I am starting to write this on the last day of January. The en-suite is nearly finished, we are having the carpet fitted on Thursday along with new carpets in the bedroom and guest bedroom.
The weather in January has been unseasonably warm, but not as warm as this day last year when we were in Mossel Bay, South Africa. We have managed to get out and about especially when the sun was shining. Here we are at Hengistbury Head. Five coastguard cars passed us on the way to the top of the cliff. They were obviously in training because there was no rush.
| Is this rope strong enough? | No! |
| Overlooking Mudeford Spit | Beach huts now have solar panels |
| Maya and Norman here for dinner. Norman and I were at Loughborough Colleges together ** years ago |
In mid January I noticed on the Geocaching website that a group of 9 geocaches had just been put out. We set off on the Sunday afternoon to do them. They were along a bridle path out in the country. On arrival it looked as though quite a few geocachers had the same idea, by the number of cars parked. It was good to meet up with the cachers because I recognised their names from the website, but had not met them before. We completed all 9 caches.
| Sue with two other geocachers we met coming in the other direction. |
Recently Sue and I went to an afternoon talk by Nick R Thomas who has been a contributor to BBC Radio Light Entertainment, local radio, fringe theatre etc. He was very funny and entertained everyone – at least no one walked out.
Here are some of his one liners (maybe two) – unintentional funny adverts:
‘Taste the unique flavour of the Thames with our catamaran cruises’.
‘Men’s slippers – BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE!
Maximum 2 per customer’.
‘Researching the book, he interviewed more than 100 people and 40 barristers’.
‘Mr William Hague took up judo after returning from his honeymoon’.
‘Hospitals in West Surrey say that from now on, all their NHS vasectomies will be axed’. Ouch!
One of the ramblers volunteers to help out on Archaeological Sites around the New Forest. She alerted me to a LIDAR exhibition in Lyndhurst. What’s LIDAR?
LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging is an optical remote sensing technology analogous to Radar. The range (distance) to an object is determined by measuring the time delay between transmission of a pulse and detection of the reflected signal.
OK now you know – more info here http://www.lidar.co.uk/
Although there wasn’t much on display it was quite interesting seeing some of the results both using LIDAR.
| Aerial Photograph | Coloured according to slope steepness and direction |
1858 – the first aerial photograph
| Oldie Photos: 1991 Taken on the evening of Geoff Harrison’s (Headteacher) dining out. Peter Morgan (chauffeur) drives the Harrisons from Dortmund to Soest |
| Peter and the main transport - his Trabant | Sue, Peter and Stuart at Soest |
Public Service Announcement – from an email circular – thanks DW
PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.
For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.
The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcast on TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
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