OffTheShelf

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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

• Book Review – How to Draw a Map (sort of…)
  This is an attractively produced book which desperately needed an editor.
• Book Review – Neurodivergence, a view from within
  Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships By Dr Camilla Pang Viking/Penguin Books, 2020 (239… Continue reading Book Review – Neurodivergence, a view from within
• Book Review – First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps
  “What a country chooses to display on its postage stamps can be revealing in itself, and often what is not shown is most telling.”
• Book review – Reductionism: A Beginner’s Guide
  by Alistair I M Rae, 2013, Oneworld Beginners Guides This is a well-organised and clear book, but I was disappointed… Continue reading Book review – Reductionism: A Beginner’s Guide
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
  What links this Ethiopian postage stamp, the Trojan War, Thomas the Tank Engine and Pink Floyd?

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…