I love the film footage of the Endurance: I love those little white ... what are they, anemones? I first saw the footage posted with commentary that began, "Found north of Antarctica... " which was prompting lots of hilarity in the responses. "Least specific locational information ever" etc.

Falling asleep and waking up with the fire out really is Yeats-like. Too early for a girl with apple blossoms in her hair, though.

Where does your dad get salts for different colored flames? (I assume plain-old NaCl wasn't all he was using)