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This is something I have never really thought about, but it has cropped up twice in my life this week. The first time was when a friend and I were discussing it. We settled on the idea that it was the banks that enforced it through pressure on the government to ease workload for them. […]
Just so you know, the title is the answer to yesterday’s question. All was ok. Not great but ok. I have learnt that I need to think less and rely more on my instincts when teaching. That is a big step as I over-think pretty much everything. Most things. Still, plenty of good points came […]
Fifty days to go in this project. I’m still, I always be will be, surprised at how well this is going. It might not always be the most interesting thing to read, but it’s been written every day… Today a disaster occurred. The projector in my room failed. Now, there are rumblings in the education […]
You know the thing I was waiting for yesterday? I’m still waiting for it… annoying. As a result, I haven’t done half as much as I wanted, yet again. Still, a relaxing day is a good thing. We went out for lunch earlier, a quick carvery at the local place. Nice enough. The Canadian Grand […]
I had this post written in my head all day. I knew exactly what I was going to write. And then, the thing I was going to blog about didn’t – hasn’t – happened yet. Still, that solves tomorrow’s problem. Still, a productive day. Just not doing what I wanted or needed. I really shouldn’t […]
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Day 148 of my 365 project reminds me about heptagonal numbers. 148 is a good example of a heptagonal number because it fits two of the three heptagonal number categories: heptagonal numbers, centred heptagonal numbers and centred heptagonal primes. As you can see, these numbers make heptagons. The first few heptagonal numbers are 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, 81, 112, 148… and […]
I’ve done a fair bit today. Began with a list of jobs to get through and succeeded in all but 4 of them. As a result, I have nothing whatsoever to write about. I just want to point you in the direction of the Geocaching Statistics page which has appeared in the drop down menu. […]
I’ve blogged on this day before – not today, but 30th April – I remember that because it was this 2004 post about Roland Ratzenberger. He was the up coming F1 driver who died the day before Ayrton Senna did at Imola 19 years ago. This is the strange feeling. I remember that day so […]
Yet another strange day. I almost expected it in a way. This week is looking pretty unusual in itself, for many reasons. I’m only in school today and tomorrow, have a course on Wednesday and school is closed on Thursday and Friday – Thursday for polling no reason now that polling has been cancelled, and Friday has […]
The snow is still here. Hate it. I meant to post this picture yesterday, which is taken from the Kirklees Winter Twitter feed, a very useful account to follow in times like this. All kinds of grit news is shared. Anyway, this is on the road between Hopton and Grange Moor – one we travel […]