If you read my blog
posts last year you may recall I
was intending to run a day session during adult learners week
on online dating so to
research i joined a couple of
free dating sites so my
Nerd Nerdish Nerdy photo
never pulled apart from scammers and one
message from a school secretary type middle aged woman writing
to tell me having read my profile " poet, won two national awards
in course of my teaching career and built my own astrolabe, - that
I was too clever for her "
Here is another astrolabe guaranteed to pull
the women
Not only have I build my own astrolabe I have even built my own alien astrolabe!
Based on calculations of proper motion and mapping a distant night sky it functions as an astrolabe would for a
binary star system with
G and K class stars and a
HZ planet orbiting at
405 days at 27 o tilt
note the first front plate is of the
alien constellations based on part of the year the sky is in binary twilight or white night it is partly in shadow with the
recognisable constellations Stormhorse
Archer, Rider Harper , Arrow path
, Water Slayer , Blind Watcher , Bright Dancer, Bird Catcher ,Pale Flower
the back plate is three to five interlocking discs and is used for navigation note the
small star field revolving disk the
heart of the sky which functions
as a celestial clock in a similar way to our own nocturnal or big dipper clock
the moon like disk at
the top is the representation against the star field clock of
the journey of Binary star B in its 80 year orbit
Judging by turnoff to women
of my astronomical astrolabe kit the
alien astrolabe design should work well with
the chat up line on speed
dating "where do you come
from?" in reply I point
up to the night sky in the general direction of
Orion and hiss an unearthly
"there!"
Recently the feedback
from an interview re volunteer to help
with website design was
"you talk too fast on many
subjects at once and assume
everyone are as clever as you!!!"
This organisation
CWCA asked for volunteers with some experience in Dreamweaver and I did
used to teach the subject !! -rejected
again
My former employer
who keep going in 2012 on some of
the funding I had gained for them before
making me redundant has finally given up on
Adult Education Community Learning
which I
developed for them in various forms from 1999 -2012
for this past year 2012-13 My former employer tried
to carry on with easy to supervise ukonline
log on online learning and
keeping my centres former
admin assistant on as staff
the last
website I designed for them vrds.org.uk
is a sorry sight now
the site is
missing all my centre videos most of my
accessibility code add ons and alternative versions
and ironically still bearing my
awarded badges of A prompt AAA
full accessibility on the site
when it is in fact AA or A
feedback on poetry
full of praise re epic and
excellent but also a
belief that my poetry is full of references
ie for bookshop in writewood reviews
reproduced here complete with
typos
"Instinct tells me this poem is GOOD. But my ignorence
forbids a review, I will look a few things up (Google it) and do a review
tomorrow."
or "A stunning
work of art..an intellectually supreme poem that had me googling, and then
coming back to contemplate the abstracts.
or Robinhood a companion piece to A Pirates life and Dauntless Dick Dark Dee
Dee
reviews of
" I was thinking 'Sherwoodesque' myself, I definitely don't recall a lot of this from
the movie version I watched! There's a bit of a scattergun approach here, it
feels quite zany and whimsical, with a lot of unexpected lines and references
to catch the eye."
or
"I think he's sort of mingling this with other things
and bring it all together in one big chaotic piece. I myself kept wondering how
many references there were total."
actually re Robinhood
it has many aspects of the Sherwood stuff but as a story
I MADE IT UP
re below lines
15-20 Robinhood by
Mark Littler June 2013 the
princess locked in the
convent
please don't google the story thinking it is a reference I made it up
!!!
" Sir Green
robbing Romance
Drugged out of a
white sleep locked drawn
in an overseas cloister
-as the tale is told -
some Nun from some obit
ended Royal house
gives her ring to someone
He has that Ring
and the Finger
sheeps tail upon
it"
I must add a rejoiner
re the comic book
inspired "Atom Spider versus Radio Killer Space
Mystery" August 2013
the characters
Atom Spider , Ice Olympia, Jack Clock Carter and Professor Noble Fields are
my creations as symbolic comic book
archetypes not
superheroes published at the time
"Zennor
Wedding" Mermaid Sequel
been scribbling away
at it for a week at 185
lines but far from complete
where as everything
else written over three days or less usually friday -Sunday
I also wrote in the
same weekend in one minute
bursts two brief 8 line
love conceit framers part of my "rediscovered first and
second world war love letter"
series
