Author: sroot

  • A very lucky week for Steve!

    Do you remember the saying that things always come in threes? Well, I really should buy a lottery ticket. Instead the numbers I would have picked had I bought a ticket for Saturday will be 7,11,32, 40,48,49. Why do I tell you this? Well I believe the odds of me winning the lottery are so…

  • GPS Logging from my PDA…needs a little work I think

    I spent the afternoon of my day off going for a walk. From my house in Faversham I walked to canterbury via some woodland, old villages and the North Downs way. As my PDA has a GPS receiver built in I thought I’d try logging it’s output to see exactly how fast I’m walking nowdays.…

  • The Island (Victoria Hislop)

    If I’d seen this book in the second hand bookshop, I would have been unlikely to choose it. However, it came highly recommended by a friend who lent it to me and I’m so glad they did! The island is a story of a family history and it’s discovery by a girl from London. Her…