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Days 11 & 12 on GR5
Today the weather broke and I walked in rain all day to Modane , 17 miles in less than 6 hours with only one stop. The going was easy on the GR5E with only about 500ft or so of climbs all day from Lanslevillard. I kept reasonably dry, the Scarpa boots kept my feet really…
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Day 10 on the GR5
Made it to Val D’Isére today on my 9th walking day from St Gingolph on Lake Geneva. The new Scarpa boots I bought in Chamonix en-route are great, my heel blisters caused by the Raichle boots I bought in Cambridge have now disappeared. The vertical ascents on this route are amazing. My prediction is it…
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Route Planning
Here is the summary of the first two days walk that I propose starting on Saturday. I intend to follow the GR5 from St. Gingolph on Lake Geneva to Nice. I’m using , for the first time the memory-map software [Important the Alpes version MMV5/IGN/PE/MB388/CI is faulty call 01189062600 to get a version that has Geneva…
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Result Day
Here is Em really jubilant at her excellent GCSE results. She managed 7 A* and 4 A’s. I’m a really proud dad today. All of her friends also did well, interestingly her friends who went to Parkside did exactly as well as her friends at The Perse, and apparently Joe from Parkside received a letter of commendation, been…
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River of News Revisited ..
Just under a year ago I organised the Our Social World conference here in Cambridge, UK. One of the cool things that Adrian kindly did for us was a river of news feeds that was displayed on the projector. This displayed all mentions of the conference, including all the delegates, and also since we are…
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Medion MD5909 DECT telephone
For any of you out there who might be struggling, like I was, to locate the instruction book/manual for the MD5909 DECT phone that Aldi sells. It can be found here. In fact the problem was a duff base station that rang with incoming calls but non of the remote phones could answer 🙁 I…
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Living my life…
Thanks to Old-faithful Wolf from the MKP for this inspiring quote:-From the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz: 1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction…
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Main stream media starts to trust the blogosphere….
A really excellent idea, outlined here, of how The Washington Post intends to make an improved version of a blogroll by:- A link to members’ blogs will be featured in our Sponsored Blogroll index, giving your writing promotional space on the washingtonpost.com home page and giving you an introduction to an audience of 8 million…
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Insanely addictive – Popsugar
Amazing site for the teens and slightly above just look at this river of comments pouring in from its users, in real time. Another Myspace or YouTube in the making. The site is still privately owned “Sugar Publishing is a privately-owned media company focused on creating the best online editorial and community for trendsetting, passionate,…
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Ringing phone on plane.
Its seems true we are all going mad. This BA plane was forced to turn back “Security teams on the ground advised that the plane could continue safely but after 90 minutes angry passengers complained and the pilot returned to the UK”. What ever were those passengers thinking off? and what about the poor guy…