Tonight it was announced that Nelson Mandela has died. I remember him being freed, although it didn’t mean a lot to a white 7 year old in a country that appeared to that 7 year old not to be all that fussed about what colour skin you had. I only really became aware of his […]
154 years ago today, a ground breaking document was published in this country. A scientific work which instantly sold out. I am, of course, referring to On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin. Darwin had spent five years aboard HMS Beagle in the 1830s touring the Galapagos Islands and New Zealand, […]
Fifty years after his death, people are remembering where they were when it all happened. I was minus twenty and therefore have no clue. All over the radio – because that’s my main source of news as I travel from work to a geocache – there were people who were there, or were children at […]
Today was filled with work and a race. The race was terribly dull with the only action being a battle for 8th and Alonso suffering a 25G impact by going over a kerb at speed… Vettel’s dominance is good to watch, and it’s good to see a car romp home 30 seconds ahead of second […]
I have no clue where today has gone. Done a lot of things, seen a lot of people, but not actually made much progress on significant things. The geocache we found today was in a lovely location. The sun setting over a small lake/pond thing in Bradford. Which is a shame really, as that means […]
The first day back at work was lovely in many ways. The morning with Year 6 worked very well, with lots going on and I can already see the potential for great things to happen over the next seven weeks. The afternoon with Year 5 was a different feel – I could certainly see that […]
Not a very eventful day overall. I have learnt that there is a Salmon Act in force in this country (from 1986) which prevents the handling of salmon suspiciously. Section 32 of the act describes the sanctions and potential offences… Anyway, this got me thinking about other unnecessary laws. It is illegal to enter the Houses of […]
On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell finally got his invention working: the telephone. It worked nothing like our phones today: the very first phones were sold in pairs, where each phone could call only that one other phone (you had to pick that other person carefully). Then came the “switchboard,” which let you […]
Not much on the agenda today. We did a cache, of course, by Morley ASDA (GC43PZY) – but our efforts to fill our calendar can’t possibly be completed this year after missing Thursday. The snow that evening made caching difficult then, and the rush to get to band made it even harder! Still, we are […]
This fabulous infographic shows the trends on Twitter for the first 10 days of the games.