Holiday to Sorrento booked for next April. Icon not entirely unrelated ( Read more... )

I have now officially reached the you-have-got-to-be-joking level in vulcanology. Not only can I recognise key volcanic eruptions from a snippet of film footage, but the other day I recognised old, crap volcano film from approximately three seconds of the credits - which didn't even feature a volcano! This masterpiece, BTW, was "Krakatoa - in the ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back.

Which is what Sam said when he returned from waving bye-bye to Frodo (and company) and the Grey Havens.  Not that I've been anywhere that exotic.  I did have a short break a few miles from Fountains Abbey, and I found the house where my mother's mother was born.  And lots of gravestones belonging to various members of that side of ( Read more... )