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Walking Ireland

April 3, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Frank Mitchell was the Professor of Quaternary Studies when I was a geology student in Trinity College, Dublin. When he retired in 1979, I was already overseas, working in Sharjah. A few job changes and a dozen years later, I was back in Ireland so to speak. In fact, I was commuting to work overseas and never found employment in Ireland in the coming thirty years.

Chocolate. I’d walk a long way for good Parisian chocolate.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, frank mitchell, geology, national trust, peter lynch, portstewart, travel, walking

Sloane Square Breakfast

February 3, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

If you visited with us over a weekend while we lived in London, it’s likely that you joined us for breakfast in Colbert. It’s a restaurant that we often visited for breakfast but never went at any other meal times.

Peace descending on the Quadriga of War
atop Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
Fuji X-T3 | MTO-11CA | 1600 mm | 1/4000s | f/10 | ISO 6400 | handheld (pano of 9 frames)
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: colbert, geology, street photography, walking, wellington

Stones and Stories

February 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

You might collect stones that caught your eye. I do and have brought many pebbles home to our garden. My favourite is from Milford Sound, favoured for its exotic nature and the likelihood that I’ll never visit New Zealand again. The 200 million year old pebble I took from Milford was likely first shaped by passing glaciers 20,000 years ago. Then again, more local beach pebbles can be interesting too. Can you imagine what they’ve experienced in 100 million year lifetimes?

‘Neither pebbles nor turtles are pointless’ or so I wrote when I posted this tableau to Instagram on June 3rd, 2018.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: geology, photos, travel, writing

On Yeasts and Ophiolites

October 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Yeasts as carbon dioxide strippers. What a concept! Suddenly you are thinking of National Collection of Yeast Cultures in Norwich or the Center for Bread Flavour outside Brussels? Wrong countries. I’m thinking of Austria. But first, we’ll need to go to the UAE, Oman and Cyprus where you might be able to see rocks soaking up CO2.

Older still. Corals rise again, unseen for 350 million years.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, chris stillman, co2, deep carbon observatory, fred vine, geology, geophysics, photo, pichia pastoris, planet b, thomas gassler, travel, yildirim dilek

Photos and Maps

September 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Every time I open my laptop, I see a price list of Cecil Beaton’s photographs. A bare printed list of 76 pictures that I saw in an exhibition of his photographs in April, 2017. The folded paper prevents the keyboard imprinting itself on the screen.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: cecil beaton, charles darwin, geology, huxley-parlour, london, michael kenna, pesgb, photography, royal academy, simon winchester, vivian maier, william smith, zhang kechun

The Shakes

September 5, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years, a decade before the devastating Northridge earthquakes rolled out from a huge slip on a hitherto undetected fault.

Our first home was in the foothills of the fault-bounded San Gabriel Mountains. The office was close to the Raymond Fault. Despite such proximity to future earthquake epicentres, we never experienced any severe ground shakes though the potential for them lurked large in our subconscious.

Reaching for a beer in an earthquake?
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: earthquake, geology, geophysics, japan, new zealand, photo, travel, usa

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