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Sunday nice to see the james may (rather light) documentary on the moon landings, switching focus to a trip to the edge of space in the rather graceful lockheed u2.
Monday carol took the yamaha to work.
We went for a walk round the village circuit, taking a shortcut
through fields of poppies in the perfect mid summer evening
weather.
Tuesday last day at the old site, mostly
packing.
Took the yamaha for a refuel in the hot late afternoon sunshine.
Wednesday 1st day at the new ansty site.
Carol took the yamaha to work.
3x round the village circuit in the hot sunshine and wind 20 mins
47.
Cleaned the bike for the 1st time. Didn't really dry properly
before dark.
Thursday took the yamaha into work.
Still showing lots of dried water marks, but attracting lots of
interest.
Popped over to go outdoors to buy a tail pack after work.
A bit of a miserable ride back through rush hour traffic on 1 of
the hottest, humid days of the year so far, with the engine
getting hot when stationary and the cooling fan blowing hot air
onto me.
Had a go with the recommended mr sheen in the evening, and it
really seems to work well.
Friday the forecast heavy rain arrived,
just in time for glastonbury, but we're only watching it on tv this year.
It looked like the glastonbury weather was not too bad. Not much
missed on friday, but it would have been good to see more of vv brown in the john peel tent - very minimal coverage. Lady
gaga was remarkable, and actually
quite good. The ting
tings played well on the big stage
that they should have played last year, when we were unable to
get anywhere near, but this is 2 year old material now - time for
some new.
Saturday we went to london.
A bit late getting away, stopping to feed the pigeon, and held up
again along the westway. Off at baker street we went N for a
change, eaing at a cafe on the corner with marylebone road.
Decided to go to camden, crossing regent's park. Coffee
and cake at the garden cafe. Looked like several weddings taking
advantage of the well maintained gardens and exotic plants in the
hot sunshine.
Started to cloud over a bit by the time we got to camden. Seems
to have expanded a bit since we were last there, especially the
horse tunnels, stables area.
Long walk S with the thunder and rain starting. We wanted to get
a bus, but don't really know where they go. Eventually hit some
familiar roads at bloomsbury and turned W to join oxford street.
A rather miserable experience, in the high humdity, heat and
rain. Got something to eat from the busy sainsbury's local at
marble arch and waited for the bus at park lane.
The normal stop was coned off with special arrangements posted
due to events in the park, but that was supposed to be only after
21:00. Anyway, more than 30 mins before that we saw a bus drive
straight past. We tried to find the alternate stop in portman
street, but it wasn't obvious, and we saw another bus go by.
Eventually we found the correct place, and 1 of the others
waiting stepped out in front of the next bus and we headed home
rather late.
Sunday 3x circuit in the grey humidity 21
mins 47.
A bit of catching up with glastonbury.
Late afternoon we took the yamaha and kawasaki for a ride.
Yet more glastonbury - very extensive coverage on bbc2,3,4 but
still only scratching the surface of actually being there.
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comedy news quiz. |
| that mitchell and webb look | bbc2 | thursday | 21:30 | comedy. |
| newsnight review | bbc2 | friday | 23:00 | art. |
| broadcasting house | radio4 | sunday | 09:00 | a wry look at the week's events. |
now showing cinema
| showcase | showcase cinema at coventry walsgrave triangle |
| odeon | odeon cinema at coventry city centre |
| arts centre | arts centre cinema at university of warwick (in coventry ?) |
| film 2008 | bbc.co.uk/films/comingsoon/diary.shtml uk release dates for films and more |
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empireonline.co.uk uk release dates for films and more |
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darkhorizons.com early info, trailers and pictures from upcoming films |
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sfx.co.uk anything even vaguely sci fi |
coming soon general
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lhc the large
hadron collider comes on line. Either the higgs boson is
found, or the standard model
is trashed. Or just maybe it makes a mini black hole that
destroys the world. More delays takes it into 2009. 2008 september 10 (1st beam circulation, with collisions maybe summer 2009) |
coming 1 day maybe
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recumbent bike. I
would quite like to try 1 of these. Ridiculously
expensive at £1k+, so not any time soon. Looking at futurecycles.org, londonrecumbents.co.uk, bikefix and challenge. The fujin looks faourite at the moment. The new furai looks sensible, but has a large front wheel that is pushing the pedals high up. |
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new pc The laptop does most things very well, but it is not a games machine - required for tomb raider. |
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spektrum dx7 2.4GHz Tx and Rx. Spread spectrum digital technology (at last) available for radio control. I was waiting to see others enter the market, but the 1st futaba offerings seem rather poor (eg display size, number of channels) compared to the market leader spektrum sets. And the retrofit modules seem to miss the point of pairing individual aircraft to Tx settings. |
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1 day there will be media machine
that can do all the freeview digital stuff, play dvds,
cds etc., has a hard disk, is networked, and is silent. In a sense they are here now in the form of a windows media pc, but they are fabulousy expensive, especially the "silent" versions, that use massive, heavy passive cooling heatsinks. The digifusion fvrt100 does a great job of digital tv timeshift, but has no route to permanent storage. I upgraded it to 160GB from xtendedplay.co.uk. |
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MW44 gas turbine
engine from wrenturbines.co.uk. 190000 rpm 460g weight, 3kg thrust, about
the size of a 330ml coke can (length 150mm, diam 75mm). Still expensive at £1470. Only available complete. This makes sensibly sized jet model aircraft feasible. Very tempted by 1 of these, but it has a long way to go up the list of priorities. The kolibri is even smaller |
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