Monthly Archives: November 2016
The Commune
Last night we went to Reading Film Theatre to see The Commune. It’s quite a while since I have been; the programmes have been quite variable in the past few years. For a while it seemed not much different to … Continue reading
Rocket Science
Book Review: Relativity – The Special and the General Theory, by Albert Einstein (with introduction by Nigel Calder) Special relativity was one of the first topics I studied as an undergraduate, and one of the few that didn’t require mathematics … Continue reading
Topsy Turvy
Book Review: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley This was another volume that was already on my “to-read” list when I found it in the work book sale. It is London, 1883: Thaniel Steepleton is a telegraphist working … Continue reading
Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds
Last night we went to see the Michael Nyman Band at the Barbican. It’s a few years since I’ve been there but not much has changed. In the balcony, pairs of red LEDs staring towards us from the lighting deck … Continue reading
It is better to travel hopefully than it is to arrive
Book Review: The Road to Oxiana, by Robert Byron If my previous book was an imitation of the 1930s, then this is the real thing, being the diary of Byron’s journey with Christopher Sykes starting at Venice, across the Middle-East … Continue reading
First and Second Law (of Thermodynamics) 