Look closely, I'm on the platform waving. Dave Andrews took this from the aquaduct.

The publisher of Taft 2012 sent me a free review copy. It's the first time that's happened to me. They must have seen other book reviews here on my blog.

I've been boasting to my friends about this literary honour, but now the time has come to actually write the …

I read about persistence hunting a few months ago:

humans likely practiced persistence hunting, chasing a game animal during the heat of the day, making it run faster than it could maintain, tracking and flushing it if it tried to rest, and repeating the process until the animal literally overheated …

This is the box with all my old physics stuff in. A lot of wonderful books that I never properly understood. I wish I could spend some more time understanding it. I wasn't very good at physics, but could understand enough to find it interesting.

Looking back over the folder …

Here's another photo of the skip, taken on 20th of July. I've contacted the BANES Council about it, but they've said they can't do anything about it because it's on private land. I've asked them about planning permission, as it's permanently there. I'll let you know their reply.

Thought it was time to chuck this old thing out. Probably dates back to Roger's day.

When I moved to Bath I tried for ages to get TalkTalk to transfer their broadband to the new house. They were terrible, and just couldn't do it, so I moved to BT, who were excellent. Bill recently asked how much BT costs. I'm with the 10 GB per month …

I was walking along the pavement, and someone was wheeling a bicycle in the opposite direction. I stepped onto the road so that we could pass, and he thanked me.

I wondered if he had applied Kant's test that if everybody rode bikes to work, would things work out okay …

Moving on to the next box. Here was the stuff I had to deal with:

I called it Deep Storage. It is all a bit embarrassing. Those black plastic rings used to be on the end of the cylindrical spotlights that used to be in my bedroom at Deverell Close …

I've just done a Belbin assessment. Six people that I chose had to tick words that they associated with me:

Put into the Belbin roles and charted, they look like this: