot

This is where the Observatory is going to be placed. Right next to the Science Centre (a structure that Dr No would have been proud to use at his HQ) […]