CHARLES RELLE'S HOME PAGE
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The links on this page represent some of my own interests. I am of course not responsible for the content of sites not my own.
Tiddlywinks: My chief reasons for creating a home page were to publicise Tiddlywinks and to make available on the Internet my descriptions of the game. They are designed to show that Tiddlywinks is more than a nursery game, and interesting in its own right.
'Tiddlywinks, My Hobby': a short introduction, adapted from something written for friends with whom I play Bowls. It is less than two pages of A4.
'Getting Started with Tiddlywinks': This is more detailed than 'A Short Introduction', with more on tactics and descriptions of shots. It also contains a simplified version of the rules of the game.
'Simplified Rules of Tiddlywinks': Also found at the end of 'Getting Started', and here printed separately for easy access.
A picture of Myself playing Tiddlywinks, put in to convince people that the game does take place.
'Tiddlywinks and Literature', an article gathering a few Tiddlywinks quotations.
Tiddlywinks on the Cam. In the winter of 1962-1963, the River Cam froze over, and some of us took the opportunity of playing Tiddlywinks on ice. There have been suggestions that we may have another similar winter, so these five pictures, taken by John Breeze, establish that we accomplished this feat in February 1963.
Other tiddlywinks pages
The English Tiddlywinks Association
Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club
The North American Tiddlywinks Association
For tournament formats and movements, in Tiddlywinks and other games, Julian Wiseman's pages are worth study.
Andrew Garrard has some good illustrations of Tiddlywinks shots.
I once taught Greek and Latin, so here are some useful sites. The work of directing readers to other informative sites has been done by the people maintaining these links.
Perseus, for all things Greek, and much else
Bill Thayer's pages (Lacus Curtius)
For texts, the Latin Library is a good starting point, but look at Forum Romanum too.
Photographs of Greece and Greek Artefacts
I do not suggest that I am a good photographer, or that these photographs have any particular merit. Some of them may make available things not often photographed, as well as some very well known things. They were all taken on public days, so some intrusions are inevitable. This part of the site is very much under construction, so it will change from time to time!
Maidstone and Kent (where I live)
My Retirement
A copy of the thanksgiving service at my retirement, 14th July 2001. I hereby formally acknowledge all copyrights.
A copy of the sermon preached on that occasion by Eleanor, my wife.
A relatively new interest, taken up at retirement: I joined the Maidstone Ramblers in September 2001, and found them a very welcoming group. Their web site is here. Look also at the Ramblers' Association site.
My walk from Perry Wood to Badlesmere is here.
In September 2002, I did Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk. Some information about this walk is here.
"Expotitions' (not to the North Pole)
A friend leads 'Expotitions' to places of interest. Some photographs of these places are visible here. As with my Greek photographs, I make no special claims for them, but they may interest people who have been on these 'Expotitions'.
