#20: Meringue
‘Meringue, my lord?’ – Mel Giedroyc, The Great British Bake Off
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#18: Albert Bridge
‘The darker the night, the brighter the stars’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
#12: Strike!
‘It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.’ – Michael Faraday Today I am going on strike. I am manning a picket line. I am taking industrial action. I wrote before about why… Continue reading #12: Strike!
#10: Inside my umbrella
‘It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.’ – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
#7: Words of wisdom
‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.’ – Rudyard Kipling Among my most valuable possessions are my grandfather’s notebooks from medical school. Eight battered volumes filled with his spidery handwriting, carefully annotated diagrams and additional notes written between 1940 and 1942. I love how some of these notes are identical to… Continue reading #7: Words of wisdom
#5: Traffic light
‘The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.’ – Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
#4: Breakfast
‘”When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.’ – A.A. Milne