There is an episode of Star Trek where a character is for plot reasons trapped in a shrinking parallel universe. As time passes, people she knows one by one just vanish and she is the only one who seems to notice. Eventually it gets to an absurd point. She asks if it really makes sense if a ship made for a thousand...

JB and I raising a glass in Totnes My Ma & JB met me at Totnes station. Zaida was full of beans and hugs. She had just had a haircut and was busy sorting things out before before they drove to France for a holiday tomorrow. At the 'happy yellow house' we had tea and biscuits before going for a walk to the weir and...

I just finished a great little book from John Cleese called Creativity: A short and cheerful guide. In it, he talked about a book and idea from Guy Claxton, called "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind" (Which now is on my reading list). The idea is that the "Hare Brain" involves 'figuring matters out, weighing up the pros and...