The next (second)  issue of our science fact and fiction magazine, Escape Velocity, is released ahead of schedule and can be seen here http://www.escapevelocitymagazine.com/

It has exciting stories by Sheila Crosby, Dan Kopcow, Duane Byers, Victor Kuprin, Gustavo Bondoni, Henry Tjernland, Adam Colston, Michael Anderson, Shaun A. Saunders, Nick Wood, Derek Rutherford, and Paul Freeman. A poem by Magdalena Ball, photographs, articles, cartoons and a puzzle. Cheaper than the last one, so why not give it a shot?

You never know who is reading your blog until someone contacts you out of the grey (raining again here). There’s an  arts festival event coming up in Melbourne, Australia, called New Wave and the theme is ‘Closer Together’. You might remember that on March 25 2007 while on a bicycle ride, I encountered the tragic yet amusing sight of a car stuck in the middle of a hedge. It looked as if the hedge roots got fed up with hawthorn and decided to sprout the metal box. Funnier were the two bemused owners, who lost control of the car en route to work, and who were less afraid of the police or farmer’s wrath than that of their mother! That Lache Lane must be really slippery for cars because three more vehicles have leapt off the road since. The Australians want to use my photo of the car. I’m honoured but a little puzzled why a picture of a car in a hedge shows a coming together unless in a surreal way!

The link to that old post (scroll down to find it) is http://geoffnelder.wordpress.com/page/11/