Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Where I used to live the naked cyclists’ annual ride used to cause quite a stir. On Sunday a naked peloton rode along the Brighton seafront (followed by an ice cream van called Mr Whippy) and looked completely at home and certainly not enough to distract the hoola hoopers. One of the pleasures of living in a seaside town is the disturbance of urban sobriety by those  in beach attire venturing into the town and the cyclists appeared as an extension of such behaviour.

Old Burying Ground

Old Burying Ground

Old Burying Ground

The consensus seems to be that the white covers are to protect the most friable gravestones from frost action (but the Titanic story appeals more).

A reminder to anyone interested in our funded PhD position at Brighton, the deadline is this coming week.

Here is the information again.

The content information is at:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/2013studentships/arts-and-humanities/project-1/

And the general details at:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/2013studentships

An intruder broke into the Museum of Comparative Anatomy in Paris (if you have not been, a pleasure to look forward to) and used a chainsaw to cut off the tusk off the elephant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/31/chainsaw-man-stealing-elephant-tusk-paris-museum

Here is the elephant in stereo (before the attack) :

Prairies

A farm just to the west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. A collection of autonomous sheds.

We have the possibility of a funded PhD position at Brighton.

The content information is at:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/2013studentships/arts-and-humanities/project-1/

And the general details at:

http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/2013studentships