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Les Gets is having plenty of snow this year :-). Here is a snapshot of the webcam in the centre of the village, looks like they have set up a snowboard park in the village square with some guy just getting air on his board! You can see my apartment on the webcam as well, […]
A post for posterity, in case I loose the instruction manual for my Ryobi IR Thermometer Model SW-638E, a Christmas present from Sally. It can measure temperatures of -20 to +315 degrees Celsius However, for the lower temperatures it can take 10-15minutes to adjust. For best accuracy the objects have to be under 2 feet […]
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ team walk was led by Rita. Nine of us set off from Waterbeach village green heading for Anglesey abbey via Lode. At last its warming up and the ground is drying out with a few buds beginning to form on the hedgerows. Vast hordes of people had descended on Anglesey […]
So much for the UK’s special relationship with the USA. The word United Kingdom or UK have never been mentioned in a Presidents Union Address. Here are the results for England and Britain! Seems as though we didn’t get much of a mention after 1950! Many thanks to speechwars for the analysis. Powered by ScribeFire.
Boer War Gun at Gun Green Originally uploaded by geofones A lovely bit of local history detail that Alan Brigham dug up from Mike Petty after Alan visited my flickr set of Old Cambridge postcards. (The Boer war ended in 1902) Its such a great pity that all the newspapers archives are not online and […]
Twitter is just so useful. I noticed that my gmail wasn’t working online at all. In these cases its usual for me to start kicking the computer/firefox/router 🙁 But now with Twitscoop in my sidebar all is revealed:- and looking at the time line of twitters mentioning ‘gmail’ is quite cool:- This Twitter just made […]
A new quick way of losing weight at WeightMirror: Compared to when I really was thin:- Powered by ScribeFire.
Happy birthday to Nick my first child 🙂 Here he is on his first day in Mill Road maternity hospital at 4am or so. and now he is father to my two grandchildren, Isla & Liam 🙂 Powered by ScribeFire.
Today’s ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team started further afield 🙂 The start was at Audley End, Vera led 13 of us, at a cracking pace, across the rolling Essex countryside to The Langleys were we stopped for our sandwiches outside the The Bull. Tea was taken alongside the stream in the very […]
Just back from the inaugural OpenCoffee meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by Jed. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!) turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest […]