Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Unchained melody
Piece of work on loan to the University of Sussex. It won a Silver Flora at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2006 and is really picked out by the bright sunlight yesterday. 
Monday, 13 July 2009
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Notes
Some famous Shakespearean bits that aren't famous enough: I hope this helps anyone who might be considering the Humanities.
Note on the last posting. It's well know that there is a relationship between genius and the dark beverage from Dublin. In fact they ran an advertising campaign to that effect - Pure Genius. Less well known is the relationship between Guinness and the work of The Bard. Eagle-eyed readers might question how he managed to get hold of any, having been around a few years before the first natural Guinness springs were discovered on the banks of the Liffy but let not that stand in thy way paltroon!"As you like it?" - The proper stuff not that metric ice cold gear"Is this a dagger I see before me?" No it's a pint of beer, neck it lad"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" - Guinness and blackcurrant
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Is this a dagger I see before me?
Hark! What light in yonder window breaks? It is the East Slope bar!
Friday, 10 July 2009
For those about to rock.........
Heading off for resi school soon. Students start arriving tomorrow lunchtime by which we'll have had meetings and briefings and wandered the campus putting up signs and checking wheelchair access and all the other things that happen underneath to make the swan swim serenley on.
So in the immortal words of AC/DC; For those about to rock - we salute you!
"You used to be so amused....."
Just has to deal with my first comment spam in ages. It was on a posting from 2005 which dealt with some Dylan-related musings. Now I've got this song going through my head; not a bad way to start the day :-)
So how does it feel? How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown...........
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
The Ship Inn
I took some photos while wandering round Maidstone today. Most are pubs and the route is mainly the length of Upper and Lower Stone Street, Gabriel's Hill and the High Street. If anyone wishes to see the architectural majesty of the county town of Kent hit the Flickr set (it also includes three older shots).
Monday, 6 July 2009
Branches
Under the yew tree in Loose graveyard. Church House in the background. Took this a few weeks ago and tonight found out that someone famous is in this graveyard; the Reverend Richard Boys was chaplain of St Helena when Napoleon was there.
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Tea
Tea
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You've got to love digital communications - this one was sent at the time shown on the image!
You've got to love digital communications - this one was sent at the time shown on the image!
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Lovely day
Lovely day
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I sent this when I took it - 11:50 on 01/07, it seems that some Moby Pictures go through a black hole or a tear in the space-time continuum before being delivered.
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I sent this when I took it - 11:50 on 01/07, it seems that some Moby Pictures go through a black hole or a tear in the space-time continuum before being delivered.
Leaning into the Light: The Open University 40th Anniversary Lecture
"Lord Puttnam, Chancellor of The Open University, marks the 40th anniversary of the institution in this special birthday lecture, delivered on Monday 20th April 2009 at The Open University, Milton Keynes. He addresses the challenges facing the world of education as we pursue the digital revolution in face of the credit crunch and the threat of ecological disaster."
Coupling
These guys drove the train - you have to admire the beard. Check out the full size version on Flickr
Friday, 3 July 2009
Last of the summer beer
For those who have seen the tweets about beer and the photos I thought I'd just explain what it's all about.
Paul, Phil and I worked together 20 years ago, at that time we were auditors with Berni Inns. For the last few years we've got together to watch some cricket. We've visited Canterbury, Scarborough and Horsham in the past - Phil and Paul are cricket fans and have been doing this for far longer but I muscled in to lower the tone. The venue is planned at the start of the year when the fixture list is released; we aim for somewhere pretty with decent beer and we've now added the "Third Day Trip". The only fixed part of the format is that we park on arrival and don't use our cars until it's time to leave and that determines how far from the ground we can stay. The "Third Day Trip" started last year when we jumped on a train and visited Bognor and Arundel and this year we went to Minehead.
Minehead was a great deal nicer than Bognor and my favourite pub of the week is The Queen's Head in Minehead.
Best pint is a harder call because there are so many to chose from but I think it's the Nutcracker from Cotleigh, a local brewer. We enjoyed that in the Castle Green in Taunton.
Best meal (not too many to pick from) was fish, chips and mushy peas in a lovely place in Minehead.
The service on the West Somerset Railway is nothing short of excellent and I can't remember the last time I went anywhere with such happy and welcoming staff (many are volunteers). Well worth a visit and some lovely countryside on the journey.
If anyone wants to see the rest of the photos they are on Flickr.
Next year? Well we're going to see where Lancashire might play any away games but that's not big deal - I'm sure we'll find something to do wherever we end up.
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Note
Just a brief note about photos. If they are sent using Moby Pictures they seem to take an age to arrive here - some never do. If the time looks skewed check the timestamp on the picture (if the photo was taken with the phone). I recognise that the number of people who are interested in that is terribly low but I want to make sure that we've got this stuff right :-)
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Not a bad way to spend time
Pimms made with cloudy lemonade so it looks like beer. The book is bobbins; formulaic with two-dimensional characters. I don't care if any of the main protagonists are washed away in a freak storm.
DNA
"Okay. You've got an elephant and a whale and the dealer has to stick - want another card?"
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
More iSpotting
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And this is the link to iSpot which is a jolly useful web resource - check it out and bookmark it.
Every one has a silver lining
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The eagle-eyed will spot that the time stamp shows this to be well after the campus shots. The more eagler-eyed might recognise that it's the view from the Chinese take-away in Coxheath. Them be proper Kentish clouds.
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