Welcome to the page where, absent me knowing where else to publish a particular blog, you will find my musings about random things. Lot’s of natural phenomenon and other weird stuff out here. Enjoy!

“I’m Going to Thread the Needle”

• A harrowing Mother’s Day in tornado alley.

To the Bat Cave

• Move over Batman and Robin. There’s a real bat cave one can visit.

The Rules of Easter

• Full Moon. Vernal Equinox. Gregorian Calendar. Julian Calendar. It’s all so confusing!

Hedonic Escalation

• It’s the perfect combination and when you eat it you always want more.

Jigsaw Puzzles!

• One of the best ways to wile away a winter’s day.

Winter Solstice –

• The darkest days in the northern Hemisphere occur on December 21st and 22nd annually.

How Do YOU celebrate? –

• The most popular days for People to be born… have to do with Christmas

Paricutin Pyroclastics –

• An amazing story of a volcano which grew to over 1300 feet in two short years.

Tsunami! – 

• Watching these videos still strikes fear in my heart.

Invasion of the Terranauts –

• An experiment in living in a closed system

Total Eclipse of the Sun

• A very cool event (August 22)

It’s your Lucky Penny Day!

• The humble coin was first minted in 1793

What The Heck Is Beltane?

• A celebration of spring cleaning

A device I can’t live without

• One of the top inventions ever… the magic table!

National Cleaning Week

• Everyone should have a lazy housekeeper! (March 24)

The ever so Geeky Palm Pilot

• Versus the good old fashioned paper calendar! (March 10)

A planet or a moon?

• Poor Pluto… hit back and forth like a ping pong ball (February 18)

Back To School

• An annual event which invokes terror in millions of children