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Monthly Archives: November 2017
What I did on my holiday – Professor Brian Cox tour version
An audience of 24,000 spread over nine shows in eight cities in fifteen days, and now the Australian and New Zealand tour is done. We left London twenty days ago and return shortly after a couple of days in Hong … Continue reading
Long Live the Hyper Real Flesh and the old joke – Canberra to Adelaide
I have a fascination with old school comedians that has been interfering with my sleep patterns. Through a series of moves via Mick Miller and Johnny Casson, I find myself watching a 45 minute recording of Duncan Norvelle. Best known … Continue reading
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Let us Celebrate Leo McKern – a day in Canberra
I bumped my head on the beam of my own absurdity as I walked around Canberra’s great big lake. I risked a walk without hat or factor 50 unaware of the high, hot sun. You think I’d have been aware … Continue reading
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Crowd Surfing the Gravitational Waves is Forbidden… and a transformative exhibition
345am alarm. Relieved again that by being woken by an alarm that must necessarily mean I have been asleep. Brian has a lovely long lie in until 430am. Should his beauty sleep be too truncated, that can have ramifications for … Continue reading
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Beauty Spot Head Cavity – Day 10 (or 11 or 12 or 9) of The Brian Cox Tour
It doesn’t take long when a sea is between you and your family and you change hotel four to five times a week to feel that this has been your only life. Tour sleep peculiarities, airport check-ins, unpack, repack, “where’s … Continue reading
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Drained of Pudding in the Oxygen Tent – the tour goes on
Monday – Auckland Breakfast. Gym. Quick foray to Auckland Art Gallery. Look at Frederick Goodall’s The Finding of Moses. “Many Victorian secretly relished displays of , so long as they were legitimised within biblical and historical subjects.” “Eileen Agar refused … Continue reading
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the skin becoming conscious with the shock of sportswear enveloping it. Day 7 – Brisbane – Auckland
Today is the first day a stranger has ever said to me, “have a good workout”. Things must be changing. Hotel gyms were once mythic places, but the new regime of cosmology and weightlifting is in place now. Unfortunately, I … Continue reading
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Brisbane day two – tour day six – the pumpkins swell
Resorting to my penultimate Temazepam, I find a solid four hours sleep. It succeeds a broken two hours of Melatonin sleep that conjured up a foul dream of being parted from my son. Thank you, Mr Sandman. After our exercise … Continue reading
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Day 5 – Brisbane, Richter and Multi-storey car parks
Boiled egg and vegemite, airport lounge, muscle rediscovering workout, meal by a river, and failure to sleep, the tour has hit a rhythm now. We reach Brisbane city centre at 2.15. Brian goes to lift weights in a botanical garden … Continue reading
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The Jukebox of Gemini Spacecraft and on to Mars – Australian/NZ playlist and explanation
Some people have been asking about the playlist while the audience are taking their seats on the current Australian/New Zealand tour, so here you are. It was hastily gathered together from the songs I had on my laptop. I would … Continue reading
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