by designer | Apr 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
You won’t need me to tell you that the roads have taken a bit of a battering from the wintry weather. Layers of tarmac stripped off, potholes everywhere and drains bursting with meltwater. All that from just a week of snow, ice and freezing winds. Now just imagine...
by designer | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
Everyone knows there are just two kinds of weather in Yorkshire; it’s either ‘a grand day’ or, more likely, ‘a rum day’. The British love to talk about the weather because we’re all in it together, but if you live out in the countryside you’re often in it more than...
by designer | Feb 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
You will all remember from Gulliver’s Travels the rival tribes of Big-Enders and Little-Enders, fiercely divided by the way in which they opened their boiled eggs. In the fossil world we have the equivalent groups, known to us as ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’. In this...
by designer | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
For those of us who live here the Yorkshire coast is, of course, the centre of the universe. But we are slightly removed from the country’s main arteries of trade and commerce. To me that’s a plus. I look on the coast, the North York Moors, the Vale of Pickering and...
by designer | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorised
To Bridlington this month to give a talk to the venerable society of Augustinians. It always pays to do your research before you get up to address an audience, so I spent some time looking up the geology of Brid, in particular the effects of ice. Around 3 million...
