This is an archive of the front page pictures, photograph albums and other links to photographs, most of which are nothing whatsoever to do with the topics of this blog.
More photos on my UCL site.
Jump to pictures (mostly used to be on the front page)
Some photo albums
By train to Lincoln Weihnachtsmarkt. 2011 |
Steam train to Weymouth 2010 | Switzerland 2009 |
Boston 2009 | Amsterdam 2008 | Andrew’s birth | Balloon trip | Yorkshire 2008 | Shetlands 2008 | USA trip 2008 ! Montreal and Yale 2008 |
Trip to the Lincoln Weihnachtsmarkt, December 2011.
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The Lindum market was started after seeing the Weihnachtsmarkt in its twin town, Neustadt an der WeinStrasse. Lindum was the Romans’ name for Lincoln. It is now the biggest in Europe and, as the pictures show, far too many people there. Lincoln is a beautiful city, which I have never visited before. Click picture for album. |
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Steam train trip to Dorset coast, August 2010
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Took a steam train outing to the Dorset coast. This was my first experiment with geotagging (new Panasonic TZ10 camera has a GPS) so the pictures are in Picasa, not my usual web album. The first few locations had to be set by hand because the GPS is slow to update position. |
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Switzerland: Montreux and Lausanne 2009
Pictures of a trip to Switzerland in October 2009. I was invited to examine a PhD thesis, and give a talk about single channel results, at Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Polymers and Membranes, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne.
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We decided to turn it into a (rather expensive) holiday and went first to Mantreux where we visited Rochers de Naye (spectacular views), Gruyere (the best cheese ever) and Les Avants sur Montreux (where I proposed to Margaret) and where she had worked at Chatelard school before we met. Then to Lausanne, a boat trip to Yvoire (in France) and on the way home, lunch (at phenomenal expanse) in the spectacular Train Bleu restauarnt on Gare de Lyons. |
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Amsterdam 2008
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Pictures of a trip to Amsterdam to speak at the oldest anti-quackery society, Vereniging tegen de Kwaksalverij. Highlight was the award of the Meester Kackadorisprijs, which is awarded to individuals or institutions who promote quackery and who should know better (the quacks themselves are never nominated). The short list for the 2008 prize included the vice chancellor of the Free University of Amsterdam. Click picture for album. |
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McGill, Yale, Columbia and Stony Brook. May 2008
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Diary of the trip is here. McGill Pharmacology research day, and the only time I’ve been invited to talk in a department of Religious Studies. Then on to Yale on small Beechcraft and Stony Brook. Click picture for the album. |
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USA 2008
| Some pictures from a trip to Americe, 11th January to 6th February. Gordon Conference in Ventura, CA, then Chicago and Buffalo. To Toronto for Center for Inquiry talk, and Oregon (OHSU) to give Riker lecture. Then to Long Beach CA for Biophysical Society Meeting. Click picture for album. |
 Canadian National Post photo |
Boston March 2009
Some pictures from the February 2009 Biophysical Society Meeting in Boston. Snow, and our symposium.
The saga of Andrew’s birth, 1984 – 1985
Click picture for album. These pictures were assembled in connection with the post about UCLH.
Trip in a hot air ballone, July 2008.
Trip ot the Yorkshire Dales, July 2008. Ingleton Falls, Goredale Scar and Sparrows at Malham. Click picture for album.
Trip to the Shetland Islands, June 2008
. Puffins, Sumburgh Head, Shetland, 7 June 2008
Trip to Trinity College Dublin for Debate on creationism. at the TCD Philosophical Society, one of the oldest debating societies in the world.
James Joyce, TCD quadrangle and Molly Malone. Click to view
Pictures
Poppy opening, 25 May 2009
Bluebell wood, 4 May 2009
Steve Bell’s cartoon in the Guardian, 25 March 2009. I think it is one of his best.
It is based on a 1915 cartoon by Savile Lumley, which was a recruiting poster for the first world war. But I suspect that Steve Bell was referring to the account by some IDF soldiers, or these T-shirts.
A shameful era for the USA and the UK is at an end
Remember four years ago?
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And here is the guess made by the London free newspaper, Metro, about the note left by Bush for Obama in the Oval office desk.
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. Goldfinches, Oxshott, 25 May 2008
. Chestnut and Roman hypocaust, Verulamium, St Albans, 18 May 2008
. Japanese Dogwood tree, New Haven (CT) green, 11 May 2008
. Montreal, old town, 10 May 2008
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. Carpet of bluebells, and birch catkins, 4 May 2008
. Rosemary blossom and pansy in garden 27 April 2008
Beech buds emerge 20 April 2008
. Magnolia 5 April 2008
. Magnolia and chestnut in snow 6 April 2008
2 responses so far ↓
1 robbo // Jul 29, 2008 at 17:00
David
A very nice set of crop circles in frame 07.26 of the Balloon Flight.
Must be them aliens that come down and impart “yin” energy and such like to the practitioners of CAM.
Or it’s the mark of a tractor spraying the field with nasty “inorganic” substances that ensures that the crop does not get infected with a “nice organic fungus” that is full of psychoactive compounds that cause delusions in humans.
2 RobertD // Jan 5, 2010 at 12:27
May we know where the bluebell wood is? The Oxford University Harcourt Arboretum has similar areas.
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