@GaynorHaliday @JayneShrimpton @familytreemaguk Ha, I have a great family charabanc pic too! (My gt-grandfather is in it – he founded a bus company in Kent.)
“On two occasions I have been asked,—‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other…of the Lower…I am not able rightly to apprehend [this] confusion of ideas.” – Babbage, 1864
On last week’s Oxfordshire walk we happened upon this unusual stand of gum trees – turns out (via waiter in local pub) they’re in a very private arboretum that has been developing over decades, one man’s passion.
I’ve joined micro.blog – find me at afoot.micro.blog. It also works with Mastodon: @afoot@micro.blog – going to focus on writing about walking/landscape/history there and cross-post here. A wholesome refuge if Twitter crumbles further.