by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Personal
I think it is right and just that the major constellation above us in Crete was Pegasus. Let’s hope it’s the same in Italy…
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Government, Personal
1) I just found out that an old university friend is now deputy director of digital diplomacy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office just as my new report is published. 2) I discovered (by quite some roundabout means) that the place we are staying to sing in the...
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Personal, Science
Time lapse of the night sky above a telescope array in Chile. We got some very, very lovely night skies in Crete, but nothing quite like these. The second one demonstrates that the Magellanic clouds are visible to the naked eye. That’s my next must see in the...
by Tom | Aug 27, 2010 | Personal, Reviews
The Chalet des Anglais is a little-known Oxford institution: a large wooden structure, still with no electricity, at Le Prarion near Mont Blanc. It is used by Balliol, New and University colleges (the properly old set). My friend Owen has just been there, and it...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2010 | Personal
xkcd: All the Girls is not far off my wedding day speech. D’oh. I did officially correct myself seven years later. (I started off my wedding speech by saying that Wiffy “was one of my favourite people”. This didn’t go down well. I thought my...
by Tom | Aug 17, 2010 | Personal, Science
Life on the waiting list is a series about a kidney transplant. (It is slightly wrong that this is in the Life and Style section of the Grauniad: there’s not much stylish about it.) I have a friend with exactly the same condition (IgA nephropathy) as the author....
