Hello again, patient reader; I apologise for my long absence, I have had a pretty busy couple of weeks, what with the Amsterdam trip being added to my otherwise hectic life. If you have been pinning for information on how it all went, I can finally reveal that it went very well, thanks for asking. In addition, I went to Artis (Amsterdam Zoo) as part of my continued quest to visit all the science museums in Europe (the zoo contains their equivalent of a Natural History Museum); perhaps in the future I will write something about this. I will have to synthesise everything I remember about all the museums into a Coherent Whole though, so you will have to be patient.
Anyway, today I went on what you could describe as a Journey into the Past, if you were feeling grandiose. It started when I had a free hour due to one of my students being taken ill, so I decided to look up a question that I have been meaning to find the answer to for a long time. I must warn, this post gets a little sentimental, and if you find such things irritating, I apologise.
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