Tom Roper

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:19:03 +0100

Currently reading: Information: A Historical Companion by 📚 A mighty tome, on interlibrary loan. I hope I can finish it

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:00:07 +0100

Currently reading: Thebes by Paul Cartledge 📚 Only in the early chapters so far. Very detailed, but fascinating, but perhaps better read at times other than bedtime. Makes me want to sites such as Thebes, Mycenae and Sparta

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 18:42:17 +0100

Currently reading: Socrates in Love by Armand D’Angour 📚 D’Angour is a very interesting chap, and a man of parts, as may be seen on his website. I haven’t finished this yet, but it makes me want to add Plato to the ever-lengthening list of authors I’ll read in Greek just as soon as my Greek is up to it.

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:46:34 +0100

Want to read: Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts 📚 I heard the author speak at an online seminar recently. I had no idea that Stalin’s considerable collection wound up more or less intact at Yale University in the US. I’ll be interested to see if anyone’s done some bibliometric analysis of it.

Shingle

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:32:29 +0100

Spent a happy morning shovelling shingle with a fine band of people. See before and after. We’re back on Friday if anyone wants to help. It looks unlikely that we will manage to clear the (Seaford Beach parkrun)[https://www.parkrun.org.uk/seafordbeach/] route completely in time for Saturday, but for the following week, perhaps.

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:17:09 +0100

If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said, That they could get it clear?’ I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear

Seafront and Bishopstone

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:28:00 +0100

Currently reading: The Life and Loves of Edith Nesbit by Eleanor Fitzsimons📚I borrowed this from the library, inspired by the Backlisted Christmas special podcast on the Railway Children. It’s fascinating, and both George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells make appearances. Sadly, though E Nesbit lived for a while not far from here, in Crowlink House, there is little mention of it. It must be said that some of the verse quoted, both her own and that of her friends and admirers, is dire.

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 21:52:24 +0100

I wonder if this service could revive my blogging habit. I started in 2003, but it has been somewhat in abeyance lately