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Scarborough, Yorkshire
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Who’s that striding through at 1m 30s?
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7 P&O liners leaving Southampton
Taken with a rubbish phone-camera in the misty rain! -
Cornwall for a couple of days
In Cornwall for a couple of days for a funeral, staying at the Finnygook Inn in the tiny village of Crafthole, just across the water from Plymouth. Excellent dinner at the Finnygook followed by watching a glorious win for Spain at Euro 2012. The following day, the weather is appalling for the funeral.
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Books
I can highly recommend “The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut”, a very fine novel set in rural South Africa.
AND I have just read a fabulously funny short story “A Convalescent Ego by Richard Yates” in which the couple are called Jean and Bill and the son is called Mike! -
Walk from Tower Bridge to the City
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Books
Recently read and which I can recommend:- Snow Drops – A.D.Miller
An enjoyable and atmospheric story set in Moscow - The Mind’s Eye – Hakan Nesser
An enjoyable Scandinavian thriller - Air Mail – Terry Ravenscroft
Laugh-out-loud letters between the writer and the airlines - Through the Looking Glass – Guy Deutscher
A fascinating look at how our language may effect the way we think
Currently reading:
- The Good Doctor – Damon Galgut
- Stories to get you through the Night – Vintage Classics
- Snow Drops – A.D.Miller
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Should I have been a mathematician?
Many, many years ago I noticed that the square of a number consisting of all sixes had a particular pattern.
With pretensions to be a mathematician I set out to prove why this was so! Every ten years or so I would re-visit the previous solution and attempt to improve on it. Now I have decided to publish it on my blog, for posterity.
If you understand it, comments are welcome. See image files below or a PDF file here
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Day 5 – last day in Bergen
A morning of walking around the centre and up the windy streets to a viewpoint. Then off to the airport for the return home. We got on the wrong bus – there are two airport bus services and we picked the wrong one for our return ticket! The driver was typically Norwegian – ie pleasant and helpful, and allowed us to ride on his bus anyway.
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Day 4 – Bergen Botanical Garden
We had an unsuccessful visit to the botanical garden! An hour’s bus ride out of Bergen, we soon discovered the garden was pretty remote and that there were NO eating / drinking facilities, and we had no food! So we ambled for an hour and then set off back to Bergen. A reasonably pleasant way to while away the time, but a bit of a disappointment. More walking around the north bay on our return. In the evening we had seafood pasta (including lobster) at a little Italian restaurant (Leone Di Mare) which was very nice.
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