Classification Since I was at school I have been fascinated by the classification of animals and plants, but it was not until 2003 that I produced a comprehensive table showing all the groups that are familiar to me. It can’t… Continue Reading →

Since December 2018 I have been a member of the Alfred Wainwright Facebook Group, which is run by Chris Butterfield. He is considerably younger than me, and he has kindly agreed to take over my website when I am no… Continue Reading →

On 11th June, 2020 34 pages of letters that I received and sent between 1972 and 1979 in connection with the panoramas were added to the section ‘scrapbooks’ in my website. Here are the details: Pages 1 to 6 –… Continue Reading →

More history: In my last blog I mentioned some interesting facts that I had read on the subject of history over the years and added that I could have mentioned more. Here are some of them. The person who is… Continue Reading →

History: It seems to me that books on history place too much emphasis on the wrong sort of people. One of these is Horatio Nelson, whose only claim to fame is to have given his name to a column in… Continue Reading →

Here are some more interesting facts that I have come across over the years. Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon. ‘Here come dots’ is an anagram of ‘The Morse Code’. The pound is so called because it was the… Continue Reading →

From the Radio Times, 5th-11th December, 1981: Artist Gordon Beningfield cycles down the lanes of West Dorset on his old Post Office bike in Friday’s ‘In the Country’. Brian Jackman, Gordon’s guide when he visits the area, tells what’s in… Continue Reading →

The Snowdon panorama I recently acquired an iPhone so that I can consult the internet when I am away from my computer. I typed in ‘jesty snowdon’, and within three minutes I found the Snowdon panorama. I could enlarge the… Continue Reading →

On 9th October 2019 I uploaded some interesting facts about the English language that I had read about. Here are some interesting facts about mathematics that I have read about. A vast number of people have been working on mathematics… Continue Reading →