The sky is painting with the most amazing colour gradients over Surrey, South England today.
I am lucky enough to effectively have a rooftop apartment now so I got a great view.
This dramatic low, dense cloud at sunset is the effect of three different low pressure systems moving over the UK, bringing a stream of warm, cold and occluded fronts one after the other.
Oh if it had feathers I would definitely have bought it right there and then!
Also met Tony Hallam last week at the Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinction conference!
He wrote one of my favourite mass extinciton books - ‘Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities’ - which I have a snapshot of Mr Whiddington reading somewhere… He focuses more on sea level change while many others in the field of mass extinction research focus more on volcanism, impacts and palynology.
Met Gerta Keller last week at the Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinction conference :)
She is so awesome, she has done loads of work defining the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary especially around the Deccan, and she pretty much organised the entire conference which is rad!
I do like a good volcano for breakfast.
Cruciform twinned Titanite from Drun Tobel, Switzerland.
From the Natural History Museum London collection.
This Easter, this is how I like my cruciforms. Proper dream sample, this.
They were selling these books in the gift shop outside the extinction exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Love their sense of humour!
The NHM now sell Tyrannosaurus models with the scientifically correct spinal position
Trying to blame someone for having a chemical imbalance in their brain (read: mental disorder) is like trying to blame a volcano for erupting. Like telling it off can somehow make it stop. And also, too many people try and just plug the volcano up, pretend the lava inside doesn’t exist, instead of attempting to figure out & understand its internal workings. That way it’s just gonna increase the pressure so much until a massive explosive eruption occurs, shattering the volcano’s structure and affecting far more surrounding inhabitants than it otherwise would have done.
I don’t believe I have shown you this year’s Filofax yet.
Presenting FUN WITH WHIDDINGTON 2013
