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The Padovan Sequence and the Plastic Ratio

12th October 2020 OldTrout 0

The golden ratio is well known and is associated with the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. (phi) is the positive root of the quadratic equation . The exact value is given by Its continued [more…]

Deliverance

29th May 2019 0

The Conservative Party and the Labour Party, the duelling banjos of UK politics, took a stuffing, a stuck-pig type stuffing in the EU elections. Squeal piggy, squeal! Burt Reynolds was the man, the alpha male [more...]
The Swaling, Part Twenty Two

26th September 2020 0

By the time I’d returned to my room, paddling up the dripping steps, Emile had curled up on her end of my bed and had fallen asleep. Wept herself to sleep even, after overhearing me [more...]
Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 0

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more...]
Collecting Paintings

7th April 2020 0

In case the subject is off-putting, it may assist if I give a brief history of my own collection. It became a hobby of middle age. I had very little knowledge of the subject and [more...]
Roger Ackroyd’s Question Time Review

22nd February 2019 0

Question Time 21st February 2019 Panel: Chris Leslie (Remainer. Tigger) John Barnes (Remainer. Ex-footballer) Mel Stride (Remainer. Tory) Andy McDonald (Remainer. Labour) Ella Whelan (Leaver. Spiked journo) Venue: Chester After making a mistake of putting [more...]