What's new (or newish)
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| Not what you were expecting? The old site is still available on port 8080 - it's going to take a while to transfer the content across. Send me a mail [guy dot chapman at spamcop dot net] if there's a particular page you wanted me to expedite.
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Upcoming concerts
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- Copland Old American Songs (selection) and a bit of Lehrer at All Saints Rotherfield Peppard on Saturday 20 September 2008, with Marion's students.
- A "three choirs concert" at Douai Abbey on 27 September 2008 at 7:45pm in aid of the Bishop Home Trust; this is by invitation but email me if you are interested.
- Reading Bach Choir - A varied programme of French choral music accompanied by Nick Shaw on the organ including works by Josquin, Rameau, Poulenc, Fauré and Messiaen, all of it very lovely - All Saints Church, Downshire Square, Reading, Sunday 16 November at 3pm.
- Reading Bach Choir - Biber Requiem and Monteverdi Vespers of 1640 at Dorchester Abbey, 31 January 2009.
Choir members: here is the obvious link as promised. Note that this login is just for the choir members' private area and not for the wiki (for boring technical reasons).
PGP public key: pgp-public-key
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Cycling
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| Cycling is a means of transport, a form of recreation and a sport. It's the most efficient form of transport on the planet. Some people have, through creative accounting, tried to show that cycling is as "polluting" as a small, economical family car, but this is essentially sophistry as it includes all the CO2 emitted by the cyclist but ignores the fact that most people need to breathe anyway, that the growing and consumption of food is more or less carbon neutral (give or take the cost of transport, which also applies to oil of course), and that the distance travelled per unit effort expended is greater than for any other mode of transport. More...
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Also...
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- The fastest cyclist on the planet is Sam Whittingham, with a new record of 82.3mph.
- The record for Land's End to John O'Groats by bike is 41 hours
- Velovision is a quirky bike magazine, nothing ordinary in there!
I like...
- This YouTube video shows why people love the Deltic - 55019 storming past York on full throttle, it sounds like an aircraft or some exotic Italian sports car, rather than a diesel locomotive.
- The Minard map, an amazing representation of the folly of Napoleon's Russian campaign.
- IAM fact sheet on sharing the road with cyclists, great stuff.
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