Geoff Nelder

'Cikai Korran came here and saw': Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

Wot! No one told me this!
Like a Who’s Who of Wanderers in the Valley of the Kings!

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Of course she's a delightful anagram of us all: Life.

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I did feel so much for File, no, Elif!
Nicely written.

Admiral Rais Dragut, hated by most, admired by many. He invaded in 1565 but during a storm was found on a beach in present day Malta! Arrested as an illegal! Will his cunning work an escape? Art by @_Bethdesigns
Universal Kindle link
mybook.to/DragDiv

Not good enough ;)

@madeehahwrites.bsky.social
I am enjoying reading your book, Madeehah, on Madeira ! How's that for wordplay artistry?

Thought creates reality in Chaos of Mokii. A literary short story where imagination builds cities and chaos reigns supreme.
mybook.to/Kaos

Scraping the barrel
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Miffed because this Santa Maria "fully working replica" has used motors instead of sails since I arrived on Madeira.

I am quite suspicious of the popularity of post-data multiverse analysis. If we can have all those specifications identified, why not run corresponding simulations ahead of data collection to pressure-test the experimental design & analytical procedures so we can perform the most informative study?

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Thought creates reality in Chaos of Mokii. A literary short story where imagination builds cities and chaos reigns supreme.
mybook.to/Kaos

A steam roller in Funchal, Madeira. It was made in Leeds in the days when Britain made stuff.

It's a steal
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And when I pulled a muscle in left upper arm weeks ago!

Monte gardens, Funchal, Madeira. Wonderful place on the slopes of a mountain. The Japanese gardens era 18th century.

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Photograph of a group of hen and chick succulents

Like rain drops on water, our succulents ripples out in concentric circles
#art #photography #succulents

Trying to read in bed.

Perfect cycling territory.

A yuk and yay it's a two
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Yay Green! The new red.

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Thought creates reality in Chaos of Mokii. A literary short story where imagination builds cities and chaos reigns supreme. mybook.to/Kaos #Experimental #SciFiReads #IndieBooks #ShortStory
Photo is where I wrote it.

Lem's Pirx the Pilot books are a hoot.

Replica of Columbus 's 1490s Santa Maria off Madeira. Amazing how fast it goes without sails unfurled. Christopher would be pleased.

Amazing how birds can land on barbed twigs with hardly a glance.

Gold coin depicting Flavius Theodoricus (Theodoric the Great) Roman Vassal and King of the Ostrogoths. The image shows a face with eyes very wide open, and a hairdo that looks like a large heap of spaghetti.

This medallion captures the precise moment Theodoric the Great looked in the mirror after his hairdresser had assured him "the new 'do makes you look very with-it, sire"