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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
Thursday 26 Nov The joy of specs: Your eyeballs don’t freeze while cycling to work when it’s 5°C. No specs please, we’re British: On the other hand, if it’s raining—as it often does—then windscreen wipers would be a useful accessory. Gone … for now: Very late (well, early Friday morning) I finally submitted one of the papers that I […] After a very mild fortnight, where the daily maximum has been around 13°C, the weather has started to cool down and deliver the wintry chill that I was expecting. I think there might be a frost tonight, and I have been rugged up in scarf, beanie, gloves, and windproof coat for the cycle trips to and […] Saturday 21 Nov (part 2) Having “done” Greenwich (including a “bacon butty” for lunch), I then headed down to the river and caught a ferry back up the Thames towards Waterloo. We passed such landmarks as Tower Bridge and the Tower of London with the Gherkin behind it (the Gherkin is a rather distinctive office tower you […] Saturday 21 Nov (part 1) Since one of the main distractions in my life involves electronic navigation and degrees of latitude and longitude (oh, and plastic boxes, but they’re just to provide additional motivation) it was only natural to make a pilgrimage to Greenwich. Imagine my surprise, therefore, to discover, that I hit the magical E 000° 00.000 […] Tuesday 17 – Thursday 19 Nov Tuesday morning dawned gloriously, so I took advantage of the good weather to go for a walk in Christ Church Meadow, which runs south of Merton College and Christ Church (cathedral and college). It has been a very mild autumn so far, with an atypical absence of fogs and frosts (the […] Pruning saw. That’s a […] Saturday 14 Nov Yep, this is the 100th post, apparently. So, what to do to celebrate? Sleep in. No. Friday 13 Nov This evening was a bit of a treat, as I attended a concert at the Sheldonian Theatre (pictured at right in daylight). For your architectural edification, the Sheldonian was designed by Christopher Wren and is used for university graduations. One half is semicircular and the other is a rectangle, and it has a painted […] Thursday 12 Nov A day that started off being lovely and sunny, but when I allowed myself to escape around lunchtime to do an errand, some sightseeing, and a cache or two, the weather started to deteriorate, and by mid-afternoon it was pouring. I got quite excited in the late afternoon because I […] Wed 11 Nov The day began early as I joined Anne and John in heading down to Southampton (or thereabouts) where they were running a morning of professional development (the PD of the title) for primary teachers from Hampshire. There were many aspects of this that were identical to Australian PD sessions with which I have been involved: […] |
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