In December, I'm going to embark with a few other people on a "sew-along" adventure targeted at beginners. My sewing skills are limited to sort-of-putting back together fallen buttons and er that's about it, so this should be an interesting experience!

This is the first post from Gertie about this …

Despite finding it a bit hard to start, I tremendously enjoyed Chris Beckett's Marcher novel -- I would recommend not reading the extract at the beginning of the book. The italicised prologue is a bit heavy too, but provides some context and once you get through it the story gets interesting …

Another lovely look into Feynman's life, this book is a collection of letters Feynman sent during his lifetime. Witty replies to friends and laypeople, humble (and sometimes annoyed!) comments about the Nobel Prize, encouraging answers to students and many different types of letter make for a very interesting and entertaining …

Last Thursday I happily attended TEDx Dublin 4.0 at the Science Gallery. I thought it was a bit too computer sciency slanted (I really enjoyed the 3rd edition, with talks on physical product design, or shark slime, and other very interesting things I would never have thought about otherwise …

Stones into Schools is the follow-up story to Three cups of tea, starting in 2003 where we left Greg Mortenson looking to expand the Central Asia Institute mission to building schools in Afghanistan. As expected the story is just as engaging and fascinating as the one narrated in the first …