Loddon Church, mainly in pictures (including the mini-museum which is partway up the church tower).
Loddon Church is a remarkable edifice, and there is much that is remarkable in the inside of the building as well. There is also a mini-museum of local history up a tricky flight of stairs (it is one floor up in the church tower). The church is also a meeting point for several footpaths. If you are in the vicinity of Loddon it is a must visit.
A Boxing Day post composed of pictures and puzzles – enjoy!
I have five puzzles to share (all via the mathematical website Brilliant – I am approaching a double century, my current solving streak now extending to 199 days) and photos that I have categorized in four groups. Therefore I will be interleaving puzzles and pictures.
This is an easy one – Lestrade would probably solve it without amateur assistance!
In preparation for the Christmas Day festivities I went for a walk yesterday morning, and many of the photos you will see were taken during that walk – others were taken at other times of the day. I first came across these birds when they were in a group near Kettlewell Lane, and since then I have seen a single specimen, in The Walks, on three separate occasions, most recently yesterday:
This one should not be too difficult either:
When everything is closed the opportunity is there to get unimpeded pictures of buildings that are usually busy.
This is one is tricky rather than difficult per se – and only 37% of solvers on Brilliant managed to crack it:
Recent renovations in the building that my aunt’s house is part of have revealed some very interesting little details, and I also got some interesting shots from the house of the person with whom we had Christmas lunch.
Not at all difficult, but very enjoyable to tackle:
We finish our photographs as we started, with a nod to nature:
We end with a fairly tough problem to which I have added an even tougher subsidiary question.
My follow up, adapted from a question raised by someone named Anne on Brilliant is this: What is the minimum initial deposit required to ensure that Fred’s money grows at a sufficient rate for him to become a trillionaire if he lives for as long as Earth remains an inhabitable planet (the increasing size and temperature of the sun will cause this in 1 billion years, assuming that some stupid species has not already done so,
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