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You've reached the Web page of the Powers family (Patrick, Catherine, Victoria and Mark) in Harpenden, Herts in the UK. It should now be clear what the interests of at least one of us are! To those interests you can also add canal Narrow Boats and a reasonably rare (only four known..)1932 Morris-Cowley two-seater..
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Sundials come in many shapes, sizes and styles.
They represent a fascinating link with a past technology. A little
bit of explanation here and some hints on how to find out more...
You can also learn how to join the British Sundial Society and, if
you want, find out a bit of what I currently do for the Society -
I am the Registrar - the one who maintains the Society's database...
There's also information here for BSS Members (and others) wanting
to submit sightings of dials to the Register and details of dials
they have found....And there's a new facility for those with
a WAP Mobile Phone! You can now get today's accurate
Equation of Time whilst you are at the dial! Click on the picture
to the left and read on!! |
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Barrow upon Soar Sundial |
Declared open on 3rd July 2004 by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, the new Millennium Park and Sundial at Barrow on Soar. Pictures of this imaginative dial on its opening day will be placed here shortly. | |
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Opened to the public in May 2001. Photos of the 12 metre diameter Millennium Dial and of the opening ceremony can be seen by clicking Here or on the photo on the left. I did the calculations (it's called the 'delineation') and following some excellent work by the artistic consultants and the building company, the dial has proved to be remarkably accurate. The Amble Development also won the 2002 RTPI Planning Award for Town Regeneration!! |
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Here are
some photographs of the on-going restoration of my 1932 Morris-Cowley
Tourer. Owned by me since 1956 but not driven since 1965!
Stop by from time to time to see progress. Together the Cowley &
I have seen a lot. The photo on the left was taken in the winter of
1962-63 and I still have it framed, here in my office at home.
Yes, it started first time after the snow had been cleared off!
The Cowley has been away for the engine to be un-seized, for new wings
to be made and for certain other works. But it is now back
- though still in pieces. Its 70th Birthday was on 18th June 2002! The
Cowley was first registered on 18th June 1932 you see. Not much work
done on her since
though.... Click HERE to see more photos of the car and its restoration so far... |
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And now for Horses!! Click the image on the left to go to the Horse section of this site but first check the STOP PRESS below!! | |
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*** DOMINO - STOP PRESS***
*** DOMINO - UPDATE *** Regular readers (if there are any!) will recall that the 20th August 2005 was a sad day! After a lot of thought I had decided to sell my horse, Domino. I had not been riding for a while and she was not getting enough exercise or attention so I sold her to a friend in Ireland who had known her when she was here and who had just started up a new riding school in Malin, Co Donegal. Domino was collected around noon on the 20th August to take only her second trip in a horse box (the first was when she first came to the yard aged 4) and her first sea trip as far as we know! Her journey took over two days but she had rest stops overnight en route in Carlisle and Omagh. I went to see her on Tuesday/Wednesday 30th/31st August. She had of course settled in perfectly, I think I worried more about her journey than she. She had immediately recognised the lady to whom I sold her as she came off the box and has never looked back. I have since been over a few times to see how she's doing - I am spending nearly as much on trips to Ireland as I did on her! Well, not quite of course!! Her new owner, Kate, had Domino covered by her own black and white piebald cob stallion in July last year and today (3rd June 2007) the result of this union was finally born as you will see from the panel above!! But hey, whilst waiting for news and photos of the new arrival, read on about Domino and what a cutie she is and look at some pics... I bet her son will be just as cute! -- 000 -- They always say that converts are the worst...<gg> A late comer to riding, I have come across a little bit about horses in recent years... This is really an excuse to put up pictures of Domino - she the 'cutie of the huge hooves' - and of Badger a mischievous horse owned by a colleague. As of 2007, Domino is 16 years old but by 2005 she had not been ridden by me for ages firstly because of a foot injury which seemed to flare up whenever I rode and then just as that got better I was prevented from riding because of the Foot & Mouth epidemic! Even though that was eventually lifted and we could ride out again, I seemed to find more excuses not to than I should.... Before going to Ireland Domino had lived and wintered out in her field where she was No1 (or sometimes No2 to a 'pushy' gelding) and was used in the School on a few days a week. Some photos here of a sometimes dishevelled Domino!! |
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Coming soon! (?)
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Some light relief from Sundials and Horses! "Can that really be?" I hear you all cry. Well, Yes - no effort spared on this web site.... We shall shortly have views of some of the Temples of Egypt taken on a trip there in March 2003 and some photos of the Narrowboat we used to have. Come back soon to see them... (Oops sorry - it's early 2007 and still none of these are up. Soon though....? | |
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Now, you Maths
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Question:
What's the significance of this sentence?
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. All of thy geometry, Herr Planck, is fairly hard...For the answer click here. |
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Now, you Maths
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Have you recently taken A-Level Maths?: Want to see if the paper you took is the same or harder than one set in 1954? If so then CLICK here and join in the 'Dumbing Down' debate about by sending in your comments too.... You may need to print the papers out to see the detail. |
Last updated:04.06.07
