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Nick is:
Satisfied by the long dark lenght of January


Spring At Last
Hardly news but spring has been late this year. Today, as I write this, however, I am finally siting outside at just gone nine on a Sunday morning. Sure my hands are a tad chilly due to the cripsness of the preceeding night (it was clear and the stars fabulous), but the sun is shining and their rays warm on my skin. Snowdrops still adorn the garden as do some delicate white crocusses. The daffodills are out in the front, but that's only due to it being south facing and next to the house.

Has this late spring been the reason for my lack of posting here? Don't think so, though it's been a tough month and a half (WHEN WILL THE BRITTISH WEATHER BE STABLE?). It's probably due to lazyness and some consecutive busy weekends vitising various places and such like. Thinking back to last year and though lent I tried to blog updates frequently. It was good to document life (which is my primary reason for writing anyway), but didn't quite translate into the regular posting I'd hoped for. I guess as one gets older there is less time to do such things. Evenings are recovery from work time, and otherwise it's housework or socalising. And on that note I'm pleased to say that we are making some very good friends in Cam and feel greatly blessed by them.

OK, that's it for now. I'd like to stay and chat but my fingers are pretty chilly and I need to put them to work doing something round my garden here before Church. Plus this post hasn't exactly been the most inspiring tone ever so I'll wait for a little more inspiration. Perhaps I'll get round to upping some photos later, that would be nice - you can all see my office compost worms. Till then safe travels.
[07-04-2013]

Last Night My Wife Virtually Died
It was weird, really really weird. One minute I was married to Suyeon, the next I was just 'Married'. To be fair, Facebook has been trying to virtually devoice me from my wife for ages - I never see any of her updates or posts despite being my one and only 'special close friend. Whenever I looked at her profile I saw nothing. It was all a bit odd. But the change yesterday was that she had taken the brave decision to leave Facebook for good.

More favourably I might have been notified of this. Either by Fb or, perhaps more reasonably, herself. But after dinner Su casually remarked that she'd requested her account be deleted (subject to 15 days in which she can change her mind - creepily reminiscence of that Dignitas period between taking a dose of lethal poison and death, only with the option to undo*.)

* Or, less creepily, the moments between switching off your power-shower/TV and the point at which it actually stops.
[25-03-2013]

Incredible Dining
For breakfast: Daily Bread crunchy musely with yoghurt and nutty crunch made by Su. For dinner: celeriac and apple soup with toasted hazelnuts and yoghurt, hand made rye & rosmary foccacia bread with roasted organic butternut squash. Marvelous.
[30-01-2013]

Scotland by Train

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This Time Last Year
On of the series of shots I took of Chesterton Tower. I am yet to make this into a little animation, but hopefully that will come one day soon.

Chesterton Tower - Photo credit: Nick Bailey

[11-04-2013]

Bubbles.
Or in my case, water droplets. This evening I was enthralled by Dr Helen Czerski's BBC 4 documentary POP! The Science of Bubbles. For one thing I recognised one of the labs as being from my old Southampton haunt - Tizard, Building 13. But mostly because the program was simply excellent. People go on and on about Brian Cox and how he's going to be the future face of popular science broadcasting on the BBC. But have they seen his latest series? It was devoid of content, boring and pointless. This documentary, however, was entirely the opposite. I have to say I was only just tempted to watch by the lack of anything else on; I never really thought I had an interest in bubbles. In fact I barely though about them other than the frequently demonstrated 'square bubble' experiment. But that was exactly the point, people don't think about them, yet they are everywhere and they are fascinating. And this whole program was chocked full of interest, science, experiments and inspiration. The sort of thing where you go away feeling like you've now got to look at the world in a new light. Bubbles are everywhere and we should all give them much more credit than they presently get.

In my twitter correspondence with Helen I remarked on how the program reminded me of a 70's Open University documentary. I don't know if this was deliberate, but I really liked it. For one thing those old programs were simply excellent. Dated, yes, but they always presented complex things and didn't underestimate the viewer. This bubbles program did exactly that, it presented complex ideas in a graspable way without dumbing down the content. Yet at the same time she unpacked the complexity in what is seemingly simple. I think that is a real skill. Listening to the program again on the iPlayer I'm noting the background etherial music which I think adds somewhat to the "Look Around You" feel.

It also got me thinking about some old photos of mine from way back in 2005 when I was quite interested in water droplets, in part a link to my PhD - asteroid impacts into the oceans causing super big splashes. Now droplets are not bubbles, but as Helen presented in the documentary they are relayed. It all comes down to surface tension. So here are some of my choice droplet photos. Enjoy.

Water Droplets - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
droplets on glasses

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closeup of those droplets

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a dyed droplet splash

 - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
water beeding on a mini

 - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
total internal reflection of a wine glass

 - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
explosive droplets hitting my Bluebird

 - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
droplets on a petal (I think I created them artificially)

 - Photo credit: Nick Bailey
droplets on a blade of grass

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grass droplets from another angle

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splash over cherry plum harvest from 2011
[10-04-2013]

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