Author Archives: Henry Gee

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and any comments therein do not reflect the opinions of anyone but myself, as they don't know where they've been.

Falling To Bits

Posted on 12 May 2014 by Henry Gee

My car, Caroline the eVolvo 850, who is eighteen years old, has just celebrated an anniversary of sorts. This morning on the way to work she turned over her 170,000th mile. Now, this isn’t much in the great scheme of … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #98

Posted on 12 May 2014 by Henry Gee

Person throwing a bottle at a decerebrated dalek? At Victorian foundationwear? What? It’s all a matter of perspective.

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Diary of a Proud Father

Posted on 8 May 2014 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor is a Youth Ambassador for a charity called Children of Peace, which aims to foster links between children in the Middle East. You might remember that she had a bake sale at school which raised £85 for the charity … Continue reading →

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The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition #232

Posted on 8 May 2014 by Henry Gee

‘You answer it.’ ‘No, YOU answer it.’

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Because The Night

Posted on 6 May 2014 by Henry Gee

Kids are wonderful. Also generous. When they were small and running with stenchly ichors from various orifices, they donated a wide variety of microscopic organisms for the amusement of my immune system. That was then. Now, though.

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Tsundoqueue

Posted on 4 May 2014 by Henry Gee

I have written in these annals about the phenomenon of tsundoku – and judging by the hits that post continues to receive, it’s a topic perennially resonant with readers. For the hard-of-linking, tsundoku may be defined as tsundoku (n.) the act … Continue reading →

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The Night Circus

Posted on 29 April 2014 by Henry Gee

When Crox Minima (13) urged me to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which happened to be a favourite book of one of her classmates, I assumed that it would be the kind of book one would associate with, … Continue reading →

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Yom HaShoah – A Guest Post by Crox Minor

Posted on 28 April 2014 by Henry Gee

As today is Yom HaShoah, I would like to ask everyone to think for a moment about prejudice, from the genocides that are still going on to casual remarks about immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities made daily by the … Continue reading →

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Jews On Bikes

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Sometimes the most memorable televisual emissions come from random channel-surfing. So it was last night when Mrs Crox came across a documentary on Sky Atlantic called Jews On Bikes. This follows the fortunes of a group of British Jewish bikers … Continue reading →

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Cold Shot

Posted on 24 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Inspired in part by Steve’s recent post and prompted by a recent efflorescence of telephonic effluvia, I am moved to write about the increasing incidence of cold-callers who ring my home number (and my mobile number) offering various services, mainly … Continue reading →

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