We took a walk around the area called Gnosall Acres, where some development money has been spent putting in a board walk of recycled rubber across a marshy area. It made a pleasant change and a relaxed way to walk up to the shops in Gnosall, though we only managed to see one wren by way of wildlife.
After drawing cash from the Post Office and doing a bit more shopping in the Co-op, we called in at the butcher in Gnosall Heath and bought some pork chops for tomorrow night.
And that's been about it for today; the weather is rather grey and cold, but forecast to improve as the week goes on. Sheila looked up the answers to the stuff we couldn't get in Saturday's giant crossword and bought this month's Kindle book as we can't be sure of a decent internet connection at Norbury.
When I've done this, Sheila will give my hair a trim.
It's exciting stuff; if it's too much, let me recommend the world's oldest still-running experiment, a study of the flow characteristics of pitch they've had going at the University of Queensland since 1927. In all that time, the pitch sitting in a funnel suspended over a beaker has dripped eight times. A ninth is confidently expected sometime this year. There's a webcam focussed on it, so if watching paint dry is your thing, try this…
/wahaha
2 comments:
......and you found this experiment how??
Nev
There was a piece about it on the Today programme, would you believe. They interviewed the prof; John Humphrys described Justin Webb's final question "And what can we learn from observing this drip?" as one of the most profound ever asked on Today.
ATB
Bruce
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