Sunday afternoon with the woofers, on the River Soar around Kegworth and Sutton Bonington. We leave the tiny car park due east of Kegworth on the far side of the eighteenth century bridge over the Soar. We have to cross … Read More »
Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she deemed the first sign of civilization in a culture. Fish hooks? Pottery? Flint spear heads? No. Mead replied that the earliest discovered sign of civilization was a femur which had been broken … Read More »
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[ezcol_1half]Half Column[/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Half Column[/ezcol_1half_end] [ezcol_1half] Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 1 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 2 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 3 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 4 Roddis v Sheffield Hallam Part 5 [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Roddis v Sheffield … Read More »
Thanks again to Dave Hansell for this. Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton named the effect after his friend, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Crichton describes it thus: You open a newspaper to an article on a subject you … Read More »
My route yesterday, the loop taken anti-clockwise Not my normal route. Usually I walk from steel city house by way of Attenborough Cricket Club. Instead I took the Skylink to Chilwell Retail Park, then hiked down the lane to the … Read More »
[ezcol_1half] Seen today. ‘AOC’ is left Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bill Gates is, well, Bill Gates. I’m no fan of Bill, and not best qualified to say whether cows or cars are the greater emitters of greenhouse gases. (I’m told that … Read More »
Seen just now on Facebook. It came with the caption: Please don’t allow yourself to become the person on the left. To be fair, we don’t know Mr Left’s side of the story. Maybe Mr Right murdered Mr Left’s … Read More »
On Saturday an old friend visited for the first time. She had with her the youngest grandson, thirteen and a promising photographer. No guest at steel city house escapes the mandatory safari in Attenborough. The best of the light came … Read More »