I am a founder member and currently secretary of the West Norfolk Autism Group and am autistic myself. I am a very keen photographer and almost every blog post I produce will feature some of my own photographs. I am an avidly keen cricket fan and often post about that sport.
The reason that I have not been blogging recently is that I have been ill. I returned to work yesterday, having left work early one week previously due to illness. Some traces remain but not enough to prevent me working.
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ENGLAND
TEST CRICKET CAPTAINCY
After 59 matches in charge Alastair Cook is no longer England test captain. His replacement seems to be being decided between Stuart Broad (who has previously captained England in limited overs cricket) and Joe Root (the bookies favourite).
My choice out of these two would be Root. Specialist fast bowlers are rarely successful as test captains owing to the energy that their specialism takes out of them when they are in the field. The concern over Root is whether having the captaincy will adversely affect his batting.
SOME PICTURES
These pictures are of missing February images that I created yesterday….
Click on the image above to view a full auction catalogue.
THE AUTISM AWARENESS CUP WEBSITE
To visit the new website for the Autism Awareness Cup please click here.
Anna here showcases a splendid letter from a former strategic planner at SL, Stockholm Public Transport (there is also more air time for a comment of mine)…
After Swedish text a google translation to English follows.
Politikerna i Trosa har fått ännu en skrivelse angående exploateringsplanerna för västra Trosa och Tureholmshalvön. Ni kan läsa den nedan.
Vill ni också agera och låta politikerna veta vad ni tycker om deras planer, skriv till politikerna.
Har ni frågor om hur ni kan agera kan ni eposta mig på anna@fargaregarden.se
Ni kan också läsa skrivelsen från boende vid Gillbergsvik Käftudden i inlägget Låt örnen flyga.
Dela gärna detta inlägg vidare, så att många kan läsa och få information om frågan.
Trosa politicians has got a new letter from citizen who thinks the exploitation of Trosa nature is not so good idea considering the need to save Trosa nature. You can read a google translation of the letter here:
“Letter to the politicians in Trosa
Municipal government, City Council,
Planning Board For information…
Introducing the Cosmic Skeptic, who I came across by way of twitter.
INTRODUCTION
The debunking takes place in a seven minute video that was drawn to my attention by twitter, but there is also a cosmicskeptic website, which I recommend to your attention.
PASCAL’S WAGER DEBUNKED
A SECOND VIDEO FROM COSMIC SKEPTIC
Here is a second video from the Cosmic Skeptic (real name Alex O’Connor).
This event is taking place at theJohn Innes Centre, which is located close to the University of East Anglia, a little outside town (though there are regular bus services from central Norwich to UAE). Below the flyer I have included a screenshot from google maps.
THE AUTISM AWARENESS CUP 2017
This is taking place on June 4th, at Ingoldisthorpe Social Club. For more information, and/ or to support by the event by liking and sharing its facebook page click the image below:
WITHIN DAYS OF A SUPREME COURT RULING A BUS DRIVER FLOUTS THE LAW
Not long ago a case involving one of Britain’s leading bus companies went to the supreme court, where it was established that bus companies, and by extension bus drivers are legally obliged to grant access to wheelchair bound passengers. Therefore, this story from disabledgoabout an incident in Wakefieldwhere the driver not only refused to allow on a wheelchair bound passenger but then allowed/ encouraged passengers to blame the wheelchair user for the subsequent delay looks even worse than normal.
TRANSPORT IN THE FUTURE
This next piece comes from indy100.com. To read it please click the image below:
THE LATEST ADDITION TO MY WEBSITE
This piece, titled “Big Wheels Old and New”, showcases seven of the lots going under the hammer at James and Sons’ next auction, which feature the Gigantic Wheel that stood at Earls Court between 1895 and 1906, while also mentioning the London Eye. Click on the picture of lot 1286 to view my piece and the picture of lot 1295 below it to view a full auction catalogue:
SAM HARRIS ON TRUMP’S MUSLIM BAN
Earlier today I featured a superb post by Heather Hastie on this subject. Sam Harris, distinguished author of many fine books such as “The End of Faith”, “Letter to a Christian Nation” and “The Moral Landscape” has produced his take on this issue, which you can read here.
A note on comments,some science related links, some photographs and links to the Autism Awareness Cup facebook page and a full catalogue for James and Sons’ next auction.
INTRODUCTION
This is a post of my own, although featuring material from elsewhere. The text other than links is all mine, and there are of course come of my own photographs. Before getting on to the main meat of the post I start with…
THE COMMENTS SECTION
If a post is all my own, or like this post has a framework created by me even if some of the stuff contained within it is not mine then the comments section is open and all comments will be accepted and responded to. If however I have either reblogged a wordpress post or used a ‘press this’ button to share a piece created elsewhere I will close the comments section for that post as it is my intention that people should read the original, and the original is the appropriate place for comments to be posted. Here are a couple of screenshots to help clarify…
I did these screenshots while ‘pressing’ an excellent post from Heather Hastie. Here you can see two small boxes labelled “allow comments” and “allow pingbacks and trackbacks”, which are both checked (the default setting).Now I have, as my final piece of editing unchecked the box that says “allow comments”. For those who have not already done so, Heather’s piece can be accessed by clicking this picture.
SCIENCE AND NATURE CORNER
Welcome to what is becoming a regular feature of this blog. Today the posts are in order of the historical period they deal with, so we start with one set 450 million years ago, which details a find of…
TRILOBITE EGGS
This piece was posted on the website sci-news.com and can be read in full by clicking the screenshot below:
Moving forwards a few hundred million years we find…
BUGS IN AMBER
This concerns a new order of insects who have been discovered trapped in Burmese amber. I offer you two versions – click the screenshot on the left as you look to get the sci-news.com version and the one on the right to get the whyevolutionistrue version.
Finally for this edition of Science and Nature corner we come…
BACK TO THE PRESENT
With two videos from “Its Okay to be Smart”, the first of which details the discovery of a probable new species deep in the Amazon rainforest and the second of which asks “how many species are there?” (the answer is that no one has the foggiest).
PHOTOGRAPHS
Here are some of my photographs…
AUTISM AWARENESS CUP 2017
Below is a list of the confirmed details about this tournament, and if you click on it, it will take you to a facebook page which you can like and share.
JAMES AND SONS NEXT AUCTION
It will be a three-day auction, on the 20th, 21st and 22nd February (a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday). The first two days will be at James and Sons premises in Fakenham, and the Wednesday will be at The Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich. A full catalogue can be viewed by clicking on the image below:
A devastating analysis of Trump’s refugee ban from Heather Hastie…
In short, it’s stupid because refugees are the safest of all immigrants to the country and it creates animosity where relationships most need development. Once again, Trump is building walls where he should be building bridges. Trump’s Executive Order During the election, Donald Trump made all sorts of promises that appealed to a certain constituency. […]
Sea eagle at Gillbergsvik Käftudden Trosa 2017
