My father worked for the phone company all his life. Actually, that isn’t completely true. In 1943, during World War II, he joined the Marines, got married and managed not to get killed. After the war he returned to his job at the C&P Telephone Co., played around on boats in and around the Potomac […]
I just couldn’t let it go. Even after 27 years I still looked. Not continuously of course, but whenever I discovered a book that I’d had for a long time but not opened in a while I’d turn it upside down and riffle its pages to encourage anything jammed in there to fall out. Or […]
Returned to Jakarta this week. Lovely to be back in the warmth, but as always miss the fresh air of Christchurch. Coal and coalbed methane in Indonesia are about as fascinating geology as you can get anywhere in the world. Those who work in terrestrial sediments know its not for the faint hearted! Lots of […]