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Blog 41 Diary July to September, 2022

Following on from Blog 38, here is a slightly shortened version of my diary for the third quarter of 2022: Friday, 1st July – From November last year until April this year the number of visits to my website were… Continue Reading →

Blog 40 The Standard of Living and other things

The Standard of Living In 2006 I read that the average standard of living in Britain was three times as high as it was fifty years before, although I have never seen this mentioned anywhere else. I believe that the… Continue Reading →

Blog 39 History and other things

The times when I can think clearly continue to become shorter and rarer, and my memory continues to get worse. At the same time I feel as happy now as I have ever been. I enjoy spending most of my… Continue Reading →

Blog 38 Diary, April to June, 2022

Following on from Blog 35, here are some quotations from my diary for the second quarter of 2022. The photograph referred to in my diary for 8th June can be seen here. The relevant part of my own panorama can be… Continue Reading →

Blog 37 Television

When I was younger I used to enjoy travelling to distant places, but now I get the same enjoyment by reading books such as the Eyewitness guides, by typing the names of places into my computer and by watching television…. Continue Reading →

Blog 36 Wainwright Facebook Group, continued

In Blog 15 I uploaded some messages from the group that are difficult to find because you have to scroll down such a long way to reach them. Here are some more that have appeared since: Chris Jesty, 31/8/2020 [referring... Continue Reading →

Blog 35 Diary, January to March, 2022

Following on from Blog 32, here are some quotations from my diary for the first quarter of 2022. Saturday, 1st January – Between 1970 and 2018 my weight varied from 10 stone 6 pounds to 13 stone 9 pounds. Since… Continue Reading →

Blog 34 Astronomy and the Higgs Boson

All my life I have been reading interesting items of information – too many either to remember or to write down – but occasionally I read things so interesting I feel I have to record them so that I don’t… Continue Reading →

Blog 33 Mathematics and other things

Mathematics Whether infinity plus one is equal to infinity or whether it is greater than infinity is a matter of opinion. Whether infinity to the power of infinity is equal to or greater than infinity is also a matter of… Continue Reading →

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