A Blog With No Name

Artist, photographer and blogger, with ME and an ability to make two dots and a line express almost anything.

Birmingham-based artist with a wicked sense of humour and some very nice pictures

Reflections on all three of those areas, by a clarinettist and music teacher

Why is Saturday called something very like "washday" in Norwegian when all the other days of the week are named after heavenly bodies and Norse gods? Here's my attempt at finding out. Continue reading →

Virtuoso balalaika playing by Aleksei Arkhipovsky. Continue reading →

Worpress emailed me an "annual report" for my blog containing various statistics and stuff, so I thought I'd share it. It may or may not be of interest but you won't know unless you look, will you? Continue reading →

Some thoughts about making connections when learning a new language, based on my current experience of learning Norwegian. Continue reading →

The Higgs Boson is not the Higgs Boatswain. Neither are breast implants made from a hard brittle metallic-looking material. Continue reading →

Sculptures inspired by science and mathematics. Beautiful, impossible, yet real.

timtfj: @GuyLongworth Capitals are required for proper nouns. "david cameron" is an improper noun though, so lower case is obligatory.

timtfj: @GuyLongworth I gave up trying to be polite abt #cameron a few months before the election. Please correct me if I ever give him a capital C.

timtfj: @GuyLongworth It was just a snippet on the news. He's using it about wreckforming the health service.

timtfj: @JohnPerivolaris It is. I'm used to getting maybe 2 or 3 a day, which is manageable.

timtfj: @JohnPerivolaris Meaning they're around for longer before getting suspended. That's just a guess though and might be completely wrong.