Tuesday, 19 July 2011

The last few days

I've been planning a few days away next week when Mrs TS gets back from her hols with Mother-in-law and daughters.  I've been booking my accommodation and places to go.

I have also been working on two puzzles for a small magazine a friend of mine publishes for the local bell ringers.  They do not come here so I can show you one of the puzzles. This took me about 45 minutes to do (only because I had fun using formulae in Excel to work it out - all those days with a Commodore 64 were not wasted as some Excel formulae are similar to the Basic I used to know.) The other puzzle is too complicated to post here, but it is a logic puzzle [probably not a very good one].

The ringers below have rung the number of peals shown.  How many peals has Penny Wilson rung?

John Law    16
Peter Cox    25
Jo Bloggs    32
Sophie Coe    36
Eric Smith    256
Martin Marsh    1296
Christopher Kent    1331
Penny Wilson    ????

I've been cooking for myself and a slow-cooked stew has done me for three days.

Today I went to play piano duets and some clarinet pieces with a good friend of mine.  She put me onto some videos a pupil of hers has put up.  I share one below - enjoy!

6 comments:

Ray Barnes said...

Many thanks TS.

Quite quite horrible!

I sincerely trust the extremely talented young lady will never find an outlet for her skills.

Steve said...

Oh lordy. Maths. Not my strong suit. Can't I just listen to the bellringing?

David said...

Years ago I wrote a march for symphonic band and whistler choir. Sadly, I have never found enough competent whistlers to staff a choir that could handle the gig. Maybe "nosefluters" would be easier to locate... ;-)

Tenon_Saw said...

Ray: Watch her other videos; she is talented and happy; great qualities.

Steve: Enter bellringing into Youtube; I'm sure you will find some.

David: Maybe.

Kelloggsville said...

That's so funny. Clever girl!

Dan said...

Very talented!!!