Interstellar

The other day I go the opportunity to watch a film I've had my eye on for ages - Interstellar. In short it's about an Earth that is dying and the efforts of one man and his crew to find a suitable planet for the human race to live on. The human race is not …

2015 in review

Like many other bloggers, I got a nice email yesterday with a breakdown of my blog activity over the year etc... There's more good stuff to come so keep reading and I hope that great things are going to come 🙂 The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's …

2015 in review

Like many other bloggers, I got a nice email yesterday with a breakdown of my blog activity over the year etc... While this is a great summary and covers some of the great people I've had the pleasure to chat with there are so many more nor mentioned. I've found so many friends, geeky and …

Pictures of Darkness

Darkness falls on the land. A shrouded moon glows behind racing clouds, wind blowing it's winter tune. Bare trees backlit by the weak moon, branches like old dry bones. Simon ☺

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas eveyone! Peace and love to all! Simon 🙂

Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby

Following on from my post the other day https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/cassinis-close-encouter-with-enceladus/ I hought something on the flyby would be need to to complete this story. The feature image I used shows a world covered in cracks in it's icy surface  and craters poc marking the surface. This world has surprised many with it geological activity and no …

Over the Festive Period

This is just a note to all my bloggie friends that from today over the next week or so I'm not likely to be contactable. So have a great Christmas, thank you all so much for making this year, the best blog year ever and I know that you will make it even better next …

Newborn Stars Shooting Lightsabers

Being really excited about all things space I'm naturally excited about newborn stars that shoot jets of light into space like lighsabres... http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-sees-the-force-awakening-in-a-newborn-star Simon 🙂

The Dirty T-Shirt

So it happened. Always does at some point during the winter, beacuse it's dark in the morning and you have little clue about what you put on. I got to work thinking I was relatively presentable. Until I looked down... My T-Shirt looked like I had eaten last nights dinner off of it. What does …

Epic Awesomness Award

Out of the blue my friend from books and hot tea nominated me for the  Epic Awesomness Award and I have to say I was touched. As my fellow bloggies know I love getting an award and so to get the Epic Awesomnness Award was kind of awesome. Thank you for nominating me - I …

The Jedi Duel #Blogbattle #Scifi

Here's the latest blog battle for you - I hope you enjoy it. It's very much been inspired by the film - although there are no spoilers in this as it's just inspired by the film. Simon 🙂

The Jedi Duel #Blogbattle #Scifi

Once again is's blog battle time - Rachel Ritchey's duel between the blogs of 1000 word stories. This weeks word is flake and there are the rules: 1000 words max fictional tale (or true if you really want) PG (no more than PG-13) Content – let’s keep this family friendly! Your story must contain the word(s) …