Warenge: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Film review: The Pirates! In an adventure with scientists

Aha me hearties, 'tis movie pieces of eight, so it be!!

Talk yea not of the hunger games, compared to this 'tis as dead as a dodo - or Polly as we call her!

Be there grog? I hear someone ask - me think that be O'Docker's croak. Aye, there be grog lad, barrels of it.

Be there wenches? Aye, Tillerman, for I know yon voice, there be the surprisingly curvaceous pirate and Queen Vic as you've never seen yon lass before.

There also be pirates, and the greatest pirate of them all, the PIRATE CAPTAIN!!! Arrrrr!!!!

His crew be a mottling gang, including the pirate with a scarf, Peg Leg (*), and the pirate with gout (ouch) but also a Blue Peter badge, aha!!

Me hearties 'tis entertainment through and through, aye, 'tis so, upon my word.

'Tis also educational as you learn how Mr Charles Darwin came up with his BIG IDEA and why he grew a beard. You also learn the benefits of travelling by airship ~~(you can look down lady's tops)~~.

Aha, 'tis a masterpiece, and starts with an aaaah-awesome example of stern-to mooring, aye, that it does.

Five gold ~~doubloons~~ stars, aha me hearties, yes it be!!!

(*) not this Peg Leg

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HORR 2012 Video

My latest rowing blog find is "Something about rowing..." which apart from being very funny and illustrated with great stick people cartoons was written by a member of the Cambridge women's rowing team - go Cambridge! - and also as a NatSci / astrophysicist.

In a recent post about their recent win over Oxford (yeh!) she embedded this great video of what its like to row in the HORR race.

Very impressive rowing from the Thames Rowing Club, based here in Putney, as they power their way to victory. Good line the cox took - avoiding the trap of cutting the corners but losing the current.

Lots of familiar landmarks there for a stretch of the Thames that I have walked, ran, biked, sailed, kayaked, canoed and, at least in part, swum.

Friday, March 30, 2012

The Sacred Boat of Queen Mutemwia

This is a very, very old boat.

Ok, its actually made of stone so wouldn't really float, but its a sculpture of the sacred boat of Queen Mutemwia (otherwise known as Mutemwiya). You can see it if you go to the British Museum where it can be found just north of the Rosetta stone.

It's from about 1400 BC, so that's around 3,400 years ago and I'm guessing it was actually made of reed.

Its strange to think that people just like us once sailed them and long, long ago this might have been cutting edge technology.

Out of sync at Somerset House

It's spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the daffs are out, but at Somerset House there's a reminder of the seasons down under.

This installation is called "Out of sync" by Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere, and maybe that's why the colour scheme is autumnal brown.

Anyhow very striking and can be found at the lovely Somerset House until 27th April, worth popping your head in the courtyard if you're near the Strand / Waterloo Bridge.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Ben Ainslie is Covent Garden

One of the icons of London is the fantastic underground network map, originally designed in 1931 by Harry Beck.

Another aspect to London is of course the 2012 Olympic Games, so put the two together and you get the TfL Underground Olympic Legend Map.

Appropriately water sports have got the blue coloured Piccadilly line, and you can see legends like Steve Redgrave (Knightsbridge) and Russell Coutts (Russell Square - a nice touch that).

And in the centre at Covent Garden is Ben Ainslie.

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Graphic from: TfL site here.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The great London Easter Egg hunt

One of the fun things about living in London is there's always something new going on. This Easter its Eggs.

Aha, you're probably thinking, nothing very new about that. But these are not your average chocolate treats, these are artist creations, large and there are two hundred of them dotted around the capitol.

What's more there's a prize of a real Faberge egg to the lucky winner worth £ 100k made of 18 carat gold with sixty gems in it. Every time you find one you text in a code or follow a QR link and you'll be one closer to the "Diamond Jubilee Egg".

Despite finding several.....

... (actually they are quite hard to miss)....

... I have not been entering. I am not good at finding things.

Incidentally two were actually stolen but then recovered, which is a just as well as the aim of the project is actually to raise money for charity and therefore is a good thing.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Finding things - updated

The weather's been great recently and along with what felt like most of SW London I've been pounding along the Thames path.... and yet again found something interesting.

I'm not that observant, honest, and have even run past friends who swear they yelled out. But lets add up the list: a gun, two mobile phones, a cashpoint card, some cash and a watch.

This time it was something Apple related, so I thought they must know who registered it and have an email, so I booked a tech support call. Alas they regretted that they couldn't help and suggested the local police.

Fair point, so I turned up on Saturday morning at the local Police Station, to find it was closed. This being the 21st C. the Met. have an email system so off flew a little message.

No reply.

I also did a Google of the device name and found a sport club which denied all knowledge.

So if you've lost an iSomething on the tow path email me! Just say what type, model, size, colour and your name and a confess to a couple of the more embarrassing tracks asap.

Though why Apple don't have a return to owner option on their web site escapes me.

Yoga comes to the chicest shack in the Caribbean!

Come one... come all. Yoga in the Caribbean is good for the spirit!

Cheers,