Tatters

I also loved this book when I first read it as a teenager many years ago, along with the Foundation series: another great Asimov book that springs to mind is The God Themselves, which is quite unlike anything else he wrote, but fascinating too.

Unfortunately when I reread Foundation many years later, it did not stand up to my memory. One of the downsides of getting older, if not wiser.

Sadly, I think you overestimate the general interest there would be in such an announcement. Also, it is not as though we will be getting images of little green aliens, any evidence will be far more circumstantial, tentative and over many years. It will be hard to sustain any public excitement for that long.

Did teenagers even exist when it was written?

Not just grandpa. How much of what we remember of 9/11 is accurate? How can we be sure? Is anyone fact checking our memories?

My wife and I generally eat my homemade sourdough over three days, as sandwiches and toast. By the third day it is a bit stale, but still OK for a sandwich, at which point I make some more. I use it for toast up to about five days, if there is any left (unlikely). It also freezes well, if sliced first.

I probably spend about 30 minutes every 3 days making it - obviously not including waiting time whilst proving/baking. Probably about 4 to 5 hours overall.

A lot of store sourdough bread has too open a crumb (bubbles are too big) for my preference, which makes them bland and too insubstantial to me. I prefer my bread to be a bit denser and with more substance, which equates to flavour.

I like homemade sourdough because it has a chewy, springy texture and more complex flavour, compared to other bread. I find most supermarket sourdough to be rather bland; small bakery sourdough tends to be a bit better.

This story is about the UK not the US. Pitbulls have been banned in the UK since 1991. There are not many pitbulls in the UK. Although the American XL Bully is closely related to the pitbull, it is not currently banned, but that may soon change.

So long ago now.

Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.