Category: Geography

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STONEHENGE

Many a true word said in jest! For many years I took sixth form students to Pembroke and part of the weeks entertainment was a river study on the Preseli Mts. where the bluestones for Stonehenge come from. I regularly joked that Stonehenge was originally sited there and the English whilst on holiday rather took a fancy to it and nicked it! Apparently this is now an accepted theory (well the bit about it being originally constructed there.!! Guardian article

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WEEKLY COVID STATS

A bit better


27.095.1119.115.1222.12
2.17.114.121.1284.2
N.Som31177304142153188256372411368239173
Cornw204790256679173324351258176157
Bristol46350480168153166217408491434306258
Chelmsf41911501095977518781058905573328247
Exeter28312816810211714414722629224412661
Braintre42581091045827099101160890552406303
Ply301502256392107219221295327208118
IoW10417829711102539161093647382226
Liverp516330276971381712426111048809516348
Manch
466372175173196208351483443329297
Sunderl274309412161155176267514274426326327
Newcas445284449156152139147235285284226174
Swanse
39723136874769640043127920211487
Cardiff
301156247678684460470362282168122
Glasgo
286275147146151194318400325258207
Aberdee
41586115817417127928423614880
Belfast
317213109140150225504486284229175
Newry
199118113244236256756808447306210
Sandf



82106201320320189226248
W.Bod



06262287788437387337
Lostwith



5599.8190308399381349417

All lower apart from Sandford and Lostwithiel! But apart from Aberdeen, Swansea and Exeter not getting low enough. On the 5 November lockdown 2 was announced – lots of areas still way above the level then.

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DESKS

Some quotes: I guess you can see where my sympathies lie.

A tidy desk is a tidy mind.

A tidy desk is a sick mind.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind – what is an empty desk a sign of?

My room isn’t untidy, it is an obstacle course designed to keep me fit.

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TRUMP AND TWITTER

I just read on Facebook an interesting comment about the role of a company to act as a censor. In this case I think it is clear that Trump overstepped the mark by some distance. A more interesting debate is whether this censorship should have been instigated some time in the past.

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My front garden

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!  Whilst many see a front lawn with straight parallel lines as a thing of wonder and order, I see it as a green desert, an insult to the diversity of nature.  Uniform type of grass often sprayed with herbicides and fertilisers.  To further insult the planet it needs to be cut every 2 weeks at least.  I am not sure that there are many more boring and energy wasting activities than mowing a lawn using electricity or petrol.  I wonder what the fossil fuel energy use is in this country.

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Wind trivia

Just get this bit out of the way – Farts

The Helm Wind (the only named wind in the UK) is a strong north-easterly wind hitting the southwest slopes of Cross Fell in Cumbria. When a wind blows at a constant speed and direction through a layer of stable air perpendicular to the ridge or peak of hills and mountains, the result is something called a lee wave.

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