Brian Derby

@brianderby.bsky.social

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Materials Scientist- Researching the Interesting. Manchester UK. Brompton owner https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/brian.derby

Photo of main stage at WOMAD showing Seppuku Pistols one of the bands

Snowdrops

Showing 2 mirror image guitar bodies and necks

Cast taking curtain call at the Swan Theatre in Stratford

Oasis merch stall outside Manchester Central Library

Fungus fruiting body (toadstool) on a lawn

Rock Formations

Grave in churchyard with sign saying it belongs to Little John - one of Robin Hood’s Merry Men

White blossom flowers before the leaves are out on a blackthorn bush

An image showing the disc of the sun partially eclipsed by the moon.

Image shows a room with a desk and next to it a keyboard instrument - possibly a spinet

Showing a straight and muddy path with a bicycle. It is the route of an old Roman Road.

Showing a snowy landscape which is the Bridgewater Canal drained and eroded after embankment breach

A mince pie in front of a laptop

Aurora visible behind trees

Three park runners at Keswick

Cover of The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb by Mervyn Peake showing a passerby and a stylised dive trail of a flying bomb (World War 2, V1)

Cover of Red Shift by Alan Garner showing a signal light from the ruin of Mow Cop

Box Set Cover of the 3 Volumes of Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien showing stylised ring framing a red eye

Cover of the New Science of Strong Materials by J.E. Gordon showing an image of an opera singer shattering a glass

Cover picture from Food for Free by Richard Manet showing a range of edible fungi, nuts, fruits and leaves

Cover of Moby Dick by Herman Melville showing a line drawing of a whale leaping from the ocean.

Cover of The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose

Cover of The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock. The image shows a chaotic scene with a burning pyramid behind a woman's body and a stream of people coming out of her mouth into a sea

Cover of The Cartoon History of the Universe. Image shows two sauropod dinosaurs in a loving pose with other dinosaurs lookin on.

Image of the cover of The New Men by CP Snow. It is showing a line of chess pawns, perhaps referencing the roles of the protagonists in the novel.

Book cover of The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. Jacket shows reproduction of a print of the ship "Beagle"

Book cover of "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien (Picador Edition) showing ink sketch of Irish Policeman (Garda)

A can of Radioactive Worms IPA showing landscape of industrial desolation and giant green worms

Showing the cast of Swan Lake taking the curtain call

Painting of Mornington Crescent London - infamous as destination in the eponymous game