We went to visit Jax’s parents yesterday. Her stepfather has just been into hospital for some maintenance and repair so we were doing “visiting”. Big is rapidly catching up on grandma, shoe sizes nearly the same, etc. So we are eagerly anticipating cast offs….. next year MP camp, expect to see an eight year old, […]
Steaming
On Thursday, I took Lily, Big and Small for a day on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Ever since we went there last year Big has been begging to be taken again, Lily was home from university, so we picked her up on the way through Halifax. We parked at Oxenhope and took the […]
Wikipedia Meme (Big)
Big (16th January) 3 Events 1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. 2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia‘s new president. She becomes Africa‘s first female elected head of state. 2007 – Tri-Centenary of the United Kingdom. (1707 – The Scottish Parliament, ratified the Act of Union, paving way for […]
Wikipedia Meme (Small)
Small (29th May) 3 Events 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s 39th birthday. 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match. 1660 […]
Wikipedia Meme – Your Birthday
Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday month and day only. (originally seen at Atypical Homeschool – defunct in 2024) Mine (27th May) 3 Events 1257 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.[3] 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to […]
The Trisha Goddard Show
Comes on immediately after the children’s programming on 5. So this morning I find Big in tv trance watching it. Frankly, I’d rather she watched porn.
My Maps
Just been playing with Google’s new My Maps feature. I have been contributing, sporadically to the Geograph project (photos of every map square in the UK). Now I have a Google Map of my Geographs. The Google map is more gratifying than the maps on Geograph, there you get to see just how few of […]
A History of Nowhere
Richard Newbury writing in La Stampa.…. “For the report of the authoritative History Association on the teaching of history in English Schools there is a problem that some important parts of the curriculum in English, European and World History are being ignored because the facts are being denied or have become highly selective.” ….
New Global Order
“When the centre of gravity moves from one region to another, and another country becomes suddenly very powerful, what history teaches you is that conflict is inevitable. What we have to learn is that cooperation is essential,” Henry Kissinger Kissinger: U.S., China Can Form ‘New Global Order’
Park Life
An afternoon at the expensive, pay to go in adventure playground at Rother Valley Country Park. I say expensive, £4.75 for the pair for the afternoon isn’t too bad, I suppose, except that the other playgrounds are free, and one of them even has swings with a moat. Small appears to have little or no […]