Showing posts with label science-fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science-fiction. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Skull Island

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 Oh the many things we enjoy as family (well, as father and son) on Netflix. You might remember that I blogged last year about an animated ...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2023

How to hunt an invisible man

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As you might remember from one of last month's posts , I have rediscovered H.G. Wells ' The Invisible Man , a classic of science-fic...
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Saturday, 8 July 2023

The village of Iping

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As you may remember from a recent post , I have been (re)reading H.G. Wells ' s The Invisible Man , which I had read more than 30 years ...
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Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Rediscovering The Invisible Man

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I read very little science fiction. It is simply not my literary genre. When I do, it mostly has a lot of horror elements in it. But I do en...
Sunday, 14 May 2023

Kong: King of the Apes

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Sometimes I try to convince Wolfie to watch something different, just so I can enjoy watching it with him. And sometimes we thus make happy ...
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Saturday, 13 May 2023

Pandemic (the board game)

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Our last trip to John Lewis was a few months ago. We rarely buy anything there, when we do it is generally small things. That said, I love ...
Friday, 17 February 2023

Casse-tête cosmique

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 Petit loup adore les puzzles. C'est un intérêt qu'il a depuis longtemps, mais depuis que j'en ai acheté un pour sa mère à Noël,...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Monster Plants (Monstrum)

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Monstrum has just released a video on Monster plants. As always, fascinating. Malevolent plants are a common trope of both horror and scienc...
Monday, 20 June 2022

Monstrum of Grays and UFOs

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For the amateur of modern folklore among you, Monstrum released a video recently about UFOs and Grey alien s, also called Grays. As always,...
Wednesday, 17 November 2021

How to Put a Duvet Cover On

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 Sometimes I find silly but very funny and very true things on the internet. Like this comics. I don't know if like me you struggle to p...
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Sunday, 16 May 2021

All About UFOs

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I blogged before about All About Monsters and very often about All About Ghosts . There is a third book in the old classic Usborne books se...
Wednesday, 1 July 2020

Gamma Ray

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Sometimes, it's not that I judge a beer by its bottle, its label or, in this instance, the image on its can, but I just want to drink ...
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Saturday, 18 April 2020

HAL 9000 and Google Assistant

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Because I had a few minutes to waste this evening, I asked a few question to Google Assistant on my phone, trying sometimes to make it (her?...
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Thursday, 9 April 2020

Fever

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No, no, don't worry, I don't have a fever and I am feeling fine (touch wood). I thought I would give some reading suggestion for t...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Retrouver les Cités d'Or

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Je suis en train de revivre un moment de nostalgie comme j'en vis parfois: depuis une semaine ou deux, je me suis mis à regarder à nou...
Saturday, 8 February 2020

"Playmospace"

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Once upon a time, my brothers and I had a few Playmobil sets. I was discussing this with my brother PJ recently and we mentioned that th...
Saturday, 10 August 2019

"Write what you know"

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You probably heard that one before: when you want to become a writer, write what you know. I never agreed with it, and I could write a long ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2019

À propos de la Planète des singes

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Photo prise à Totnes dans le Devon , afin d'illustrer mon propos. Il y avait une procession dans la ville avec plusieurs chars allégori...
Friday, 2 November 2018

Space Raiders

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Sometimes I do enjoy some bad stuff, whether it is food or counterculture. And this is why, stopping at the corner shop near work one day,...
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Monday, 25 June 2018

Arrakis, California

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My brother PJ now lives in California, where he's been for a few weeks now. He recently wrote this on Facebook, which I thought was so ...