Ok, it’s just over a month away, and I can’t now resist promoting it! London has been quite springlike for a while now, and with March just round the corner, a few of us though about doing some outdoor dancing. Well, I for one have missed it since my Lindy in the Park experience in [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Bomb the Bank, Lindy hop, London, South Bank, Swing Dance, Swing Dancers of London
The BBC reports that the US has decided to bring its own food to the Olympics, thereby turning down the biggest Chinese Takeaway in Beijing for a very long time. Understandable in many ways, an athlete has to be confident that s/he is getting all the right nutrients. After all, that’s what all those dieticians [...]
Categories: The Odd Spot
Another video for you all. Over the last 4 weeks at Wild Times in London, we’ve been learning the Dean Collins Shim Sham. On Monday, we performed it in public for the first time. So, with thanks to our teachers, Paul and Natasha, the London Swing Dance Society and a bunch of Swing Dancers of [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Dean Collins Shim Sham, Lindy hop, Shim Sham, Swing Dance
Forget "God" and the like, I believe in both Murphy’s Law and the Law of Averages. For the uninitiated, Murphy’s Law basically states that where something can go wrong, it will go wrong. The law of averages basically states that the probability of the occurence of something will tend towards the average. For me, combining [...]
Tagged: averages, glass half full, Law of Averages, Murphy's Law, optimism, probability, religion
I hadn’t realised it was that popular, so I hadn’t planned to do a new spreadsheet this year, but since someone has asked, I have done it. So if you like to have a 2008 version of the Rugby Six Nations spreadsheet, you can find it here.
Categories: Life
Tagged: 2008, Rugby, Six Nations, spreadsheet