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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
Testing . . .
So far, so . . .er, what’s the word . . . oh yes, good Continue reading
SMILE!
How Surrey might keep an eye on things – from space Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, SMILE mission, Space, Telescope, UV light, X-rays
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Gastronomic destruction
Some works of art are intended for demolition! Continue reading
Horshamosaurus
How would you like it if your name got changed every few years? Continue reading
Earworms
They worm their way in, but how can you get them out? Continue reading
The dam that Jack built
You can’t outwit geology . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Dams, Fissures, Floods, Hydraulic piping, Loess, Natural disasters, Rhyolite
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Wot, no cuckoo?
Should I feel glad or sad? Continue reading
Helpful Helena
Behind every great man is an empty quill . . . Continue reading
The nocturnal fox
We know when he’s been . . . Continue reading
Underactive
Must work harder . . . Continue reading
Musing
She’ll come back. Won’t she? Continue reading
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Tagged Ayres (Pam), Fletcher (Cyril), Muirden (James), Orpheus Centre, Stilgoe (Richard), Writing poems
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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