Erika has beaten me to it by a fraction, but here is my story so far. With more pictures.
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Cromer is SO Bracing - Saturday Afternoon
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- Saturday, 28 Feb ruary 2009 - 18:28 UTC
The creative ferment that was our scriptwriting session at the Cliftonville Hotel got off to a caffeinesque start.
Frank, too early to be photographed. ProbablyHere we are, working on the story for our epic production Cromer: Darwin’s Lost Weekend. We’ve now got a storyboard – we’ll work on the script tomorrow and shoot the thing tomorrow afternoon.
Someday, allGeneral Assemblies of the United Nationsconferences will be like this
John Gilbey reliving his days as understudy to Charlton Heston in ‘The Ten Commandments’After that we decided to go to the beach, the weather not being very bracing at all.
CISB’09 outside the Gee Beach Hut
Kristi, with Gee Minima almost but not quite out of shotSo much so that some
insaneindomitable Gees actually went paddling, barefoot, and Gee Minor discovered the most incredible sea-urchin fossil we’ve ever found …SCIENCE PART – LISTEN CAREFULLY The Pleistocene sludge on which Cromer is built is underpinned by Late Cretaceous chalk bedrock. The chalk washes away to leave the flints, used in vernacular architecture, and quite a few of which preserve heart urchins (Micraster) and various kinds of regular echinoid. We’ve got a nice collection at the M des Gs.
When the weather got too bracing we repaired to the M des Gs where Graham did the CISB live feed and the rest of us got down to some heads-down no-nonsense bloggeration.
Erika, bloggerating while on the same sofa once slept on by a Dr B. Z. of Chapel Hill, NC
John Gilbey, and friend… and Kristi and the Younger Gees crocheted up a veritable invertebrate storm.
Les Tricoteuses, earlier todayThe result was a sea-slug called Euclid, and two sea urchins, one called Ovid. Not sure what the other one’s called.
In the evening we had our Symposium Dinner at the Cromer Tandoori
And rounded off the evening at the bar of the Red Lion Hotel, where we discussed the perennial problems of pseudonymity, the possibility of publishing collaborations in the credit crunch and other equally serious issues, including a suggestion for NN. We observed that both of our Dead Bloggers are male and British, (as well as dead). It was felt that we should encourage the participation of a female blogger, just as dead, but preferably from outside the UK, and perhaps with a penchant for physics. We nominated Marie Curie, and her blog could be called The End Of The Pierre Show (not me, honest – I think Kristi thought of it first, no, really).
… and tomorrow, in between filmic assignments, some of us will go on a geology field trip to West Runton, home of the type section of the Cromerian Stage of the British Middle Pleistocene.
Last updated: Saturday, 28 Feb 2009 - 18:28 UTC
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Comments
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It just looks such fun! I was in a parallel session at the Apollo theatre in London, watching James McAvoy. Nothing like as healthy, or as scientific.
i wish i was there! but alas, i’ve been kidnapped and removed to helsinki although i might be released to the custody of my parrots in another few weeks.
Hello Maxine and Grrl Scientist! Wish you both could be here – we’re having a fabulous time. And science…yes, lots of science too. I’m reverting to my British phenotype, and I might have a difficult job returning to life in Texas.
I should have mentioned, I was experiencing “Three Days of Rain” so at least weather came into it somewhere! (If no more Texan than Cromer.)
Ideal filming weather; overcast and showery. Mrs Gee and I frantically cleaning up the MdGs before the symposium reconvenes at 10.30. What are peoples’ lunch preferences?
Pictures, please, of both the fossil and crochet invertebrates!
Here we are at the hotel doing interior shots. We think the woman next door thinks we’re making some low-rent Adult Picture.
@Karen. You asked, we listened. Follows a snap of Gee Minor’s home made crochet invertebrate. Forgive me, but I forget it’s name, but I think it’s a sea-slug:-
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Later on on the Saturday, when no-one was
awakelooking, I ventured deep into the garden of MdGs to see if I could capture some video footage of Beezlebun Demon Bunny of DOOM. Ensure that you click on full-screen to get the best view. !Oh, dear, Graham – that’s a sea urchin (echinoderm), not a sea slug (nudibranch). Gee Minor wanted to make a pocket version of the larger sea urchin that I brought. She added more spines to the final product as well. I can’t remember which creatures got which names, though.
@ Graham – Mrs Gee and I loved the video, especially the spooky music. And we warned you not to geet to close. She’s not called the Demon Bunny of DOOM for nothing.
The creature pictured is a sea urchin called Ovid. The other one is called Erasmus. We can’t remember what the sea-slug’s called.