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.

The End Of The End Of The Pier Show?

Posted on 5 December 2013 by Henry Gee

This picture taken not one hour since by Cromer resident Spencer Gray and posted on Twitter (@spenny10) shows the proximal end of Cromer Pier getting a thorough battering in a lethal combo of high winds and high tides not seen … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #15

Posted on 3 December 2013 by Henry Gee

This one spotted on a large wooden packing case in the loading dock of a university department, by our correspondent Professor Trellis of North Wales, who disclaims all responsibility. “What the large wooden edifice contains seems to be a mystery,” … Continue reading →

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All I Want For Christmas

Posted on 1 December 2013 by Henry Gee

It’s now awfully fashionable to compile lists of things to see or do before you die. These lists are called Bucket Lists, presumably for the colloquialism in which ‘kicking the bucket’ means ‘die’ (qv. ‘bought the farm’, ‘flensed the ferret’, … Continue reading →

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They Shoot Authors, Don’t They? A Guest Post by Mark Lloyd

Posted on 27 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Mark Lloyd has just spent the weekend as a self-published author, plugging his book Rum Humour/Rum Humor on social media. And it hasn’t been fun. Activity. Bags of activity: hands and fingers slapping on keyboards, copying and pasting, tweeting, commenting, … Continue reading →

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Age

Posted on 24 November 2013 by Henry Gee

They say that you know you’re getting old when a good day is waking without pain. I haven’t quite got that far yet, though I have reached a Professor Branestawm stage with my spectacles. The picture on the right shows, … Continue reading →

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Who

Posted on 23 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Unless you have been buried 37 miles underground on the fifth moon of Jaglon Beta since – oooh – the Middle Pleistocene, it will not have escaped your notice that the 50th anniversary approaches of the first broadcast of Dr … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal for the Improvement of Conferences

Posted on 19 November 2013 by Henry Gee

I am at a coffee break at a conference and a person of a certain age has just engaged me in conversation – having mistaken me for someone else, having been unable to read my name badge. The badges are … Continue reading →

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Mermaids, Museums … and Murder

Posted on 16 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Some of you will remember my gothic horror detective mystery romp By The Sea, first serialised on LabLit courtesy of Dr J. R. of Rotherhithe, and then turned into a book. It’s still available on Kindle and as a paperback, … Continue reading →

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The Flies of Memory

Posted on 13 November 2013 by Henry Gee

This is the tragic paradox of the pin-sharp: the problem with cameras is that your memory of a scene becomes condensed around that one snapshot and everything else fades. Your holiday, so fluid, so subtle, so weighted with memory, is … Continue reading →

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A New Pet

Posted on 12 November 2013 by Henry Gee

This afternoon I discovered this butterfly, in a somewhat sleepy state, on the windowsill behind my computer screen.  I didn’t have the heart to put it out of the window. After I posted the picture on the soshul meeja, my friend … Continue reading →

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