by EdisonRex | Aug 17, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera, Programs
It’s been a wet August so far for us here in North London. It’s been even wetter in the more northern parts of the UK. The extra cool that comes with these sorts of Atlantic storm systems seems to send a signal to our garden plants, and where they were...
by EdisonRex | Aug 3, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera, Programs
A month of rain in a couple of hours. That’s what low pressure does. Summers in England aren’t really any more rainy than summers in New England where I grew up, it’s the same sort of rain systems and rainy days and scattered thunderstorms are as...
by EdisonRex | Jul 20, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera
50 years ago, it was actually a Sunday and I watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take a giant leap for mankind. I was 9. It was an amazing moment that has never ever left me, even though the technical feat of landing a 1st stage (or two of them) is somewhat more...
by edisonrex | Jun 22, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera
Midsummer. Here we are. This is the point in the Northern Hemisphere when the days are long and nights are short. For a night owl like me that can actually be a problem. But conversely I’m not happy that the nights will now be getting longer. I fixed my M5N so...
by edisonrex | Jun 8, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera
Subject to weather changes, things are now growing. It was a dry and cold May and as a result things didn’t grow as fast as we’re used to seeing. But it’s begun now. We’re only a few weeks from the Summer Solstice! I’ve got some sort of...
by edisonrex | May 25, 2019 | Edison's Ephemera
What an absolutely glorious day today was. I worked outside for almost all of it. I got a lot of sun, it was hot work and kind of wet (washing off the winter muck) but I even celebrated with a barbeque. So it’ll be a show about being in almost summer. My usual...
