Nothing Tra La La?

Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...

Ten year-old Aniyah is a star hunter, an astronomer, thrilled by the discovery of a new star in the night sky. But she thinks the star is...

The Moon - A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour is a new book published by Royal Observatory Greenwich to accompany the Moon exhibiti...

I've an essay in  The Moon - A celebration of our celestial neighbour , a new book   edited by Melanie Vandenbrouck .  In July it wi...

Here's Dr Marek Kukula - my co-author on The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who - on Doctor Who: The Fan Show  answering questions about...

M'colleague Dr Marek Kukula and I have written a couple of blog posts to spread the word about The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who . H...

Unleashed on the world tomorrow is a new book I've written - Top Trumps: Space , published by Puffin . Follow the link for example pa...

Earlier this week, the Dr pointed me in the direction of Professor Joe Cain's splendid talk on the dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palac...

An afternoon in Greenwich seeing chums. Greenwich Park was busy with workmen and tractors dismantling the Olympic arena, which meant the pa...

It’s 20 years since I took my first GCSEs - four of them, a year early, what with going to posh school. Tomorrow morning, me and Nimbos and...

Space school today was on identifying constellations, and I've drawn spidery diagrams of such things as Boote, Canis Major and the the b...

"Your maths is correct, but your physics is abominable," said Albert Einstein (in French) of a 1927 paper by a Catholic priest. A...

Of no interest to anyone else I am sure, but yesterday I looked up at space through a telescope for the first time. My astronomy GCSE course...

Have spent most of the last week sheltering indoors, stuffing myself full of food and booze. J. and J. put on a splendid spread for Christma...

I remember when working bank holidays meant time and a half. Not any more. On Thursday and Friday I was ensconced in a recording studio watc...

Busy, busy, busy. Lots of different bits of work on and about to go on tour… Tomorrow morning I’m a guest at Faringdon Arts Festival , readi...

This afternoon I was in drizzly, grey Greenwich to discuss a potential project. I lived in Greenwich 2002-04 and got married in the Queen...

So where were we? Oh yes, I was blogging from our hotel in the Sydney Rocks, while the Dr was exploring the roof-top hot-tub. I went up to j...

We have been visited. First on Monday, J. arrived from Bath (and more usually the USA). She had not seen our flat before, nor our William Mo...