Here is Emily’s essay that has been causing her a bit of stress, I will leave the reader to guess what it is on:-)
Emily’s essay as a Wordle
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Swedish massage in Cambridge
Geoff having Swedish Massage
What better after an invigorating walk than a relaxing Swedish Massage in the comfort of your own home, here in Cambridge, so many thanks to Sally for mine tonight. If you want to book a Swedish or Indian Head Massage then head over to Sally’s webpage and give her a call – she is in Cambridge most weekends.
Word of the day – Pightle
Whilst on our walk today we came across this farm with the name The Pightle, Larry and I were fascinated by the origin of the name so out came the iPhone and a quick search on wiktionary revealed:-
“Odd-shaped fields now caused problems which had not been encountered in the days before mechanization. Thus, over several years, fields were reorganized to be acceptably rectangular.This was cleverly and thoughtfully arranged but,inevitably, there were remnants, leftovers,off-cuts or tailings. In most cases, these were small pieces of land,which were essentially triangular in shape. The locals probably referred to these pieces as “pigtails”. In Norfolk dialect,this would quickly become pronounced as “pightle”. In the 1920′s through the 1940′s,the word pightle was in fairly common usage but has fallen into disuse in recent years.”
Once at home I was able to consult my 1909 first edition of the complete English Dictionary. this had the following entry:-
So there we have it an old East Anglian word dating from 1200 meaning a small piece of enclosed land.
Travel blogging in Cambridge
Today’s travel blog is a ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club. We did a 14mile figure of 8 centered in Newport, Essex.
It was an warm autumn day, exactly 3 years since I met Sally on the fateful Nar Valley walk. The colours on the trees were truly splendid, especially when the sun came out and even the overcast skies gave a feeling of the dark winter nights which are about to descend on us. Much talk about log fires and stoves.
I was very surprised to hear Vera’s amazing news that her husband, had just won the Nobel prize for Chemistry, here in Cambridge, and that they are about to visit the King and Queen of Sweden in Stockholm to collect the award and also will meet Barack Obama. An interesting aside for all those that want to curb immigration etc is that he was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India emigrated to the USA and now lives in England, in fact he has only been at Trinity College, Cambridge for about 18months, who no doubt will collect all the kudos. 
An excellent day out maybe we can get Murray Newlands to start walking and compliment his blogging skills!
Here is today’s outing on Everytrail:-
Newport, Essex, UK circular walk
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Sexy Cambridge
Celebrity Blogger Murray Newlands in Cambridge
Celebrity blogger, Murray Newlands was in Cambridge tonight, I missed him at The Twig (an offshoot of my friend, Lloyd Davis Tuttle group) meetup which was in The Vine not The Snug 
as advertised 
I finally managed to get a drink with him in my local The Globe
We discussed a wide range of topics particularly my VanSpot idea and also re-categorising some of my posts into a category “Travel-Blogging“. Murray is well into social media having over 30,000 followers on Twitter plus doing many interviews with blogging personalities.
A good evening plus I got to chat, on Skype, with Emily who was excited about her lecture today were she learned about the Pavlov experiments that, apparently, resulted in pigeons trying to have sex with lightbulbs
Geoff on Picasa
I’m surprised that more fuss is not been made over the privacy implications of the new Picasa3 face recognition software. It’s certainly superior to the Apple iPhoto offering. The most worrying aspect is that it allows you, well almost insists, that you link the photos to the persons email address. I wonder if Google are then taking the photo data and storing on there own servers?.
The image above is a collage of the 585 face images of me it has found on my main computer. Interestingly some are from group shots were it has picked me out of a large group!
Dunwich Day out
Today was the annual end of season trip of the Jesus Green Pool regulars to Dunwich for a dip in the sea followed by fish & chips and a walk along the shingle beach towards Sizewell.
The event was well attended by 16 regulars who all had a dip in the North Sea, some for the best part of half an hour, I only managed a few minutes before my fingers started turning white, remarkably one of the ladies who swam for 30mins still had pink fingers!.
The sun peeped out occasionally so a much better day than last year.
My photos of the event can be found by clicking here or viewing the slide show below:-
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Sally’s blogpost and pictures can be found by clicking here
My top Twitter Friends
This tweet :-
BigTweet This has got to be one of the cooler Twitter tools – “Top Twitter Friends” http://j.mp/FHlta Who is connected to who …
Drew this social network chart of my Twitter folks:-
It also thinks I should be following:-
| 1. | relucs via athinkingman cloudgazer sallyinnorfolk | |
| 2. | suw via stephtara euan dahowlett anniemole | |
| 3. | robpatrob via johnniemoore euan | |
| 4. | monkchips via dahowlett gapingvoid | |
| 5. | 1938media via gapingvoid dahowlett | |
| 6. | jobsworth via gapingvoid dahowlett | |
| 7. | robertshippey via athinkingman cloudgazer | |
| 8. | stoweboyd via stephtara gapingvoid | |
| 9. | whatleydude via anniemole davidcarrington | |
| 10. | lloyddavis via johnniemoore euan | |
| 11. | billt via mdales euan |
Pretty cool, especially the recommendations, they are all people I’ve met or heard off!….
