Hi if anyone's out there - so much has happened, where do I start? Well you can read all about the main event of the season - Clare and Tom's wedding - on Clare's blog www.clareisabella.blogspot.com with a few pics. Suffice it to say it went fabulously well; hardly a dry eye in the house. I was so proud! Happy couple just back from honeymoon (at Bob and Isabel's beautiful house in St. Mawes) and overcome with a vast mountain of wedding presents to fit into their car!
Music: Me and my three girls put on a little show at the Calne Music and Arts Festival which we entitled "These are a few of my favourite songs", ie. Calne's answer to the 3 tenors - bring on the three Altos! We loved it; belting out the theme from Chicago "All that Jazz", and twanging the heartstrings with "Every Time we Say Goodbye" - basically a Cole Porter fest with a bit of the musicals thrown in. This will be my first post of a photo: here goes....
The next noteworthy event was the trip to the Nurburgring racetrack with Bob...not as a spectator but seat-clutching passenger. Two days at the world's craziest bit of road = fifteen miles of twisty, hilly, bendy, bumpy road in Germany which is officially a one-way toll road with no speed limit. And believe me, there were people on the circuit who were not shy of squeezing the gas. No controls, briefings or paperwork. Just buy your ticket, wait for the barrier to go up and roar away as fast as poss. That Porsche 911 of Bob's (a 996 S4C in case you are interested) was fast - sweaty palms fast. But the weird thing was, no matter how fast you went there seemed to be endless cars shooting past quite a bit faster than you...and the bikes, pulling wheelies at 0ver 100mph as they flew past, death-defying dangling through the corners. Ok enough said, just wait till I get some pictures. By the way if any female relative is reading this, it was all perfectly safe.
Anyway you maths puzzlers, fire up that spare brain cell. There's a famous puzzle where (to cut short a long story about Chinese emperors) a grain of rice is placed on the first square of a chessboard, 2 grains on the next square, 4 on the next and continue doubling the number of grains on each square until you reach the 64th square. Ignore considerations of size of board, weight of rice, number of particles in the universe etc. The question is, how many grains of rice are there in total? The twist is, OK well done if you can work this out without a computer, but how can you come up with a fairly accurate approximation to the answer which should take just a few seconds with a pen and paper?
Music: Me and my three girls put on a little show at the Calne Music and Arts Festival which we entitled "These are a few of my favourite songs", ie. Calne's answer to the 3 tenors - bring on the three Altos! We loved it; belting out the theme from Chicago "All that Jazz", and twanging the heartstrings with "Every Time we Say Goodbye" - basically a Cole Porter fest with a bit of the musicals thrown in. This will be my first post of a photo: here goes....
The next noteworthy event was the trip to the Nurburgring racetrack with Bob...not as a spectator but seat-clutching passenger. Two days at the world's craziest bit of road = fifteen miles of twisty, hilly, bendy, bumpy road in Germany which is officially a one-way toll road with no speed limit. And believe me, there were people on the circuit who were not shy of squeezing the gas. No controls, briefings or paperwork. Just buy your ticket, wait for the barrier to go up and roar away as fast as poss. That Porsche 911 of Bob's (a 996 S4C in case you are interested) was fast - sweaty palms fast. But the weird thing was, no matter how fast you went there seemed to be endless cars shooting past quite a bit faster than you...and the bikes, pulling wheelies at 0ver 100mph as they flew past, death-defying dangling through the corners. Ok enough said, just wait till I get some pictures. By the way if any female relative is reading this, it was all perfectly safe.
Anyway you maths puzzlers, fire up that spare brain cell. There's a famous puzzle where (to cut short a long story about Chinese emperors) a grain of rice is placed on the first square of a chessboard, 2 grains on the next square, 4 on the next and continue doubling the number of grains on each square until you reach the 64th square. Ignore considerations of size of board, weight of rice, number of particles in the universe etc. The question is, how many grains of rice are there in total? The twist is, OK well done if you can work this out without a computer, but how can you come up with a fairly accurate approximation to the answer which should take just a few seconds with a pen and paper?
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