Month: February 2009
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That special relationship with the USA
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.
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Gun to Guns on Gun Green
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…
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Gmail and Twitter?
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…
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Remove 50 pounds instantly!
A new quick way of losing weight at WeightMirror: Compared to when I really was thin:- Powered by ScribeFire.
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It was 34 years ago today…
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.
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Cambridge Rambling Club – Audley End ramble
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…
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Cambridge -UK – Open Coffee
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…
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Subsidies in action
From blogoir I discovered this cool site trying to throw light on EU farm & agricultural subsidies. For instance in the UK the average direct aid per farm worker is €9,236 and each hectare of farm land gets €210. Huge companies also have their snout in the trough e.g. Tate & Lyle Europe receives an…
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School work
Whilst in one of my attics, trying to sort out why the shower drain isn’t working. I came across the ironing board that I made at school when I was 13 or 14. Since it was combined woodwork/metalwork I had to make the bracket as well! Interestingly my mum used it until she died, giving…