On our way to visit Dad’s parents, we stopped to lunch on the A43 at the “Sign of the Purple Chicken“. The gents contained a most curious home-made sink which has apparently caused confusion for previous visitors and necessitated the creation of an entertaining piece of verse (see photo).
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Snow comes to Salisbury
It has snowed in Salisbury for the first time in four years and, predictably, there is complete chaos. No buses are running, schools and work are shut and so is practically everything else!
Useful websites
www.virustotal.com
Helsinki Trip – Day 2
For the second day of our trip Monika suggested that we visit the Finnish National Library. This was not a destination we would normally have selected, but it was really a very interesting and recently restored building. The first room you enter has a magnificent dome surrounding which are beautifully decorated arches. Through a door is a three storey reading room. In the central tower Monika found a heavy read… …but Sophia found something rather lighter. Whilst Marina went back
Helsinki Trip – Day 1
Today we visited the Helsinki Science centre “Heureka” with Monika and Olivia. The science education value of this section was unclear, but it contained some fun activities. The first event on the list was curling, and here Olivia shows us her technique. Whilst Monica had a go at the sweeping task. Note that there was no actual ice and the stones ran on casters of some sort so the sweeping activity didn’t seem to make any difference. The next event
2011 Trip – Day 4
Distance Average Speed Max Speed 30.4 km 9.1 km/h 24.4 km/h In the morning I saw an animal walking across the lake. I speculated that it might be a fox and Timo later confirmed that this was the most likely. I managed to leave Kÿlkeinen by 0930, but attempts to go South across Hämeenvaara proved impossible. Eventually I returned to the kennels and dumped my bag. I then headed to Jänisvaara for lunch and at about 1500 drove North to