Photography, Books, Arts and Sports
I couldn’t help noticing that “Putneysw15” web site published in December a list of predicted dates and times when there will be “exceptional high tides” at Putney bridge. They showed the data from the Port… Read More »Putney Tides – predictions for 2014
Trying to grow a beard might seem easy: you just let it do that, grow… However, I am just realising there is more to meet the eye, or the beard as it were. I have… Read More »Beard
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in… Read More »2013 in review
Source: BBC News Magazine What were the most significant numbers of 2013? Several experts name their favourites, and explain why. David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge University: My number of the year is 7.3. This is the average response… Read More »The numbers of the year 2013
Indeed my dear readers, as you well know the end of the year is looming. A time to reflect about the last 12 months and the things that happened during that time… and what a… Read More »100 things we didn’t know last year
Great poster for the Marriott London Sevens Rugby, I particularly like the tentacles cheering up. Well done!
The Way of All Flesh by Adam Curtis: a one-hour BBC documentary on Henrietta Lacks and HeLa directed by Adam Curtis. It won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival.… Read More »The Way of All Flesh
It is true, it has been 10 long years since England won the Rugby World Cup against Australia. The memories may be good and the celebrations of the ten year anniversary are in full swing:… Read More »England Rugby World Cup – 10 years…
