The train from London had been held up for the best part of an hour somewhere between Grantham and Retford. …
Author: Chris Short
Tribute to John Forster
(died 2022) Rounding Calcutt cricket field a fourteenth timeHis thoughts were elsewhere, occupied with leadership,New ventures to be scoped, and …
Ozymandias completed
A recently discovered completion of Shelley’s Ozymandias
Briggate Museum
This article was published in DDD, the newsletter of 3D archeology group, in December 2019. A new museum of local …
Pontefract Hermitage water problem
This article was published in The Environment magazine November 2019, describing 10 years of investigations and campaigning to rectify the …
In Memoriam
This horrific scene is attached to the portico of the ‘Italian Church’ in Holborn, London. We saw some other …
The Launch
Seven weeks since I started and now I’m ready to launch the site. I’ve learnt a lot about WordPress and …
Choral singing highlights
In 1999, my 14th year as a tenor with Leeds Festival Chorus, I sang with the male voices of the …
A bit more background
I’ve previously created websites from scratch using HTML and Javascript (Chris Short Water Quality), then adding some CSS for simple …
Messing about in boats and WordPress
It’s 19 December 2017 – in one week’s time I’ll be 70. Having just retired from the IChemE Water Special …