As Pete’s job hunt has so far been unsuccessful, we have enrolled Natalie at Hibaldstow Primary School in Year 5. She has made friends already and was grateful to leave “Mummy and Daddy school” as it was too much like hard work.

Speaking of jobs, Pete has posted his CV on the site (see sidebar). So if anyone wants to give him an interesting and extremely well-paid job, please look.

Neil commented, asking what this is. Conkers is a competitive, autumnal game. As always, Wikipedia can explain for the uninitiated much better than I, their article is here. When I was a child, the game was taken very seriously. A quick search on eBay confirms that this is still the case, look here. This guy however, may be sacrificing too much.
Here is a picture of Natalie practicing her technique.

I’ve made a few changed in the gallery, most notably i’ve hacked around with the php configuration files so that the slideshow function has more sensible defaults. I also took off the fullscreen option which used a java plugin, but only used the thumbnails for fullscreen!?
The slideshow function is at the bottom of each album page, should you wish to peruse.

We went on a walk around Pete’s home village of North Ferriby. The pictures are here. In 1937, wooden planks belonging to an ancient boat were discovered by a local man on the shore of the Humber at North Ferriby. Originally estimated to date from 1300 BC, newer estimates using radiocarbon dating have placed the boats between the years 1890 BC to 1700 BC, in the Bronze Age. The Ferriby boats are the earliest known boats found in Europe. Learn more about them here.

Here is some information on North Ferriby during World War II.

‘Tis the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats’ poem, “To Autumn”). I have added an album of pictures taken while walking around Hibaldstow in late September (and also included some of Redbourne and one of North Kelsey). The name ‘Hibaldstow’ comes from Old English Hygebald+stow, for “holy place where St. Hygebald is buried”. An interesting anecdote about the village is that in 1866, during the rebuilding of the church chancel, a Saxon-era sarcophagus was found, containing the skeleton of a powerfully built man. It is presumed to be that of Saint Hybald, a 7th century missionary. Creepy!
Read all about Hibaldstow here and here.

News on the job front: I didn’t get the Glasgow job so i’m still looking.

So the interview went OK, I think. I’ll hear from them in the next few days. The day after the interview I took some photos of Glasgow University campus. Here is one of Natalie outside where one of the worlds greatest physicists, Lord Kelvin lived,

who you can learn all about here.
Then we drove back to Hibaldstow via Edinburgh. Sorry we didn’t look people up - we just zipped through! Pics are in the gallery.
Hopefully this website loads a bit faster now, I fixed a php problem.