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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of the poems. Email: geoverse@hotmail.co.ukThanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Category Archives: GeoVerse
Tragedies of Aberfan
The tip slide was one; the failure to heed the knowledge of the past sufficiently was another. Continue reading
Plumber’s mait
Sticky stuff for when you’re stuck. Continue reading
Dippy
Displaced and disgruntled . . . Continue reading
Opening the envelope
For 800,000 years, the Earth has kept variations in its atmosphere in an ‘envelope’ – until fairly recently . . . Continue reading
On being a circle
Perfectly boring! Continue reading
Forgetting
A cure, but do it immediately . . . Continue reading
Time marches on
Happy 2015! Continue reading
Sprat’s eyes
What visual systems have in common with Mr & Mrs Sprat Continue reading
Disappearing
. . . from cars and humans Continue reading
Universal expansion
It affects more than galaxies . . . Continue reading
’Cos it is!
A useful tip for grandparents. Continue reading
Serial sectioning
Fabulous technique; just one tiny drawback . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Dibasterium, Enalikter, Kulidroplax, Lagerstätte, Virtual palaontology
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Walk this way
But where to? Continue reading
Just so
It’s the new Well . . . Continue reading
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
English place names can be very informative Continue reading
Mr Allen’s key
Just a bent, hexagonal-section bar, but training in its use can’t start too early Continue reading
A riddle
That’s just what this thing is . . . Continue reading
Rosetta
A long way to go to see an icy lump Continue reading
A chicken’s dream
Can its dream come true? Continue reading
Summer pudding
A seasonal offer Continue reading
Witch way
Well, this will be my story when my case comes up in court . . . There is a road in Somerset Of which you should beware. It’s like a wicked witch, who lures Car drivers to her lair. It … Continue reading
A principal principle
AAH is a local independent monthly free magazine. It is produced by a two-man editorial-photographic team to a seriously high standard. Lapses are very rare, but this one caught my eye and wouldn’t let it go until I’d written to … Continue reading
Animals Please Close The Gate
That’s what a sign said, on a gate in Wyle, Somerset. It was clearly intended for the local livestock, who presumably are able to read English. A nearby Animal explained its subversive subtext: “Animals please close the gate – Quickly, … Continue reading
Aubergenius
The beautiful basis of moussaka and ratatouille. Continue reading
Babysitterage
A challenge to the English language Continue reading
Eggspropriated
The case of the vanishing egg Continue reading
The mathematicians’ friend
It all works out ok at the end. Usually . . . Continue reading
Ragabo Man
The “raaaaaaaaag-abo” call of the rag-and-bone man still echoes round the remoter cells of my brain. I hardly ever saw him, because people in our road liked to keep their ragabos safely indoors. Ragabo Man has gone extinct, He’s vanished … Continue reading
Going to the Moon
Well, you can dream . . . Continue reading
Insects, anyone?
Maybe not just yet . . . Continue reading
Old Spiky
A fragmentary Sussex dinosaur Continue reading
Space racer
How fast are you moving? Continue reading
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Tagged Cosmic Background Radiatione, Earth, Solar system, Space, Universe
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Living in the past
Reality, filtered . . . Continue reading
Nothing
There’s much ado about it . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Mystery, Nothing, Science, Shakespeare (William), Wilde (Oscar)
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Lancing Clump
On the skyline of my youth Continue reading
RHKCPs
The Natural History Museum’s greatest treasures? Continue reading
Begin at the beginning . . .
