by Jack Barrow | Sep 18, 2018 | In SatNav We Trust, Travelogue, Writing
This post is copied from the crowd funding page for In SatNav We Trust. Please visit to support the book. Okay so the first day is done and we’re on target at 1%. I say the first day, the page has been live since the beginning of September but we’ve been...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 31, 2018 | Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
You clicked on that link on Facebook, you know that link, possibly clickbait but you wanted to see for yourself, after all it’s only a picture of an old shoe dug up from Roman times. But you don’t get the world’s most interesting shoe, you get a brief, tempting flash...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 29, 2018 | Pop Philosophy, Science, Travelogue, Writing
Those of you in the know, and you know who you are, will be aware that I’ve recently been in talks with a new publisher for my travelogue. I’ve been holding back, apart from the occasional post about progress, because the title wasn’t formally agreed and there were...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 17, 2018 | General Blog, Travelogue, Writing
I’m in music hell! There was a guy who lived in New York in the fifties and sixties called Moondog. He was a street performer and composer, a busker I guess. He was blind, at one time homeless although he later had a country retreat, but he made his money by selling...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 14, 2018 | Media, Non Fiction, Pop Philosophy, Science, Travelogue, Writing
Tim Peake was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning answering the question of, “Was the universe designed by a higher intelligence?” This was the way the question was posed to Britain’s latest astronaut by the BBC’s Justin Webb. Tim Peak’s Soyuz capsule is...
