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The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
By Ben Seymour Date: 24th June 2020
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I ...
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Jupiter & Saturn
3am and I just woke up Em and the kids so we could see Jupiter and Saturn through the telescope for the first time toget...
By Ben Seymour Date: 15th June 2020
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Sombrero Galaxy, M12 & M14
Trying out some longer exposures tonight (60-90s on 3600ISO)
By Ben Seymour Date: 29th May 2020
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Vega, Moon and ISS
Glorious moon, Vega sparkle, and slightly blurry ISS.
By Ben Seymour Date: 28th May 2020
Enjoying a lovely fresh evening of nightsky gazing....
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Spica and Double Double
Spica and Double Double (I think)
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd May 2020
First time trying the DSLR with the telescope tonight, and I lost track of what I...
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Venus! (and the moon)
Experimenting with the stacking app (windows only!) to process the photos I took last night using a ZWO telescope camera...
By Ben Seymour Date: 4th May 2020
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Plossl 40mm, 17mm, 13mm
Just enough gaps in the clouds to try to get higher magnification of the moon with the plossl 17mm and 13mm (along with...
By Ben Seymour Date: 2nd May 2020
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Tents & Telescopes
More time enjoying the new moon tonight and clearer conditions and a little more practice, and we’re getting much close...
By Ben Seymour Date: 25th April 2020
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La Dolce Vita - Aceto Balsamico
There are things in life that we end of ‘saving for a special occasion’... maybe a really nice bottle of wine, or that i...
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th April 2020
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Fresh cress
Making the most of what we have:
By Ben Seymour Date: 4th April 2020
Home grown cress for a lovely egg and cress open sandwich ...
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Starry starry night
Perfect timing to have some really crisp clear nights, with almost no planes, and some really bright ISS flybys. Despite...
By Ben Seymour Date: 28th March 2020
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Toilet roll caricatures
For those with an abundance of toilet rolls.... and an abundance of time stuck in the house with the kids:
By Ben Seymour Date: 14th March 2020
Zoe s...
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Flat packed coffee
Trialling better coffee for when we get back to travelling for work again. Flat packed, pour in boiling water and it bec...
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th March 2020
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Six Nations
Thanks to some good fortune with the Wallingford RFC ballot, Jack and I got to go and watch England v Ireland at Twicken...
By Ben Seymour Date: 23rd February 2020
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Haikus
Coffee by Ben:
Begin each day as
if it was on purpose but
don’t forget coffee.
Dogs by Zoe:By Ben Seymour Date: 22nd February 2020 
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New Adventures 2020
Back in 2013, NAConf was one of the first web design conferences I attended, and it blew me away with some amazing talks...
By Ben Seymour Date: 24th January 2020
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Bikes, Boats, Scooters and Cable cars (nearly)
With this area of the world leading the way in many innovations and new business approaches I got to try some new and ol...
By Ben Seymour Date: 12th January 2020
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NEC for Motorcycle Live 2019
Motorcycle Live was a huge event, across 3 of the massive halls at the NEC, and its last day happened to coincide with m...
By Ben Seymour Date: 24th November 2019
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The extremes of The Roman Empire
Between Homestead Fort on the Scottish border, and Masada in Israel, in the last 9 months I have visited these two ancie...
By Ben Seymour Date: 8th August 2019
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Charles River Museum
In 1813 the first 'modern factory' designed by Lowell and Moody kick-started the American Industrial Revolution.
By Ben Seymour Date: 7th July 2019
Lo...
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The Linotype
Described by Edison as the 8th wonder of the world, I was fortunate enough to see 2 of these pivotal machines at The Cha...
By Ben Seymour Date: 6th July 2019
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British Museum
On my way to meetings nearby, I was able to take a 15 minute detour through the British Museum.
By Ben Seymour Date: 19th February 2019
stunning architectu...
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Motorsports heaven!
As well as visiting a number of race tracks including Le Mans, Monzo, Magny Cora, Spa and the Nurburgring, we also visit...
By Ben Seymour Date: 1st October 2018
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The fruits of our labours.
On the way back from my saturday morning swimming lessons I spotted loads of blackberries growing by the side of the roa...
By Zoe Seymour Date: 22nd September 2018