Approaching slowly in silent anticipation, there it was waiting for me in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice – Vincenzo Coronelli’s Terrestrial Globe undergoing conservation in the careful hands of a small team from Venice in Peril – and after introducing myself as a member I was let inside the cordoned off working area by
Don’t expect any deep tech talk from me to explain the details behind what was called the Y2K problem in the late 1990’s. For that, click here Year 2000 problem on Wikipedia for a somewhat better response than I could give. By the way Wikipedia launched after the swirl of Y2K in January 2001. In
Writing this piece, in a quirky way reminded me of some lyrics from a Beatles song – …I was alone, I took a rideI didn’t know what I would find thereAnother road where maybe ICould see another kind of mind there… Somehow unexplainably, one day early in the extended time warped days of the pandemic
“In the choirs of many of the abbeys and cathedrals of Europe is a secret topsy-turvy world where the everyday meets the miraculous and the sacred rubs cheeks with the profane.” Mike Harding – A Little Book of Misericords, 1998 Of the many splendours I have seen on my several cathedral visits in England, I’ve
For a time, fifty five years ago, on a small stretch in a ten minute world along Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, my head gravitated to the music of jazz and blues. There began what would become four years of bliss. Apart from the fact my first fun full time job was on the west
Naturally you would expect to hear from people like Samuel Pepys and his friend John Evelyn in the 17th century, but then there are others from Virginia Wolfe to Michael Palin in the 20th century. One of the charms of this sumptuous volume is that the sets of entries in each of the 365 days