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Start them young….
Here is my granddaughter Isla having her first piano moments with Auntie Em and my friend Hilary, the piano teacher. She took to it well with very precise movements and followed Hilary’s instructions 🙂
Cambridge Travel times mapped
Here is an excellent map showing the one hour isochrones if travelling by rail from Cambridge. Its taken from the MySociety website. Other maps show the bus and rail times in Edinburgh, London and within Cambridge itself. There is also a very useful map for the likes of me that shows which parts of the country are better reached with a rented car than by train.
A very interesting site more so because the OS didnt get their pound of flesh from them because “This work was funded by the Department for Transport, who also made it possible for us to use Ordnance Survey maps and data through their licence”
Many thanks to Cory at Boing Boing for the link.
Trial of Origin beat 600 bands
My nephew Sam, lead guitar in the band Trial of Origin, messaged me earlier today with the fantastic news that they had beat more than 600 school bands to reach joint first place in the BBC Midlands Today School of Rock competiton. This means they will get time in a professional recording studio. You can watch an excerpt of them playing here afterwards they may even get some needle time on Radio1.
The BBC site still shows second place but according to Sam “its cos of this BBC thing. have u heard one of the bands got a computer or something (maybe skype) to block vote for them. so they got loads and loads votes, so they won. HOWEVER the BBC knew they hadnt really won, and wen they took away the false votes, it was us who actually won. so even though we were classed as the runners up, theyr still giving us the winners prize“
Robert Scoble featured them on his blog last year (Scoble ahead of the pack as always) afterwards Ewan Spence picked up on them and featured the band in his rock podcast #14. Maybe I can get Fred to feature them over at his A VC blog.
Really excellent news and they get to play a gig at the Birmingham NEC