Category Archives: Cromer

Introducing Humungous Biosciences

Posted on 13 April 2025 by Henry Gee

There has been much fuss and flapdoodle about a company called Colossal Biosciences that aims to use the wonders of modern genetic technology to call extinct species back from the other side of the rainbow bridge. Their latest scheme has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Wild!

Posted on 31 May 2021 by Henry Gee

Cromer is going wild! This notice from my daily constitutional shows that a small corner of a park, wedged between a childrens’ playground and the bowls club, is being allowed to let its hair down. I suspect that this will … Continue reading →

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Heirlooms, and Other Stuff

Posted on 18 November 2020 by Henry Gee

I’ve long been fascinated by Antiques Roadshow, a long-running Televisual Emission in which members of the public bring assorted objets, often of no conceivable use whatsoever except for the accumulation of surplus value, to be assessed and valued by experts. … Continue reading →

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The Doings Round My Parts

Posted on 18 November 2020 by Henry Gee

What have I been up to these past six years? Well, some of it can be found in the archived posts below. For those disinclined to delve, I shall attempt a succinct summary. But how does one even start to … Continue reading →

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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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Mosaic is the New Savanna

Posted on 14 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Time was when the model of human evolution went something like this: our ancestors essentially evolved to climb and live in trees, but with the general drying and cooling of the Earth’s climate over the past few million years, the … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #47

Posted on 14 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Custom-made Universes, made to order in Cromer. And you thought Cromer was all about crabs.

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Repair Newie

Posted on 12 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Cromer is pulling itself together after last December’s storm surge. When the Canes croxorum and I took advantage of the sunshine earlier today to investigate, we found that the beach huts were, in general, assuming a more upright state, though … Continue reading →

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The Maison De Girrafes Caption Competition #306

Posted on 5 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Lunchtime the bright spring sun blazed down so the dogs took me to the beach. This is what it looked like. Not bad for lunchtime, eh? But I digress.

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Writing Spaces

Posted on 20 February 2014 by Henry Gee

At the beginning of his memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it. I know, I know, I swore I wouldn’t, either.

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