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Food Insufficiency

November 12, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m not sure why a trawler and a lighthouse on the horizon made me think of an allotment. But my mind drifted to sustainable food production while we were enjoying a sunrise walk along Dun Laoghaire pier this morning. The allotment in question was somewhere in Kent. I only remember it because of the conversation about North of England trophy fishing I had with a man who was planting potatoes in his well tended section. We talked about other things too. Unusual things like farming and wineries near Otago. And The Knowledge, the legendary taxi driver test in London.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: co2, hawkdun rise, james lovelock, julian baggini, london loop, matt ridley, new zealand, photos, sustainable food, travel, viking program, walking

No Wiser

November 11, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

If Bertrand Russell was right, my uncertainties make me wise. While I’m not sure that’d be true for me, I think I’d trade most of my insights for a degree of certainty. Of course, that’s hypothetical, I don’t have any certainty that I’d make that trade if ever such a time came.

No wiser, I wait in line to plunge to Las Vegas from the top of The Stratosphere © Simon Robinson 2008
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: bertrand russell, hidden rivers, maggi hambling, mary astell, mary wollstonecraft, mary wollstonecraft shelley, movies, philip k dick, public art, samuel taylor coleridge, science fiction, travel, walking

Really!

November 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Hanlon’s razor suggests that we ‘never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’.

I am pleased that some of my correspondents suggest I read articles like this one by John Crace in the Guardian. I am even more pleased to be have been able to live in societies where such truths can be published. Reading words such as ‘lies’ and ‘lying’ in the media reminds me of the privilege I enjoy living in progressive societies that can rely on the protection of punitive defamation laws.

Quantum superposition?
The response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: dissent, genocide, john crace, photos, storytelling, travel, writing

250 and Still Typing

November 5, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This is the 250th journal in my daily succession. It’s a milestone so strange to me that I wondered what to write about. Two hundred and fifty is, more or less, the length of our family pandemic lockdown. It’s the time since I was discharged from prostate cancer care, a milestone trivialised on learning at the same place and time that there was another cancer attacking the family.

Acer Decay
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bronte, cancer, chatsworth, egon schiele, gustav klimt, haworth, photography, royal academy, samuel beckett, travel

Statins and My Cholesterol

October 30, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I had a bad few days recently. But first, since I’m not qualified to have opinions on why my days were so bad, here are a few weasel words.

Caveat emptor: my musings may not be complete let alone correct.

The full story starts with a fear of failure. It starts with the worry that my attempts to manage my cholesterol with diet were failing. It ended with a realisation that I wasn’t able to finish any of my daily journals.

Eye Candy
Kylemore Abbey as revisited in December 2004 with a former student.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: cholesterol, fitbit, pandemic, photos, statins, travel, vegetarianism

Ley Line Walking

October 26, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Once upon a time, there was a truth to be seen while walking along The Ridgeway among hills in Wiltshire. Night wasn’t falling at all. It was rising. The darkness filled the valleys from the floor up. Another time, after walking 35 km from the White Horse at Uffington, I was collected by my friend who lived locally and told me that everyone knew mobile phones don’t work reliably along the ley lines. Had I only known of the ancient ley lines when I got to Avebury?

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: albert einstein, photos, the ridgeway, travel, walking

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