Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Squeaking into Basingstoke

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At 12.30 p.m. under the leaden skies of a decaying anticyclone I squealed into Basingstoke. For the first ten miles on the A303 from Andover...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The 'difficult' second viewing

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Our house has now been on the market for just over two weeks, and this afternoon the fourth group to view are coming back for a second look....

Elaine and my mother at the seaside

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Last week my sister Elaine took my mother down to Torquay for a few days. They caught the best of the fine weather and here are some photos....
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Quaker Town and Star Wars

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Clare never met a nuclear weapon she liked so back in 1983, soon after we moved to Saffron Walden she joined the local CND. This was just af...
Friday, September 25, 2009

House sale update - "He's much to blame"

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We've been on the market a couple of weeks so far and we've had four viewings but no offers. V1 liked the house but their own had on...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

The new HIV vaccine:- some stats

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From the BBC website : -- 8,198 people took the placebo and 74 were infected with HIV during the trial. -- 8,197 people took the vaccine and...

River of Gods: supersymmetry

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Just finished a couple of books linked in a curious way. 1. River of Gods - Ian McDonald I came to this after reading Brasyl . McDonald is ...
Monday, September 21, 2009

How many multiverses?

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Just up the road from us in Oxford there's an invitation-only workshop going on as I write this. It's about cosmology and the multiv...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Review: 500 days of Summer

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This was our biggest demographic car-crash since we went to see Crossroads , a vehicle for Britney Spears (remember her?) where the rest of...

The roman glassblowers of Andover

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These are two archaeologists who have learned to blow glassware the Roman way. They work out of Unit 1 Project Workshops, Lains Farm, Quarle...