Sunday, 31 August 2008

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Q

I've broken an unwritten rule here. I want my letters to be seperate. For example, If there is a "D" shaped bit of road that is attached to another road, I'm not going to use it. I won't use "S" shaped oxbows in a river for the same reason.

But I really like this Q. It's a spectacular thing for sure. Can you work out what it is?

If you're unable to work it out, click on the google earth link and zoom out a bit.

54°33'30.54"N, 2° 6'52.52"W

That puts it in County Durham, England, in the Northern Pennines just in case you were wondering.

This Q means that I now have about a third of the upper case alphabet, one thirteenth of the lower case alphabet, and none of the numbers, although that will change in the next few days.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890

In the pipeline...

Quite literally in one case.

The letter "Q", the number "8" and lots of funny shaped fields.

Bet you can hardly wait...

Friday, 29 August 2008

V

Where would we be without V's?

Geese would have to fly in higgledy-piggledy skeins. Churchill would have stuck two fingers up and it would have been II for IIictory. Mullet headed rock guitarists the world over would be strutting around with Flying Q guitars.

But fortunately, I've found a big capital V. Not only is it big, but it's yellow as well. How did it take so long to find it?

56°14'12.82"N, 9°18'18.41"E

Next time you're flying over Jutland, a little south of Viborg, have a look out of your window and it will be there. It probably glows in the dark.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890