It is a Beautiful Cosmos.

Yes, it is a most Beautiful Cosmos.

Ivor Cutler's songs and poems...Brilliant!

Time to move on.

"Perky" the Perkins engined camper van

Looks like this little beauty will be up for sale soon!

It's been a great little camper, but now it's time someone else made some memories with her.

She has served us well, never breaking down, always starting first time.

In the nearly two years that we have owned her, she has only required a new exhaust box and pipe.

Though she does have what I call "progressive" steering -  it does wander slightly!

Also no power steering, sluggish turning at slow speed and no turbo means she is really bad at going up steep hills.

There are one or two hills around here I wouldn't even contemplate.

In camper van terminology, she is "getting on a bit".    


We will be sorry to see her go, but she leaves us with many happy memories:

Analogue Haiku

I found some of my analogue 5-7-5 haiku poems.

Thought I would put them on the blog.

These haiku were written sometime over the past four years.

It not only rained all day.. It rained for about three months solid!

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Nothing beats a woodburning fire. 

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Sitting on a park bench, lovely view that day, bees buzzing, Sun shining, perfect.

Though we would have enjoyed it a bit more if not for the lingering faint smell of warm sun dried dog crap!  

Ahh the joys of a British Summer down on the beach.

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Photo taken on Selsey Beach, West Sussex. Beautiful day.

Mr Cormorant happily sits and ponders the Universe.

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Analogue vs Digital.

A typical analogue Haiku capture device.

Computers love them or Hate them, they are here to stay.

I love the computer, I hate the computer, I don't want a computer, I need a computer!!

Never happy with the digital, always a niggling in the back of the mind that I'm being conned into accepting the tablets, iphones, WiFi, Internet etc.

I realise I'm being a hypocrite, for here I am typing away on a laptop, and posting on a blog.

No matter... I use the computer like I use a car. It gets me from A to B.

But a typewriter is a whole different machine. 

Those old analogue type machines have a life of their own.

Clunky keys, smooth keys, no electric or batteries required. 

Always ready to type, low maintenance, plus they can withstand lots of key bashing. 

Plus, if you happen to tip a whole mug of tea over a typewriter it will more than likely continue to happily punch out words.  Try that with a laptop, and you can guess what would happen!.

The laptop I write on will probably last a couple of years, if I look after it!

My old "Baby Empire" typewriter on the other hand is already 83 years old and still going strong.

Is the climate changing?

An entry from one of my favourite astronomy books "The Stars Night by Night" by Joseph H. Elgie.

This is his journal entry for May 1st 1907!  113 years ago to the day....WOW!

Climate change concern has been around for longer than I thought !


Also note how climate change was apparently an "old, old question" even back in 1907 !