December 2010
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Highlights of 2010
Structure of DNA described 13 years before the theory of plate tectonics
Cambridge University Wine Society Annual Dinner at Clare College with Maison Joseph Drouhin
Discovering Southwell Minster
TEDxCam
Italian Renaissance Drawing at The British Museum
John Rutter on The Psalms
Henry Moore at Tate Britain
Lana on Roche Continents
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what...
A paragraph, recorded.
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It is still relatively early, and yet I find myself in bed. Bringing the computer here is a bad habit. One that I have yet to break. A wise man said that your bed should be for sleep and sex only. If only. My legs are heavy. They miss the regular pulse of the daily bicycle commute. A discarded rowing machine, a father’s folly, stares at me from across the room. “Tomorrow” I say, as I said...
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“When I drive across this country, with autumn falling and rustling to pieces, I...”
– DH Lawrence, November 1915. On driving to Garsington Manor.
Thea Gilmore — The Book of Christmas
A...
“I am looking forward to Christmas break: to sleep, to exercise, to books, to...”
– Haunted
Amen to that.