Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Following river courses to and from their sources!

Now the business & office is sold. The big house move is behind me
and my other house is renovated and let out it’s time to start
travelling!

Next week, after our weekend in The Cotswolds,  I’m rambling all 184 miles of The Thames Path from its source near Kemble to the Thames barrier, Sally will join me when she can.

In July I hope to cycle my bike back from Les Gets via the source of the Rhine in Reichenau, Switzerland to where it meets the North sea about 800miles!.

Then in October and November I hope to visit the source of The Yangtze  where it originates in a glacier lying on the west of Geladandong Mountain in the Dangla Mountain Range on the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau  although I don’t think I can cycle or walk its entire 3,915 miles!

Afterwards  after travelling by train overland to India. I intend to do the holy trail upto where The Ganges rises at the foot of Gangotri Glacier, at Gaumukh, at an elevation of 3,892 m (12,769 ft) Cathy thinks I should don all the traditional gear of the  Sannyasisi, since I’m over 50 vegetarian and bald 🙂

Should all be very interesting to see the major rivers of their respective countries, lets hope my stomach can take the strain.

Hunting Pingo’s in Norfolk

Today 10 of us set out, ably led by Ron & Margaret, on the Cambridge Rambling Club’s A team walk. It was a 40 mile trip from Cambridge to the start in Hockham Picnic site car park.

We were out to spot Pingo’s although according to Wikipedia they are actually collapsed Pingo’s although personally I kept thinking of Isla’s favourite cartoon pingu!

A very enjoyable walk with many April showers. Here is the walk on Everytrail:-

Hunting Pingo\’s in Norfolk

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A day in the woods with Cambridge Rambling club

Today’s Cambridge Rambling Club ‘A’ team ramble was led by Vera. 12 of us set off from Toft (well actually from Gresham Road, Cambridge).

Twas a gorgeous sunny day with lots of blossom on the trees with cowslips and a few bluebells making their 2010 appearance. We wended our way from Toft through Great Eversden, Kingston Wood and then lunch in Bourn churchyard, followed by a drink at the very trendy Willow tree pub where are numbers grew to 13 with the addition of a recent Nobel Prize winner 🙂 then along Bourn brook and onwards to Hardwick wood.

A great day out and many thanks to Vera to organising it.

Toft Circular Walk with Cambridge Rambling Club at EveryTrail

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Word This in Chrome

An experiment in using the Word This extension in the Chrome browser.

I started on my Flickr homepage, so this is the link  it auto added to the post

Flickr: Your Photostream.

Now lets add an image

Wow that was neat! & quick

Seems pretty good for adding posts about a website.

However, it seems to lose the post if you change the webpage mid stream 🙁

One thing about Chrome is the extensions are installed instantly! So far I’ve added XMarks, Lazarus, Evernote, Google Mail and of cause Word This.

Maybe I will convert from Firefox which seems to be getting slow and crashes quite often…..

ps I forgot to add a title 🙁 it defaulted to the inserted link, manually changed it now