Compare and contrast…
How many essays have I written which had this premise as a title? Goodness knows!!! Compare and contrast: The Merseys …and: David Bowie
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Wavefront direction change
Apparently, reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated… I didn’t know that, and I’m not sure I understand it now that I do know it!! Maybe if I hadn’t given up science in the […]
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A lovely thing!
What a strange green pointy thing… Things are so often labelled and tagged, but wandering round parks and gardens too frequently there is no way of identifying the lovely thing you are looking at!
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Mondrian does the washing up
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was born in 1872 in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. He started his working life teaching in a primary school although all the while he was painting and drawing. he became famous for his very recognizable style which is imitated and to be found in the most unlikely places… […]
MoreSomething about hydrangeas
Gurt lush is a Bristolian expression, and I think it sums up the beauty of hydrangeas completely. I’d often seen the shrubs with their enormous flower heads but didn’t really know what they were called until a German friend told me they were Hortensies… now I always have to struggle to remember they are hydrangeas in […]
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