Cheers,
It’s bright and sunny and has been for several days now! What a treat. Yesterday we walked with Sue and Ed to the Angel Pub which is a stroll along the Thames from here. After that, since it was a clear day, we walked…
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Writers Festival at the Whitechapel Idea Store
Addendum to the Great Fire story
Hi All,
Actually maybe more of a correction than addendum. I really glossed over the rebuilding part of the story but our friend Ed Kelly, much more of a history buff than I pointed out the following to me in response to my email. I …
Monument to the Great Fire of 1666
Cheers,
Last Sunday Randal and I took part in our second www.walks.com tour. It focused on part of the famous London Square Mile that makes up the old city of London. We began the tour at the monument to the great fire of 1666,…
Back on the Blog
Cheers.
Today I checked out my first library books at the Artizan Street Library Walking the London Blitz by Clive Harris and Walking London’s Docks, Rivers & Canals by Gilly Cameron Cooper. www.com does a Blitz walk and I do think …
Typhoon Flashbacks
We’ve been following the progress of super typhoon Haiyan — strongest typhoon to make landfall in recorded history — the past couple days as it approached and ripped across the Philippines. Not a matter of idle curiosity, as Haiyan’s path starts as a…
Haiyan Crossing PI
This image shows Typhoon Haiyan’s track across the Philippine Islands (View Post…)
Typhoon Fengshen, June 2008
June 2008, MV Ice raced across second half of South China Sea crossing, to make shelter in Bolinao, northern Luzon, ahead of Fengshen’s arrival. We squeaked in by the skin of our teeth and rode it out at anchor. (View Post…)
Back in London
Cheers,
Whew it was a quick trip home! Sort of like, “now you see them, now you don’t.” We only saw some of you this trip, but maybe one of these days we’ll be back to stay. Our flight was on time, comfortab…
Schematics for heat exchanger changes
Interesting how the schematic for the proposed system is analogous to a DC electrical system — where the distribution manifold and valves would be the circuit breaker panel on the positive side out to the power users and the return manifold being the …
