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  1. Learning Edward Lear's 'The Jumblies' nonsense poem for a sailing trip - http://www.nonsenselit.org/...
  2. @AndreaGillies You can't play it on a glockenspiel as it requires the opening and closing of a piano keyboard lid (part of the score)
  3. Read about the Garibaldi biscuit - named after an Italian General who, on visiting Tynemouth in 1854, sat upon and squashed an Eccles Cake
  4. Climbing Eagle Crag and ridge walk to Sergeant Crag with a rough descent (ripped shorts) ending with a cool nude swim at Black Moss Pot
  5. @annaattheambler there is a great application called Grab in your applications utilities folder
  6. Preparing for my channel race crossing by reading Chris Stewart's 'Three Ways to Capsize a Boat' - although I have expertise in that anyway
  7. With the Royal Highland Show on it was uncannily accurate to have the 'Welcome To Ratho' sign graffiti enhanced with 'you'll never leave'
  8. Eating a quarter pounder with cheese on a neolithic mound at Newbridge as aircraft descend on finals for Edinburgh runway just above me
  9. Wandering over the bings of West Lothian - part of a shale oil extraction experiment, it is like walking on an unforgiving alien landscape
  10. A morning around Linlithgow Palace and St Michaels Church - what a fantastic combination of buildings - exhausting spiral staircases
  11. All sheep in front field last night, Ram in back field this morning - he must have leapt the fence! Bleating at each other through the fence
  12. Watching horses swimming in the sea at Low Newton by sea, a microlight circles us, on the drive back a caravan overtakes a lorry on the A1
  13. Paddling in the North Sea at Dudridge Bay, Northumberland and drinking Sea Coal microbrewery ale at the Ship Inn, Low Newton by Sea
  14. Listening to Wilkie Collins 'Armadale' with a terrible anti-heroine - fabulous Radio 4 production.
  15. Woo 90% in my first celestial navigation test which means I will only get lost 10% of the time at night
  16. Exploring Edinburgh's Dean Cemetery - fabulous monuments and an obelisk to one of the Franklin expedition
  17. Wandering around the Edinburgh modern art galleries - great John Bellany and Damien Hirst rooms and around the outdoor lawns in sunshine
  18. Passing RYA VHF marine radio course in North Berwick can now send a mayday and hopefully get rescued...
  19. @AndreaGillies being the most selfish person you know, why am i setting up proxy servers to help the Iranians, for no personal gain?
  20. Found a hedgehog and 4 hoglets in our compost heap - have to keep them together (mum has escaped twice) until midnight then let them escape