Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Monday, May 30, 2022

America's Best on Parade

Although I will still be posting things from my UK trip for a while I am obviously back in the States. Being gone a month is long enough th...

Friday, May 27, 2022

Cacaphony

Yesterday's post on the various iterations of the word CACO of course got me thinking. I mean, any word that has that as an element wo...

Thursday, May 26, 2022

An Insult for the Ages

It was my second to the last day of excavating at Vindolanda. The area I was working on was not very interesting so when a bit of excitemen...

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

UK Geocaches, some faves and observations

One of my minor Covid lockdown activities has been geocaching. Fun, a bit of hide and seek, and an excuse to do more walking. As I knew I...

Monday, May 23, 2022

Vindolanda 2022.....Jet Lag Musings

Back from a month of excavation at the Roman site of Vindolanda. I can't say I'm over jet lag....at my age it comes in waves but ro...

Friday, May 20, 2022

Vindolanda 2022 Day Twenty and Last - Moses

Yesterday we had to retreat from the deeper anaerobically preserved end of the site. It was just too wet. Of course when there are tantali...

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Vindolanda 2022 Day Nineteen

We started the day soldiering on in our anaerobic trench. Various posts and other wood emerged, but overnight rain had "recharged...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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