We had a good talk at the Numismatic Society tonight. The subject was FAO coins and the 57 slides passed swiftly, taking just 45 minutes. That’s what I like about a talk – informative and short. One of the other members then spent five minutes checking that his PowerPoint would run on the technology we have available. It does. He is due to give his talk in January. I’m due to give mine in February and I haven’t even started. It is a slight worry, but there is plenty of time. I will, of course, still be saying that a week before the talk.
Sorry, I was tired when I wrote this post and forgot to add information about FAO coins. They are a series of over a thousand coins (1,214 according to one article) released under a programme directed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. The idea was to raise funds and awareness by the use of coins. It originally started with stamps but the organisers soon realised that many of the poorer areas of the world were more likely to see a small denomination coin than they were to see an organised postal service.
One of my headlights has blown in the car. That’s not so bad at the moment, but will need replacing before I drive in the dark again. I still have plenty of light, and it’s still light when I drive home at the moment. However, as winter draws on, this won’t always be the case.
A detail from the barge
On my return from the meeting I found a wonderful meal of sausages, roasted veg and gravy was in the oven and nearly ready to serve. I had taken no chances tonight, as Julia often loses herself in preparing for tomorrow. The vegetables were all a little faulty (woody parsnips, tiny carrots and a rather bulbous leek) which I attribute to the general malaise affecting farming and the supply chain since Brexit and Covid combined to bring us down.
Readers in fifty years will probably be appalled that we didn’t have everlasting lights and radar, but particularly that we had to drive ourselves.. Give it a few more years and we will all be travelling in driverless cars. Not a prospect I welcome.
Pictures are details from the wharf at the pottery.
How to manage a rope
I just deleted this post, but managed to get it back. maybe I’m starting to get the hang of this stuff.
I know you will get your talk prepared on time and all will go well in February.
Hopefully the headlamp on your car is easy to replace. I replace my own.
They are tricky to get too and hard to get out once you have access, particularly as I’m not working with all my fingers. These days I pay, though this is only the second in five years. 🙂
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Good pictures and a good recovery too. I take your point about the driverless car. I like the little scene suggested by one commentator of a child saying, “What Grandpa! You mean they actually let you drive a car by yourself?”
Yes – times and attitudes change all the time. 🙂
I like those details from the barge
Thank you Derrick – I am trying to rebuild my skills after years of merely photographing for eBay.