Rich Kidd

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Head of Chemistry Data at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Also InChI Trust and chemical standards, but have also loaded up on starter lists of other interesting stuff.

Big orange beach ball-like alien, black spotted with white highlights, sporting a well-matched pair of monster claws. In a kitchen. Probably nothing to worry about.
Recent Kindle searches for quotes from Moby Dick, I can't remember half of these: pip, 95, oceanica, jereboam, Bulkington, squeezing, Don Pedro, allegory...
Fish with giant lower teeth is eating a man. Another naked man running away in some alarm. Woodcut from 1550
Serving plate featuring engraving of a sperm whale. Can only be foreshadowing.
"sea bishop" for gullible visitors, whitby museum
Image from Tarkovsky's Stalker. River or pool, covered in a thick layer of gently undulating brown industrial sludge. The wind creates vortexes of the dust, and larger flakes of god-knows-what look like snowflakes. Miraculously some green reeds are growing through it in places
Apple tree just missing its century, few leaves this year, regular fungus, even the mistletoe has given up, now wobbling at the stump so rotting underground. Never pinned down the variety, late August with firm fruit softening quickly, pronounced aniseed flavour. Shown with crown before hacking back
Maria Schell in overcoat and hat, holding a teddy bear. Behind her is a Christmas tree decked with tinsel and candles, and a sideboard. Subtitled "it's Christmas Eve..."
InChI developers chat on zoom
ChemSpider webinar, on 7th December at 3pm GMT