A quernstone or handmill seen at the Bagdad Cafe on the road from Palmyra to Damascus
Newton geekery ª One of my roads is missing Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 4 56PM I nip down to the shops and what happens By the time I return the council have nicked my road Planed it clean off Pfah The notice of work was helpfully posted on our doors seven
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Christmas Lectures Day 1 Wednesday 2 Nov 2005 12 12AM T echnically this is day five but I started writing this back on Monday so ach whatever Up at stupid o clock this morning to catch an early flight to London to meet the gang and get cracking on the Christmas Lectures The gang are it transpires a small group of very lovely
Yay I finally managed to work out enough of the back end on which SciCast is built to publish one of the backlog of films we re building up And I must say what with it being all black and
Pictured at left my breakfast this morning Large coffee croissant biscotti magnifying loupe Er yeah Magnifying loupe Bit weird that But it turns out that you can take
Trouble at t Parisian suburbs ª First Rehearsal Friday 4 Nov 2005 10 20PM Y esterday we were in with the lecturer Sir John Krebs bashing our way through the scripts and mucking about with a few simple demonstrations We re at that curious stage where frankly
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In January this thing left clicky to make it bigger will appear on British TV It s a jet powered skateboard It sounds amazing and is altogether hugely cool How exactly am I going to
desc Adrian Weston is studying this site 2004 and though most of the querns are clearly Greensand he has found one upper quernstone of shelly limestone 340mm diam 135mm thick Illus © Adrian Weston by his permission This stone contains shells around 10mm across on the upper surface and on the under surface not seen in the picture shells up to 35mm long
Just in case anyone wondered whether I really set foot in television studios or have faked the whole thing here s me standing in a plausible mock up of a studio the other week That s Carol
be the source of their next job Poor deluded fools Anyway once it transpired that this bunch of newcomers had only been in the studio for staff meetings I found myself pointing upwards That I proclaimed loudly proudly and possibly a little drunkenly Is a lighting grid It s a magnificent toy one of the finest pieces of equipment you ll ever get the chance to play
a pit or possibly the foundation for something which might run underneath other contexts A quernstone was uncovered nearby so it will be interesting to see what this deposit turns out to be A heavily truncated pit was also recorded which proved to be very difficult due to the amount remaining being rather small and narrow There have been several very interesting finds this week
Just not cricket ª Rotodyne Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 11 09PM I finally got around to installing X Plane 7 on my Mac since my PC is 200 miles away and have just spent a happy hour tooling around in of all things a Fairey Rotodyne Top fun
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great surprise I was mostly shooting blind It s gutting because at least one of the shots is sufficiently clear to reveal that it would have been magnificent had it not been shaky However there are still some interesting shots and a few with which I m quite pleased I ll work out what to do with them in the coming days
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Wallpaper Thursday 21 Sep 2006 8 26PM I t s a sign of how busy I ve been or perhaps of how much I ve been enjoying the black stuff that I ve not managed to blog about this all week This dear reader is the wallpaper
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in Europe These last two are I believe the only places in the country one can fly hot air balloons indoors One might be able to at Tate Modern but it looks a bit narrow to my eye However the current installation in the Turbine Hall Rachel Whiteread s Embankment I rather liked Mechanically it s just 14 000 polypropylene boxes stacked up But there s something
Several pieces of quernstone have appeared in previous years but his year has produced our very first intact Base of a Quernstone to add to our collection which would have been used to
These include Iron Age worked stones a quernstone fragments of stone vessels a drilled shaped stone and also spindle whorls of unknown date Nearby there was a flint working site and early maps show several Bronze Age barrows in the vicinity of Mawla Chapel H The current Chapel was built H in 1908 and opened just a year later much of the work being done by the local
jjsanderson: Hate the lens, but love the lobster: http://t.co/NZsXofH7