Clockwise to Titan

I've been on holiday, and my son read a book I liked, so here's an idle bit of logrolling which might be of interest. Back to business shortly

One of the nice things about writing a book is that people start sending you books to read. It is especially good when the books are from and by people that you used to know (though not necessarily in the Gotye way).

Elon Dann did a PhD in particle physics at DESY in Hamburg at the same time as me. He was called Alistair then. We're talking about the early 1990s, a lot has happened since. Alistair I weren't particularly close friends, but we got on, and there's a certain camaraderie amongst a cohort of PhD students (there's the awful RAL Summer School photograph you share, for example). Alistair and I also, as his book reminds me, share a taste for wordplay.