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Welcome to this occasional blog to capture the random thoughts of an eternal student. Please enjoy my reflections on books and ideas, music, physics, linguistics, astronomy, philately etc. and feel free to throw in your own comments and ideas.
‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (chapter 1)
grandpops-bookshelf posts
- The Queen is Dead, long live …The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes (Picador, 2017) A story as old as time bears retelling. A mother’s grief,… Continue reading The Queen is Dead, long live …
- Faster Higher StrongerEndure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson (Harper Collins 2018/2020) The four minute… Continue reading Faster Higher Stronger
- Charged with meaningGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound (How To Read, 1931) The… Continue reading Charged with meaning
- Stories tumbled by the tides of timePhilip Hoare’s digressions and tangents balloon into sea monsters, bigger than the narrative boat we thought he was steering.
- Lost & FoundWayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond (Picador, 2020) We are… Continue reading Lost & Found
My Other Blogs…
One strand of nonsense is not enough (as no-one ever said) but there are other related sites here that each have a different focus. Please feel free to browse.
Cover Stories
This is a site which celebrates stamps, covers and postal history. It will contain selections from my various collections, the joy of snail mail, and many and various postcards that arrive through our letter box.
Link: Home – Cover Stories (grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk)
Green Wight Red
[SORRY – THIS ONE, LIKE ME, HAS BEEN RETIRED]
This was a site which captured updates on the annual parade of Fantasy Road Cycling Grand Tours. This began as a competition amongst colleagues, and later extended to welcome friends, family and others equally transfixed by the elite peloton. It was based upon a fantasy cycling site called velogames. Participants voluntarily submitted to my unhelpful commentary which was too easily distracted by flags. Oh what fun we had…