July 2006
glove
esther spotted this in the undergrowth. can you see it ?
game over
i’ve already captured the dog sign, so let’s concentrate on the bottom one which summarises england’s football position.
esther saw that lots of houses still have their England flags up a day later, and she suggested that the owners probably hadn’t heard the result yet.
wedding registry table
i saw this at the back of a church we recently visited and i was quite intrigued. it’s the equipment on the table where a married couple have to ‘sign the register’.
although it looks very traditional, it has been updated slightly – the ink wells have been replaced by the Oxfam freebie pen, and the date card thing is now replaced by an ancient casio watch.
that’s progress for ya
take the skin heads bowling
ok – i’m the only baldy in the picture and it wasn’t real bowling, but yesterday we went round to esther and kezia’s prayer-parents for a barbyqueue (i know i spelt that wrong). In attendance were jon and andrew from pure reason revolution who challenged me to a game of petanque. which i lost (after a good start)
spicey nights
a great shop name and logo.
thames path – part 5 castle eaton to Inglesham
every time we walk a part of the thames path we get extreme weather conditions: our first walk was in sub zero windy conditions, and our most recent trip was in a torrential downpour for most of the walk.
yesterday we had extreme heat, with the temperature probably around 30 degrees and much allegies (hayfever and skin rashes) had by all.
the red lion at castle eaton backs on to the Thames and is very lovely. you should go.
this part of the walk felt like a bit of a swizz as we only briefly saw the river thames for a few moments on the whole 6 mile trundle. instead we spent much time walking down field edges and small farm tracks. lovely, but not the thames !
our inspiring end point – if you are interested in seeing where we were, you can have a look on google map here here
jammin’
we got stuck in a massive queue on the motorway yesterday heading for the Thames Path.
interestingly they had some fancy signs up showing mathematical symbols. i asked jane about it and she said it was probably a formula for the queue length which i thought was inspired.
so what is ‘pi’ multiplied by ‘ l’ ? pi is obviously this, but what is the symbol ‘l’ representing in this formula ?
i wondered if the formula was a way of calculating the time (in minutes) it will take to get through the queue: ie it’s 3.14 times the length (‘l’) of the queue in miles.
that would be about right as the queue was about 10 miles long and it took us over half an hour to get through it.
any other ideas ?
