Coombe Barton

Many years ago I visited when they were undertaking a mass basking shark/dolphin/whale/sea spotting. This was a time when basing shark visitations were more common than now. They said they had seen nowt.

Athelstan vowed to build a church at St Buryan if he evicted the vikings. He did and the remains of his church are incorporated into the north east of the existing building. And here's some of the story https://classic-sailing.com/article/the-isles-of-scilly-archipelago/#:~:text=In the mid-12th century,in Syllingar and plundered it.”

Take it you're in the lookout on the Cape? Kenidjack Castle is where I met, by chance, in 1999, Willie Alford, the traction engine owner of Truthwall who was walking his Jack Russell. He told me the story of the loss of sand in Porth Ledden due to failed tin ore extraction in the 1920s. Solved a lot of the mystery as that bay is where both Tristram escaped to Ireland and Athelstan launched his assault on the Vikings on the Isles of Scilly, and I couldn't;y see how on those rocks you'd be able to land boats.

For people visiting Japan, is this the style of hotel you stay in?

... tomorrow a series of linguistically direct emails to students who have yet to pass (That’s politically-correct-speak referring to those who have failed). ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/covid-the-rise-of-the-variant-jn-1-dont-believe-in-is-not-science-and-bmw-drivers-of-shopping-trolleys/

I've said that this is it - we've been down this route before, with me getting more vociferous each year that they hadn't recruited anyone suitable The last three years we've tried, but they all left (or maybe were pushed) after a few months. At the moment I'm not getting done the things I want to do.

... A hundred working days to go. Then it becomes someone else’s problem. However who that someone else is is not yet defined. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/covid-vaccinations-england-and-world-and-fighting-silence-100-days/

What other sorts are there? Please explain.

... Crêpes Suzette it wasn’t, but it was OK. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/13/covid-nothing-new-workshops-and-exam-boards-and-pancakes/

Up, breakfasted, ready for the shower and then for the dawn trek to the metropolis. With this cloud the sunrise wont be visibly chasing me. Four hours of workshops and then an exam board.

... there’s no inquiry sessions at the moment for politicos to prance at, so we’re spared that. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/covid-general-respiratory-infections-level-uploading-all-day/

Brtight and sunny - at least that's what woke me up. And the and appears to have dropped. However my enjoyment of it will be visual as I'm completing admin stuff ... and, unusually for me, getting stuff ready for teaching later in the term. Fortunately it's all written and only needs updating for dates and some sample data as I use current up to date data when I can. in teaching I really don't see the point of using numerically massaged examples and then expect students to tackle real world problems - subtleties are easier to recognise when presented early. I dod have one colleague some time ago who used examples of 0% return on savings, which gave students a really false picture, although mathematically correct it just didn't reflect the real world and them at all.

That p155es me off as well. Apple pages doesn't.

How do you know he's not just going to streak in Tesco? Apart from the knee supports, of course.

... now to get them to do something about passing their resits, which involves a range of assistance and me saying, probably several hundred times “Just get on with it!” ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/covid-and-flu-by-age-finalising-the-marking-starting-the-resits-and-finding-some-floor/

Thank you for the memory - NOT!!!

The serpent right hand grip looked uncomfortable

And with their backs to each other

... for the music, describing the selection of instruments as ‘eclectic’ would be apt. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/covid-ethnicity-still-on-the-marking-floods/

I find it easier to download a PDF version then I can search quickly rather than guessing where they've hidden the important stuff.

... All roads around a village about three miles away are flooded – drivers of electric cars may be unable to move. Fortunately for me it’s all to the west, and I’m not going anywhere. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/covid-nothing-new-but-measles-up-other-politics-in-the-news-finalising-pre-exam-board-checking/

But don't defrag an SSD drive

No local snow at all, just very heavy rain.

... In Sainsbury's tonight there was a family with a little girl of about four who seemed lovely, chattering happily away to her parents. Then at the checkout she started singing, at the top of her voice, "Jingle Bells". Everyone going out burst out laughing. We need more kids like her around. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/covid-both-flu-and-covid-decline-hs2-northern-phase-succession-planning/

... there was a fire in the Millennium Point multi-storey today, and it’s going to be closed tomorrow. And I have a nine o’clock. And it may snow ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/02/07/covid-ppe-hs2-elephant-is-now-a-shade-lighter-and-more-disruption/