I set up this site in February 2005, when we bought this house in Ribaute. I had intended to record our life in in Languedoc for friends and family.

However, if you have stumbled on this site, treat it with care:  Explore the dusty rooms and passages by all means. …

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20/08/2023…

Dissertation:  There was No “Big Bang”                 Click to enlarge

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 my choice

Not in any particular order:

Various Constellation / Night Sky Atlases  (Epoch 2000.0)

eg ISBN 0 600 35113 0

** The Story of Astronomy      Peter Aughton                ISBN 978 0 85738 598 7

Collider                                 Paul Halpern                        ISBN 978 0 470 28620 3

The Sleepwalkers                 Arthur Koestler                   ISBN 978 0 141 39453 4

The Subatomic Zoo             Cindy Schwarz                          ISBN 0 88318 954 2

Observer’s Handbook          Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

Annual (2022)                                                                     ISBN 978 1 927879 25 2

The Cosmic Web                 J Richard Gott                        ISBN 978 0 691 15726 9

Finding our place in the Universe    Hélène Courtois        ISBN 978 0 262 039956

Ripples in Spacetime           Govert Schilling                   ISBN 978 0 674 97166 0

The Cosmic Landscape       Leonard Susskind                ISBN 978 0 316 01333 8

On Gravity                            A Zee                                       ISBN 978 0 691 17438 9

Critical Mass                        Philip Ball                               ISBN 978 0 099 45786 2

Reality is not what it seems    Carlo Rovelli                    ISBN 978 0 141 98321 9

CERN: the large Hadron Collider/ Don Lincoln              ISBN 978 0 8018 9144 1

The Quantum Labyrinth        Paul Halpern                    ISBN 978 0 465 09758 6

Curiosity  (Mars rover)           Emily Lakdawalla            ISBN 78 3 319 68144 7

Into the Black                           Rowland White                ISBN 978 0 552 160 223

and finally a fair collection of Science Fiction paperbacks…

 the following Minutes are from notes and memory, apologies if these are not the meetings you remember.  M.

General meeting Friday 9th October 2020, held at LE RANC

We were 8 in number, at the first general meeting held at LE RANC, Those present: Michael Cowell, Chris and Carole Fogg.…

Minutes of Meeting 11th March 2022 at Saint-Seb

We had 7 attendees: Aline, David Miles, Carole and Chris Fogg, Steve Hills and Monica and Martin,   

Proposed program:  1 Voyager probes Mission Status (Carole)

2. Ephemeris: do you like the current form of “fridge notes” ie.…