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.
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
Okay, technically, more stuff doesn’t happen on Jupiter than on Saturn, Uranus, or, what’s the other greenish one, the one with the lions, oh yeah, Earth, but because Jupiter is so big, and relatively (I really stress reletively!), near, you can see a lot of interesting stuff there. So join me (figuratively, no offence, but … Continue reading Jupiter, The Planet Where Loads Of Stuff Happens
11th August 2020. First attempt at sketching Mars at opposition. At least I captured the ice cap, but I would learn a valuable lesson, pastel pencils are good for sketching many things, but not Mars, they are not good for sketching Mars at all! Although this sketch is kind of adorable it lacks the detail … Continue reading The Year Mars Got Really, Really Big
Oh hello, would you like to have a three to four hour conversation about organs? Did you know that Laurens Hammond wasn’t even a musician and wasn’t in favour of combining the organ he invented with the iconic Leslie Speaker? What’s that, you’re busy? Oh that’s fine, we will continue this four hour discussion tomorrow, … Continue reading Autistic Special Interests And Why I Won’t Shut Up About Organs
Saw this much detail even with a bright moon spoiling my fun! So it was a clear night last night, though there was a very bright moon. Though one lesson astronomy has taught me repeatedly, even when I won’t listen, is take what you can get! You’ll like a clear night with a bright moon … Continue reading Messier 92, An Old Classic Of Astronomy, Emphasis On Old
Many people will tell you that the lives of autistic people are simply unparalleled tragedy, and they should know, the people who say this are not autistic themselves, and therefore know better than autistic people! But I am here to tell you that these people who don’t speak for autistic people are right. My life … Continue reading The Tragedy of Autism
Isn’t This The Cutest Globular Cluster You Ever Did See? So it was a clear night last night, and knowing I might not get another clear night for a while, I went into the shed and dragged out my ten inch telescope. Then I got my pencils and sketch pad, and began astronomy sketching! Astronomy … Continue reading The Great Cluster of Hercules
Ponderings Of An Autist 