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Shambles

March 9, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Imagine being a year locked down for a pandemic and two and a half years into retirement. You’d probably get a tad frustrated at being unable to do things you postponed for a decade or two before retiring. Things like exploring new (to me) places and new (to me) arts. Or challenges like going to Rome on foot from Manchester. Of course I’m free to explore new (to me) ideas by way of books and a web of electronic transmissions (without which I couldn’t order the books).

Anachronisms near Westminster.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, dublin international film festival, gregory monro, lewis thomas, photos, stanley kubrick, walking

Grievable Pigs

March 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There may be a photo out there somewhere of me sitting by a deer, holding the rifle I used to shoot it dead. That’s because I was brought up as a hunter and such a photo would have been a trophy. In truth, my family started my hunting early.

My preferred trophy: Andrew Carnegie donated the 1905 cast of the Diplodocus skeleton to the Natural History Museum in London and I was lucky enough to dine beneath it several times.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: fishing, hunting, judith butler, karachi, natural history museum, photos, the pig site, travel, ungrievable

Hens’ Teeth

March 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I had to go to the dentist recently because a damaged molar needed attention. A week later, I returned to have no more than a few proud microns of enamel polished down in order that my jaw would close properly.

Jaws are truly remarkable things. Ask a jawless lamprey sucking on mud soup if they suffer jaw envy. Ask an oral cancer patient if they’d thought much about their jaws before calamity struck?

A titanium mandible in an oral cancer survivor.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, cancer, dublin dental hospital, lia mills, melvyn bragg, photos

The Garden Issued

February 26, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Chapbook or photozine? I wish I’d thought of calling them the former before I started publishing photozines. And I wish we’d thought to set up Bracket Books Ireland long before now. Either way, we intend to fail better next time.

Garden went into the post-office yesterday. It’s the second book, the February edition, for the current subscribers. I’d anticipated the pandemic-slowed postal services would make local deliveries on March 1st. It seems that nothing is predictable and miraculously, some arrived today.

Cover of Garden Photozine
Yes, these were taken at home during the pandemic.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks, Fake Memoir Tagged With: cancer, chapbook, fabhappy, issued, npr, photos, photozines

Kayak, Dinghy or Boots?

February 25, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I admitted here recently that I had aspired to kayak around Ireland. A week later, Michael Viney had an article in the Irish Times that caused me to acquire a story of an actual journey around Ireland by Kayak. The secret sauce.

Bulloch Harbour Kayaks headed to Dalkey Island
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, david flanagan, GIS, irish times, lorna siggins, michael viney, peter lynch, photos, richard creagh, timmy flavin, walking, wild atlantic way

Screensavers and Proteins Part 1

February 19, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I can type because there are proteins that help me do it. The proteins in question enable my muscles to contract and slide over one another among other mundane tasks. They do the same for you and all of our proteins deserve enormous respect. And despite enormous research efforts, we don’t yet know enough about proteins.

Dun Laoghaire Winter 20091228 © Simon Robinson
Canon 450D | Canon 55-250 F4-5.6 IS | 194 mm | 1/15s | f/5.6 | ISO 400 | handheld
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: CERN, computing, Covid-19, moore's law, photos, vijay pande

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