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You must see the film Untouchable. A very funny and warm story that will have you laughing out loud and dabbing your eyes. Like the poster says, ‘an absolute must see’. Great, great, great! Don’t spoil it by looking up the reviews and finding out the plot. Enjoy. French with subtitles.

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The grim reaper

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012

Walking down the high street I was accosted by a Greenpeace chugger (twice), a will-writer salesman and a funeral-plan salesman.

I’m hoping that the latter two were not indicative of a serious decline in how well I look!

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Inspector Montalbano

Saturday, Oct 6, 2012

A complicated and complex story left me a bit bewildered but once again a wonderfully enjoyable episode of Inspector Montalbano, oozing humour, beauty and real class.

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Thames sunshine

Saturday, Oct 6, 2012

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Happy and sad numbers

Saturday, Sep 29, 2012

In Pickering I was browsing a second-hand bookshop / toy shop and came across the most unlikely of books to buy – Oxford Study Mathematics Dictionary. At £3.99 it was a bit expensive for an obscure read, but what magic is contained within!

It’s a maths dictionary. ie All the maths words and phrases, with a simple definition. As I work my way through the entries I will post any interesting entries. For example happy numbers and sad numbers.

19, for example, is a happy number because you can square all its digits and add them together to make another number and by repeating this process eventually you get a result which is the number 1.

For example 19 -> 1 + 81 -> 82 -> 64 + 4 -> 68 -> 36 + 64 -> 100 -> 1 + 0 + 0 -> 1

If this process doesn’t eventually result in the number 1, then the number is said to be ‘sad’! The number 18 is an example of a sad number! Do the maths yourself!

See Wikipedia to blow your mind further.

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