• Partido de Tenis

    Partido de Tenis

    This creases me up!
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  • Fireworks out the window

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  • Wells-Next-The-Sea

    A busy month – two funerals, flu and covid jabs, dentist and optician appointments, a car breakdown followed by scrapping and replacing the car. For a change of scenery we made a last-minute decision to visit the Norfolk town of Wells-Next-The-Sea. We always planned to travel there by public transport which took over 6 hours, involving a train, tube, two more trains and a bus!

    A Monday to Friday stay in a rented house gave us three full days to explore and get in a couple of decent length walks. Wells-Next-The-Sea is a charming fishing and holiday town with magnificent sands (when the tide is out).

    We managed long walks on two of the three days. The first day was sunny as we walked westwards from Wells to Holkham, catching a bus back to Wells. The second day was extremely windy and we caught the bus to Blakeney, walking eastwards to Cley before catching the bus back.

    On the third day it rained but we were still able to revisit the magnificent sandy beach.

    Fish and chips in the evening!

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  • Kites with the kids

    Kites with the kids

    A great time with the kites and the little ones.
    Kite flying is such fun for both kids and adults.

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  • GPS – how odd!

    GPS – how odd!

    Tracking my activity (walk) into the village, my iPhone’s GPS put me in some odd locations.

    The red block is where I shopped in Waitrose – I never went to the left as would be suggested by GPS. The red circle is where I stopped to make a longish phone call.

    All very odd, though perhaps explained by the accuracy of GPS, the strength of the GPS signal and the quality of my iPhone’s GPS receiver,

    Update: I came across the following at Why-is-GPS-data-sometimes-inaccurate

    When signals from the GPS satellites bounce off buildings, the GPS receiver can be confused by the extra time the signal took to reach it. In these cases, you may observe sudden large errors in position. There is not much that can be done to reduce the effects of multipath errors – GPS is simply less accurate in canyons, whether they are made of buildings or natural formations.

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  • Sutton 1 Salford 2

    Sutton 1 Salford 2

    A disappointing result after a fascinatingly competitive match for the first hour. Sutton took a deserved lead in the 62nd minute but ruined their prospects with a player being red-carded 5 minutes later. Hanging on lasted until two goals from Salford, 10 and 3 minutes from full-time, ruined the party – it seemed inevitable with a one man advantage.

    Sutton nearly nicked a point in the last minute of extra-time, but it wasn’t to be. Disappointing!

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  • Guildford Cathedral & Dapdune Wharf

    A trip by train to the underwhelming Guildford Cathedral and five books from the wonderful pre-loved bookshop at the National Trust’s Dapdune Wharf.

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  • Shot on a walk

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  • Sutton v Hartlepool

    For 15 minutes Sutton were lively, but for the rest of the first half they seemed to lose the plot.
    A cup of tea at halftime must have done the trick and they put away two goals for a deserved win.
    I am enjoying watching them play!

    Sutton 2 – 0 Hartlepool

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  • Saturday’s Times crossword

    It’s been a while since I / we completed one.

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