Royal advice Continue reading
The Society of Radiator Geeks
A guide showing us round a museum remarked that an earlier visitor had become excited over one of the building’s radiators – apparently, it was a rare example of its type. He’d told the guide he was a member of … Continue reading
Something in the air
. . . but it’s invisible! Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Bacteria, Cosmic rays, Dust, Fog, Hay fever, Ions, Particulates, Pollen, Prions, Smog, UV light, Viruses
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London underground
A geologist’s picnic Continue reading
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Tagged Faults (geological), Geologists, Geology, London Clay, Venus
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Life is like a ladder
The rungs seem to get closer together . . . Continue reading
Of course, I never do it
Roads in Britain have a speed limit of 70 miles per hour, though you’d never think it applied on motorways. I’m cruising down the motorway, at spot-on seventy, So why is all the other traffic overtaking me? Where are the … Continue reading
Unnecessary ologies
In a book* about research in teaching there’s a sentence which made the eyes of a certain teacher glaze over: “Ontological assumptions will give rise to epistemological assumptions, which have methodological implications for the choice of particular data-collection techniques”. We … Continue reading
Ageless
Why didn’t I think of it before? Continue reading
Oh! Mister Porter
A dastardly deed at Crewe . . . Continue reading
Noddle models
Brains evolved (and survived) by making mental models, not by understanding reality – whatever that is. Continue reading
I will change it
Stuck with two? Here’s what to do . . . Continue reading
Santa-tracking
They seek him here, they seek him there . . . Continue reading
Jon Richfield
Clever chap, apparently . . . Continue reading
Santa’s proof
What, no ID? Continue reading
Piles
A 240-million-year-old message . . . Continue reading
Misty
How much would you pay for a set of 150-million-year-old bones? Continue reading
Double-bass gymnastics
Did Beethoven have a score to settle with double-bass players? Continue reading
Jimmy Smuggles
An inventive Sussex treacle miner Continue reading
D’Arcy’s secret
Special evolution? Continue reading
René’s fly
It gave him a buzz . . . Continue reading
Harald Sverdrup and the MOC
A global warning Continue reading
A dog’s tale
Tables turned! Continue reading
Joseph
A name from the 18th century branches of the family tree. He’s here! He’s arrived! A brother for Jess, A grandson for Gordon and Mo. His name’s really Joseph, But it won’t be too long Before we’ll be calling him … Continue reading
When continents collide
At the Open University, Dr. Clare Warren researches what happens to rocks when continents collide. Keep a lookout for Clare, Dice with her if you dare! Continental collision’s her scene: What is burial’s relation To rude exhumation? (Of rocks metamorphic, … Continue reading
An orbital track
Brighter than a comet, faster than a star . . . Continue reading
Cats eyes removed
Cats of Dorset, beware! Continue reading
Existentially baffled
Unwittingly served up by a waitress Continue reading
Clerk of the Weather
Must be getting on a bit now – is he losing his touch? Continue reading
Mineral donors
Sparkling generosity! Continue reading
A Round Tuit
It’s all I need – or is it? Continue reading
Triasacarus fedelei
An amber-preserved oldie Continue reading
Here
A special place Continue reading
Font
Where you can’t see the wood for the boulders. Continue reading
Funny
Three ways of being “funny” . . . Continue reading
Persistence of identity
Thanks, evolution! Continue reading
A Central Igneous Complex
You don’t have to be perfect to be interesting! Continue reading
Science
Is that what’s in the Science Museum? Continue reading
Roger de Boxgrove
A Middle Paleolithic view of Sussex life Continue reading
Geoarchaeology
The benefits of combining ’ologies. Continue reading
Twittering
Tweets and Twits . . . Continue reading
Ache’s and pain’s?
Yes, from this advert! Continue reading
Let cuttlefishes be!
Not a lot of people know this . . . Continue reading
Possessives
It’s not always quite as straightforward as adding an apostrophe–s, as I found when I consulted the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors and Hart’s Rules. The possessive of words, I confess Is often a cause of great stress. The … Continue reading
Fallen headlines
There’s a Society for them . . . Continue reading
A Government warning
Take this one with a pinch of rock salt Continue reading
Asteroid 21012 DA14
Fingers crossed . . . Continue reading
Fingers crossed
Brrrrr! Continue reading
Function denial 2
A barrier with attitude? Continue reading
The poinsettias’ plight
Pity the poor poinsettias Continue reading
Some like it hot
Rimicaris hybisae – an impressive name for an intriguing shrimp! Continue reading
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Tagged Hydrothermal vents, Oceanography, Rimicaris hybisae, Symbiosis
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The Hoff crab
A hairy nickname Continue reading
Advertising works!
Didn’t sell much, though… Continue reading
Keep calm and carry on
Don’t panic! Continue reading
Daisy Bell
Wasted wooing? Continue reading
Gordon’s garden – the latest
I like to keep it guessing… Continue reading
A Jurassic Coastal Lady
Mary Anning, recognised Continue reading
Calendar days
An unavoidable cycle Continue reading
MSW and the Bluebell Railway
More than leaves on the line . . . Continue reading
Silenced!
I hope what I lost will turn up soon… Continue reading