Even though I have retired from day to day physics teaching I still intend attending courses when I can. On Wednesday 15th February I was luckily able to attend a presentation on a new initiative, Astro Academy: Principia, by the National space academy held at the Royal Astronomical Society. https://www.ras.org.uk/ http://nationalspaceacademy.org/ The National Space Academy […]

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A disadvantage of being married is that I sometimes have to go to things that I would rather not, such as opera (although I usually get a pair of earrings out of it – https://www.coventgarden.london/shopping/les-neredies). Now when I was younger I didn’t mind so much but my patience seems to have decreased with age and […]

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February 11th If you read my last post you may have realised that my blog will not just be about physics now. Please don’t assume that this is because I am fed up with physics. This is absolutely not the case. You will find that most of my posts will still be about this wonderful […]

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For most of my life I have battled depression. The overwhelming cause has been the feeling of inadequacy but today I realised that the cause now is the state of the world around me. I try thinking that I have more years behind me than in front and that I have no children but then […]

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