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Our kids have at last reached the age where playing board games is at more fun than just hard work. Biggest hit at the moment is Cluedo (more on this soon) but Lucy half-remembered a board game from her childhood called "Don't Miss The Boat" which was a Morgan family favourite.
Southwold's pier has been recently refurbished and now bosts a water clock and arcade with machines made by Tim Hunkin.
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Just back following a cracking weekend away on the Suffolk coast.
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In this bonkers ambulance chasing blame culture we now inhabit it seems like we've lost whatever ability we may have had to correctly evaluate risk.
Take for example how Bury St Edmonds Council have Banned Hanging Baskets because they might fall on someone's head. Might being the operative word given ROSPA haven't recorded a single case of this happening in the past 40 years. It's the same state of mind which leads to people buying national lottery tickets, worry about rail safety and yet smoke or drive quickly past school gates.
Anyone who has been through an illness or pregnancy will likely been asked to make difficult decisions based on odds, e.g. risk of various birth defects following a scan, risk of miscarriage following amniocentesis, etc.
Here's a simple technique to help in such circumstances. Given the odds 40-1:
Ignorance of chance can work to your advantage. In 1991 two former bookmakers travelled around the UK placing bets on there being a hole-in-one at golf tournaments. They received high odds making them a large amount of money before the betting industry realised that there are several hole-in-ones at most every event.
According to Jung Typology Test i am a mastermind or type iNTj. I'm not sure how to best make use of this valuable information. Maybe i should sprout a goatee and cultivate a deep and evil glare.
Willard Wigan makes sculptures that are so small you need a microscope just to see them. His works include a ship on a grain of sand, the Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle, a boxing match on a match head and an elephant on a pin-head. He uses slivers of diamond to carve grains of sand and has to work between the centre of each heartbeat to avoid hand tremors. Other hazards include dust and static electricity. There is a permanent exhibition of his work at The Mailbox in Birmingham.
According to yournotme the gramatically incorrect and advert infested web site there are 80 Paul Downeys on the UK electoral roll. So now you too can do a Dave Gorman.
According to President Match my views align with:
1 Kucinich 100%
2 Sharpton 100%
3 Kerry 90%
4 Clark 86%
5 Dean 85%
6 Edwards 78%
7 Bush 16%
1/6th in agreement with Bush! i feel unclean! Of course this might a lot more sense if i was American and eligible to vote.
The other weekend we all trouped off the Tate Modern to see the amazing "The Weather Project". This exhibit uses the whole of the turbine hall in the former power station with the entire ceiling mirrored making the otherwise empty space appear even larger.
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Last night at dinner Ruth outed the advice "never eat anything bigger that your head". I was unsure if B. Kliban had originated this phrase as it's the title of one of his books. This lead on to my trying, and failing, to describe one of his cartoons "Bigotry in Action":
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