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July 2025
We had our second annual holiday this month, going down to
Beer in Devon fairly near Exeter. The weather was great and we did some nice things, including
visiting Plymouth (see photos above) and "activated" Mike Green's stone
circle. This means that Ian set up
his radio at the site and got plenty of contacts including the USA. The place we were staying was OK for
radio too, but was surrounded by hills and "noisy" electronics which made
hearing people difficult because of the interference. Up at the stone circle was high and
there was very little interference - fantastic. Mike Green (now sadly departed from us)
and a small team built the stone circle a few years ago using the
techniques and mathematics of the Neolithic Age people. (The story is told in "Eclipse
Prediction in Neolithic Britain" by Michael Green, available
from Lulu and is well worth a read.)
Otherwise, July was much as usual - we had some interesting
people staying in the, all of whom were
interesting with talk to and we are always proud that people come to stay
with us to see and enjoy this lovely area. As we said to one of them, we came here
over thirty years ago and haven't looked back. The Defender went in for its annual MoT and we found that the driver's floor was rotting
out - par for the course for a 25-year-old Land Rover. It's being fixed now!
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