Devon, I’m in Devon

Mark’s talk was live-streamed as well as recorded and later uploaded to YouTube

In a whirl of high drama, we had a last-minute change of speaker this month. James Rigby had been scheduled to talk to us about Reiman's Hypothesis, but when he saw his name on the billing he reminded me that some months ago he had asked to move date, something which I had clearly instantly forgotten. So Mark Christopher boldly stepped into the breach and brought forward his talk on Devon, his home county. It was a broad tour of the county's history and peculiarities, from the granite that used to be mined extensively to make kerbstones and buildings, the distinctive longhouses where livestock housed on the ground floor kept the people warm on the level above, notable figures, the noble experiments with electric trams and compressed air railways, and the local dialect that Mark claims he slips into when back home. You can see a video of the talk on YouTube at https://youtu.be/jsBcprDjRks.