Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read, inspired me or just sparked my interest in the previous week, with a little background and my thoughts and other things that I’ve been up to in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.
Life In General.
Lots of health related stuff this last week which I’ve already talked about. More stuff with both my Dad’s and Grandma’s estates. I suspect that this is going to be an ongoing theme for many weeks and months.
Work.
It’s been a busy week. One of the proposals I’d been working on fell through because of some unethical practice on behalf of the potential client. I won’t say anymore on that at this point because I’m not sure that I have the full picture in terms of the background to the decisions (plus I’m a little mad about it).
On the plus side I had a really great meeting with a group of students from Solent University who I’m going to be working with on looking at a new venture on growing vegetables. It’s one of those things that may become something or it might not go anywhere, but I’m really excited about it. I’ll talk about it a little more in due course but I don’t yet know where this is going to go.
I also had a very positive call on another proposal that I need to do some work on, but there’s going to be a meeting first. It sounds exciting and could really go somewhere.
Currently Reading
I’ve not really been reading much in the last couple of weeks – I always read in bed at night, but frequently fall asleep over my book (not because the book’s boring, but because I’m super-tired) – so things aren’t changing much below
The Fireman by Joe Hill [GoodReads]
An Astronauts Guide To Life On Earth by Chris Hadfield [GoodReads] – really enjoying this (he’s this guy, in case you’ve forgotten).
A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk’s True Life (Journals Vol. 3) by Thomas Merton [GoodReads]
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King [GoodReads]. The next book in the Dark Tower series, a book I’m reading for an online group.
Blog Survey
Another quick plug for the blog survey…
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What You Might Want To Do With Your Phone When Entering the US now – or how it’s closer to entering Russia or China than it was before! [LINK]. I can’t say I’ll have much call for going to the USA anytime soon, but you never know and after reading how this NASA scientist was stopped when returning to America [LINK], I might take it quite seriously if I do.
Neil Gaiman – a short piece in the New York Times on his talk about his latest book on Norse Mythology (fiction) [LINK] I’m hoping that I’ll get a copy of his new book for my birthday next month.
He’s also announced his next book, which will be a sequel to “Neverwhere” [LINK]
The Week In Wildlife – In Pictures – Love the buffalo picture
How Emergencies Like The Orville Dam Will Be More Frequent – Climate change means we can expect more similar problems [LINK] and a little bit on what this means for Donald Trump’s infrastructure strategy [LINK]
Electronic Scrapbook 