Good day to you, my name's Colm Philpott, welcome to my blog! This blog started as a space for me to talk about my experience of coming to the realization that I'm autistic quite late in life. Eventually I branched out into talking about music, cycling and astronomy. Over the last two years I've blogged more about my ever increasing interest in wildlife. And a topic I talk about frequently, that I think everyone should be talking about, is the genocide in Gaza.
11th May 2017, Carrigadrohid Castle. I think this is probably the best non-astronomy drawing I ever did. Full discloser, I can’t actually spell Carrigadrohid. Many instances of me writing the word in this blogpost will be me copying and pasting the word. It’s possible by the end of the blogpost I will know how to … Continue reading My Only Non Repeating Cycle, To the Wonderful Carrigadrohid Castle
Content Warning: This won’t just be a concert review, I’ll also be talking about issues related to anxiety and depression. “Ah, that’s a hyperbolic title,” you must be thinking. “It was a really good concert sure, but surely not enough to pull you out of feelings of sadness.” “Surely this, “progressive metal”, as you young … Continue reading The Devin Townsend Concert Of December 2019, It Cured All Of My Sorrows
16th November 2023. Look at it there threatening to kill our very distant descendants, BOOOOO!!! So, it looks like your very, very distant descendants are in for a very, very bad time. Because the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are going to collide in 4 billion years time. So unless they have the … Continue reading The Andromeda Galaxy, We Only Have 4 Billion Years To Get Out Of The Way
21st January 2021, My Only Sketch Of Uranus I only saw Uranus and sketched it once with my telescope, it’s far further out than Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which you can just spot with the naked eye first and then train the telescope on it. But I find with Uranus there’s a bit of … Continue reading Uranus, The Planet That’s At A Mad Angle
9th July 2018 These two galaxies had a level of courtesy rarely seen these days in that they are very close together, so you can see both of them at the same time through a telescope. I remember in 2015, the year I bought my first telescope, seeing my first ever galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy. … Continue reading Bode’s Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy, Two For The Price Of One
Not Safe For Humans Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a furious deathworld of extremely deathy death! So, I’ve explained that this sketch is associated with extreme hellishness, so what do you think it is? It’s the planet Venus. I realized Venus was out last night, and also it’s … Continue reading My Favourite Hellscape
So if you’ve read my previous cycling blogpost: https://autismneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/my-only-unsuccessful-cycling-trip/ You’ll know that I could not let the fact that there was one cycle I didn’t complete go. It was like my white whale, except, you know considerably safer than chasing a white whale. I was going to repeat the cycle, taking a lot more rests … Continue reading I Can’t Let Anything Go, Repeating My Failed Cycle In the Hope of Succeeding This Time
You’ve read about the hardest cycle I’ve ever did (assuming you’re read my other blogposts, it was presumptous of me to assume that but I did it anyway.) Then, in what may have been the most anticlimatic way of putting out blogposts ever, you read about the second hardest cycle I ever did, then the … Continue reading The Boatiest Cycle I Ever Did
I remember, and I don’t believe I’ll ever forget it, my first time seeing Saturn through a telescope. There was a small light in the sky, and I wasn’t sure what it was but I thought I’d point my telescope at it, maybe it was Saturn. I looked at the light, and at first I … Continue reading Saturn, the Second Best Planet In the Solar System
So, what do you think is the best thing about Winter? Let me save you time, if your answer was anything other than “The return of the Orion Nebula”, then you are wrong, objectively wrong. We may each of us disagree on anything from musical taste to political issues, but how could anyone in their … Continue reading The Best Thing About Winter
Ponderings Of An Autist 