I like a bit of nerdy stuff, especially when it’s stuff I can actually (vaguely) understand!
Just to clarify Graeme, you do do this walking through impassable paths in shite weather stuff for fun don’t you?
KInd of. It’s great when it stops. Which it did here today.
I should’ve walked home too but, well, beer. And rain. And Mrs VB had brought the car.
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Nice! Love a pub with a cricket pitch, good beer, decent food and a roaring fire.
With a bit of luck there’ll be one near where we end up retiring to. Then I’ll never have to leave it apart from going home to bed.
That’s a bit more than 17 miles from Goring!
Actually in a straight line (or the shortest possible walk) it’s rather less. The Ridgeway from Goring to Bury Down is just shy of 9 miles
An extra half mile at Goring to get up to the station, and a mile and a half to drop down to Ilsley would make it 11 or so.
One of the objects of the exercise though, and the reason I started in Goring (far from where I live), was to help embed part of this route into my head, and to log some timings over it https://hike.org.uk/classic-hike/. Goring station is on the CP1 to CP2 leg and I wound my way up and down and side-to-side via the other CPs as far as CP7, then backtracked down to the pub, which is what added all the extra miles.
Dave has no shame, he frequents this place after all.
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I really like that photo, does he sell prints?
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I will ask Chris.
8th Dec at 7.45am. 
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My confusion.
You were talking about Dave’s photo being in Brighton etc and in my head you were here
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Me too at first.
Wow ! I’m flattered, I think. I did once start a walk in Peacehaven. But it took me three days, plus a tube and a train from Greenwich, to get home.
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I’ve never seen this uncropped version before - even more inccredible.
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Woodside High school teacher, Sandy Brockman. It’s probable you could learn much in this class. None of it would be on the curriculum.
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Uncommon Sense. Going over the Niagra Falls in a Barrel
Perfectly adequate
Off she goes
Ah ha this fine fellow has gone full belt and braces
Nailed it !
George Stathakis poses on his barrel before taking the plunge. 1930.
Ah, The body of George Stathakis is recovered from his one-ton barrel after going over the falls and becoming trapped for more than 18 hours. 1930.
Here’s another winner
Boot fetishes aside, tidy job Mr. Red Hill Jr. 1945.
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And that tie looks like the sort of thing you can only get away with in black and white photos.
Finding and scanning more photos. WFH before it really existed.
At the time I was working for a startup that didn’t have anything as advanced as an office. The bigger machine is (obviously) a Dell running that New Fangled Windows NT 3.51. It replaced an absolutely monstrous DEC Alpha box running OSF/1 (IIRC) that left me with sky-high electricity bills. Although I could have the order of succession wrong there.
The other machine is (was) an Acorn RISC PC. Anyone remember those?
I suspect this was Christmas day 1996.
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Oooh! Tres louche 
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Yes, we had one those at my school 
I think they were called the Archimedes.