twenty-two

'Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.'
Douglas Adams.



this week i have been reading about science in eighteenth-century england, and i came across orreries. although i had seen one before, i never knew what they were called. so, my degree IS useful. aren't they beautiful? they plot the course of the planets around the sun (not in any practical, accurate way; they were meant to look pretty and prove you were clever and educated). an intricate metal solar system. sigh. want.


and now, from the wonderful to the awful. exploring bbc iplayer this evening, i found the blurb for a programme that the bbc have chosen to categorise as history: 'Psychic investigator Andy Matthews and his team go in search of Northern Ireland's ghosts'. EXCUSE ME? HISTORY? i am deeply offended on behalf of my subject. huff.

this is what i wore today:



my dad is from grimsby; the tshirt is like some regional injoke.