The Effect of Calcium Tablets
I reported in Calcium and Vitamin D, that I thought that the calcium tablets were helping me get a bit better.
It is some days since I wrote that and my typing seems much better. It could also be today, that Ipswich beat The Damned United yesterday and that gave my brain a lift.
But I’m not going to knock it!
Also, my mouth seems better. I just wonder if my mouth is rather acidic and of course the calcium tablets, which are mainly calcium carbonate will neutralise the acid and generate carbon dioxide. Could that create a beneficial effect?
Racing Shoots Itself in the Foot Again!
I wanted to watch the races from Longchamp today, but it is not available on free-to-air television, probably for the first time in several decades. So there is an hour on BBC2, but most races will not be shown live.
It is on Racing UK, but you have to subscribe and the number of races I want to watch is not worth that!
But let’s face it, it really takes stupidity with a sport like horse racing, to have two TV contracts, one which shows some meetings and the other the rest!
So I’ll watch the football!
How Can They Get it So Wrong?
This is another story, that would make my father turn in his grave. There is no excuse these days for publishing a book with so many mistakes, as HarperCollins has done for Jonathan Franzen.
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
I bought two of their burgers last week in Waitrose and I had them for supper last night, with some onions and new potatoes. And very nice they were too! The only ingredients in the burgers are Aberdeen Angus beef and seasoning, which is just salt and pepper.
They may not be vegetarian, but they are certainly gluten-free!
A Date in My Diary
Last night, the BBC repeated the program about the Coventry Blitz. It reminded me that I shall be going to see Ipswich at Coventry on New Year’s Day. I shall of course visit both cathedrals.
I was talking to an Italian tourist at that I met at Mallaig about other places to go in the UK and I suggested Coventry. He mentioned that the verb to coventrate, or lay waste by areial bombing, is now incorporated into the Italian language.
The Stirling Prize
I like architecture and always try to watch the results of the Stirling Prize.
Last night we saw six commissions fight for the prize. I liked the Neues Museum best, but then what do I know about architecture!
It’s only the Result that Really Counts!
I think most Town fans went home happy with a two-one victory. The Leeds fans certainly weren’t and were complaining about the ref and especially his sending off of Alex Bruce. But he was being roasted by Andros Townshend, so it would have happened in the end.
If I had anything to complain about, it was the overcrowded train, that took me back to Newmarket. We need bigger and better ones!
Street Sculpture in Ipswich
I have always liked street sculpture and feel it is something that brings art to everybody, or in the case of Minsk in Belarus to the people. There are some of the Belarus street statues on this page. I must add to this page, as I have lots of photos from when I visited the city to support England.
Ipswich has some good street sculptues or statues, which tend to be on the popular side of culture. Here’s the Giles family in the Buttermarket.
The Giles Family, Ipswich
It was erected as a tribute to the cartoonist Carl Giles, who lived in the town. Does any other cartoonist have a statue of his famous characters? Or do they have the street named after them?
You might think a statue of cartoon characters is unusual, but the other two popular statues in the town are those of Sir Bobby Robson and Sir Alf Ramsey. Can any other town boast two statues to their football managers, but none to any of their footballers? I doubt it!
Here’s Sir Alf, on the touchline for the World Cup victory in 1966.
Statue of Sir Alf Ramsey, Ipswich
And then there is Sir Bobby in a much more animated pose.
Statue of Sir Bobby Robson, Ipswich
There is also a sculpture trail for Ipswich. Is Ipswich unique in not having any full-size statues of military or royal and often obscure figures in the town centre? There is only one statue of a prince in the town and he was Russian. But Alexander Obolensky is not rememberedso much for being a prince as for scoring one of the greatest tries in the history of rugby.
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