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The Activity Workshop aims to provide a source of information for a wide variety of activities from the strenuous to the not-so-strenuous.

Air
Skydiving - plummeting towards the Earth without a safety net
Helicopter flying - zooming, hovering and swooping
Paragliding - floating silently, high above the scenery
Gliding - soaring and roaring through invisible airscapes
Indoor
Puzzles & Games - test your logic skills or just wage war
Electronics - construct kits and build your own gadgets
Language - ponder languages or test your foreign vocabulary
Land
Via Ferrata - metal walkways and ladders high up in the cliffs
Mountain Boarding - offroad skateboards for airborne excitement
Lacrosse - two teams, two goals, armour, helmets, and funny stick things.
Land Yachting - wind-powered racing on 3 (or sometimes 2) wheels
Hiking - breathing the fresh mountain air, basking in the scenery
Website news:
the Translatinator for helping with translations of GpsPrune & Murmeli;  a new birthday reminder called Oops, Forgot;  two new Firefox addons called TheCoordinator and MmaBlindfold;  version 23.2 of the GpsPrune application and its user guide, together with some metrics and three new videosVia Ferrata in Flims;  possibly on their way: GpsQuests;  the 2023 Advent of Code
Snow & Water
Snowboarding - floating on frozen surf, riding mountain-sized waves
Windsurfing - tacking, jibing and racing like the wind
Wakeboarding - Carving real waves with boat power
Ski touring - Skiing uphill away from the crowds
Canoeing - Riding the white water on inflatable kayaks
Other
GPS - all GPS-related stuff including GPS experiments and coordinate files
Software - free software to download and play with
Books - a small but hopefully growing selection of ebooks

Whether you need a rush of death-defying adrenaline, a relaxing unwind from the world, or something inbetween, there should be something for you here!

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Motivation: if you were confused about why certain politicians supported Brexit even though it was clearly not going to be good for the country, you can get some idea of their motivation when the knighthoods and damehoods are announced. So there's their reward. Meanwhile we get the "freedom" to buy wine in pints instead of 750 ml, when no company will ever produce them. Fantastic vaporware. Similarly if you support a clearly disastrous Conservative leader, even though you know it's a bad idea, you might get rewarded with a peerage later. Terrific for us, huh?

Advent of Code: collecting stars in order to find the missing snow, or something :) Finished in position 1925 this year, somewhat down on last year's 1188.

Boris Johnson: talking nonsense yet again. He reckons that Donald Trump would stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and not as you might expect by withdrawing military aid from Ukraine (as he has done before) and praising the virtues of Putin (as he has done before), but by somehow supporting Ukraine in some mysterious way that miraculously ends a punishing war within a day? Oh yeah, sure, or he hands Ukraine on a plate, declares it an enemy of the west and claims victory for himself and his unquenchable ego.

Rishi Sunak: "the will of the people, the will of the people" — no, Mr Sunak, your preposterous and costly scheme, which will only waste public money (not yours, of course) and trash Britain's reputation while doing nothing to stop the legal and illegal migration problem, is not the "will of the people", it's just vain showboating. Please stop stealing fatuous lines from Johnson and Farage.

Talking of the will of the people... poor deluded Andrea Leadsom. She's so confused that she thinks there was "always" a price to pay for leaving the single market. Didn't she get the very clear message that "there will be no downside"? Especially because Brexit didn't mean leaving the single market, Brexit means Brexit! Didn't she get all those repeated memos?

British farmers... seem also to be a little deluded about all the obvious Brexit benefits that they voted for. Can't they see the massive improvements over the last 8 years? Shame that they're now spreading "Project Fear" as if there were any possible downsides. Maybe they should just try "believing" a bit more. Or alternatively, take their grievances to the Government instead of to innocent road users. Same for the Brexit-voting fishermen too.

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