Our new house sign. The house didn’t have a sign.

From under the floor. He looks like a murderer but might have an OBE and might have something to do with cricket. Who cares – it’s just beautiful.

I imaging that everyone, when they move house, is excited about what they’ll find under the carpets. Just like me.

Last weekend was Le Mans (I mention this as it’s an important thing to me).

This was the newspaper that we found when pulling back some carpet at the new house. Just look how important Le Mans was back then. Radio and TV coverage on BBC 1, on a Sunday afternoon. And Radio. Radio 1!

So, when was this? Well, Radio 1 moved from 247m (to 275 / 285m) in November 1978 so it was before then. A detailed analysis of what seemed to be on telly could narrow it down.

Learning about ‘Farming in Israel’ sounds like fun. As does ‘New Clothes That Count’ (?).

I found the list in Sainsburys, as usual.

Hieronymus Bosch was on the back of the piece of paper.

That’s a nut and a bolt.

Hotels have free stuff. This one had ‘buy me’ stuff. Because of this, almost everything in the room had a price tag – the room was filled with lovely stuff so they had to remind you that it wasn’t ‘take-able’.

There was just so much of it.

Hotel was the W in Hoboken, New Jersey.

This is the research ‘paper’ I wrote as the final assignment for my Manchester University course: Life in the Universe and SETI.

The assignment brief was that it had to be about 1500 words and be aimed at a broadsheet newspaper / popular science journal type of audience, and be about anything to do with SETI (there was more to it than that, but you get the gist).

ASTR10200 – Assignment 5 – Research Article