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Chess v bot Elani (game 1)
I’ve gone back to playing a chess bot rated as ‘beginner’. Bot “Elani” certainly played some rather questionable moves, but overall it was a fun game and I came out with a relatively easy win.
It’s nice to play against an opponent where I have a chance of winning. I’ll give “Elani” at least one more game, but if ‘she’ doesn’t give a good game I may have to return to playing an intermediate level bot.
And the winning position is…..
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Sutton 1 Forest Green 1
A tough game against top of the table Forest Green was only to be expected. Sutton had the edge in the first half and scored the opening goal. At the beginning of the second half it was almost as if there were two different teams on the pitch, and Forest Green scored after a dominating spell. It wasn’t looking good for the home team. A 90-second exciting spell for Sutton saw three goal-line saves, but as the game petered out, both sides were probably satisfied with the draw.
Sutton 1 Forest Green 1
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Along the Hogsmill River
On a lovely sunny day, today’s walk took me through Nonsuch Park, into Ewell Village and then along the muddy path by the Hogsmill River. Three hours walking, with no sustenance, I was glad to get home to lunch.
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The orange birthday present
The family were at a pub for my wife’s birthday. I mentioned this to the waitress when we ordered our puddings, and when they came out so did a candle with two waitresses singing ‘Happy Birthday’. And then we all started singing, and then also the diners in our section, much to my wife’s embarrassment! A few minutes later one of the diners came over to our table and gave my wife this orange thingy he’d made using a 3D printer. He was a very chatty guy, a Geordie. I got the impression he occasionally gave these away.
The video on the right shows you how complex an object can be manufactured using 3D printers.
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The big city in the distance
A sunny morning and a routine 5 mile hike to the coffee and KitKat café resulted in just this image of London, some 13 miles or so in the distance.
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Painting hikers
It’s been at least a couple of months since I last did any painting. I’m not getting any better. C’est la vie!
You can see my artistic non-development at https://thingschange.blog/not-an-artist/
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Morden Hall Park
Morden Hall Park, owned by the National Trust, offers a pleasant, park walk, and on a sunny morning I managed to take a few decent photos. The second-hand bookshop is large, though I couldn’t find much of interest other than a single science paperback.
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Great Pubs of London
Five years ago I bought a coffee-table book, “Great Pubs of London” by George Dailey. It has wonderful pictures and the history of twenty historic London pubs. I set myself a not very serious project to visit them all, but I got nowhere. I’ve just been to one of them – The George, in Borough High Street – and it’s prompted me to resurrect the project. In the absence of a map in the book (apparently corrected in a later edition), here is an interactive one I’ve constructed in Google Maps.
On the BBC website there’s a great article about George Dailey’s book with some terrific pictures.
And here is a list of the pubs and a map of their general location
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Pub lunch in London
A pub lunch in the historic George Inn on London’s Borough High Street was the excuse for a rare visit into London. The food was excellent pub-grub. A walk along the Thames to Waterloo helped to work off the beer, steak & ale pie and chips.
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Hampton Court – Kingston
A walk along the river from Hampton Court to Kingston and then back through Bushy Park. Trainers hanging from a tree near the skateboard ramps – what’s that all about?
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