(based on an original idea by Michael Legge..)
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Thatcher’s Funeral at St Paul’s – Photo Exclusive!
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Funeral, Margaret Thatcher, St Paul's Cathedral on April 17, 2013 by telescoperMarch Weather in Sussex…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Daffodils, Snow, Sussex, Weather on March 14, 2013 by telescoper
The UK’s first female professor
Posted in History, Uncategorized on March 9, 2013 by telescoper
Hello friends. Happy International Womens Day! To celebrate, our friend Kelly Page has written us a We Are Cardiff about the first female professor to be appointed to the (at the time) Cardiff University. Go! Go!
First Female Professor Appointed in the Largest Coal Port in the World
Imagine it is 1904.
You are living and working in Cardiff, the largest coal port in the world.
You are a woman, 40 years young, working as the head of women’s teacher training in the town’s new university.
The university, University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University) is only 20 years old. It was founded with 13 staff and 151 students, 15 of who were women (1883).
You are working at one of the first universities in Britain to open its doors to female students and with a residence specifically for women, Aberdare Hall (1885). A hall that is…
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Cardiff Parks and Stadia
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2013 by telescoperTaking a post-prandial perambulation around Pontcanna Fields this afternoon, in a mixture of sunshine and fog. Here’s a view of one of the playing fields being prepared for a game of football. You can see the SWALEC Stadium in the background, with the Millennium Stadium just visible in the mist beyond. Today Cardiff City are playing Bristol City, and I could here the chanting from Ninian Park (a mile or so away) carried on the cold breeze as I took the picture.
A little piece about Little Sun..
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Little Sun on February 15, 2013 by telescoperJust time for a nano post today to alert you to the fact that my little contribution to the Charter of Light and Energy has now been published online at:
http://littlesun.com/index.php?sec=charter&p=Peter%20Coles
Please have a look, and why not read the other pieces while you’re there?
Follow @telescoperMardi Gras Special Menu
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2013 by telescoperSince folk around the world are celebrating Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”) today, I thought I’d pass on the following topically inspired menu:
Mardi Gras Special
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Starters
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Mixed Horse D’Oeuvres
Colt Consommé
Boiled Trotter
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Main Courses
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Roast Beef with Mustang
Pot au Foal
Filly Mignon
Frutti di Mare
Mules Marinière
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Desserts
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Strawberries with Mascarpony
Red Rum Baba (no added Shergar)
Roast Chestnuts
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Extras
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Thorough Bread
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I hope the above menu proves satisfactory but if not please send your suggestions for additions through the comments box…
If Audrey Hepburn were alive today..
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2013 by telescoper
Cardiff Bridge in the Dark
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cardiff, Cardiff Bridge, River Taff on January 31, 2013 by telescoperI took this with my Blackberry walking home on Monday night along the Taff embankment in the torrential rain; it was taken just by Cardiff Bridge where the Taff flows under Castle Street/Cowbridge Road. As you can see, the river was pretty swollen as the result of recent heavy downpours. Yet another flood alert was issued yesterday afternoon, but I have seen the Taff higher than this. It’s still an impressive beast when it’s got its dander up, growling along as it speeds down towards Cardiff Bay.
In defence of the Royal Institution
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Albemarle Street, Harry Kroto, Royal Institution on January 22, 2013 by telescoperJust a quick reblog to draw attention to the campaign to save the Royal Institution from oblivion. Following catastrophic management by Susan Greenfield when she was Director of the RI, it is now virtually bankrupt and forced to contemplate the sale of the historic buildings in Mayfair it has occupied for over two hundred years. Please support the campaign.
I am pleased to join forces with, and lend my support to, the Save21AlbemarleStreet campaign set-up last Friday by Mary R. Perkins. The following statement reflects discussions we have been having. A new joint website will be appearing later, and in the meantime I encourage people to follow @Save21Albemarle on Twitter and, for those on Facebook, to join the group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/Save21AlbemarleStreet
Thank you to the overwhelming level of support so far. I apologise for not replying to each email individually – there are just too many!
Harry
Campaign to Save the Royal Institution
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” So wrote Winston Churchill, and there is no building anywhere in the world to which this profound observation applies more than the Royal Institution. We can move all the books in the British Library to a new building, as has been done, and we can move all…
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Aida in Verona (2006)
Posted in Biographical, Opera, Uncategorized with tags Arena di Verona, Franco Zefirelli, Opera, Verona on January 10, 2013 by telescoperI thought I’d try out the WordPress app for my Blackberry by posting this old picture, taken in the Arena di Verona while we were waiting for the start of the sumptuous production of Verdi’s Aida on 30th July 2006. The Opera doesn’t start there until it gets dark, but the evening sun was glinting on the gold pyramid sitting in the centre of the stage, so I couldn’t resist getting a picture. The late start meant we enjoyed a nice dinner before the performance, along with a very nice bottle of Amarone…
In the Dark 