Dad

60009 is one of those numbers you can type out on a calculator that looks the same upside down.

If you divide it by 9, you end up with 666.66', all the sixes, so there's another link with the 2 numbers in this number, that aren't zero.

Is zero a number?

These are the kind if maths puzzles my dad used to do, from some magazine sent out by the Institute of Mathematics, for fun in his spare time, after he had finished for the day being a maths teacher.

He liked numbers.

The eagle eyed will have spotted the numbers in this photo are those off the front of a steam engine, and if you were a proper train spotter like he was, you'd know  its Union of South Africa, a Sir Nigel Gresley A4.

So back to maths, 64B, resolve B. 

We'll it's a code, and the shed code for Haymarket where this loco 'lived'....in Edinburgh.

Anyway, it's 23 years since the old train spotter departed for the last time, sadly a little ahead of timetable. Another number.

As always I use blip to mark the day and remember him.well. Memories fade and you end up with more of a feeling.

May go and take some pics of steam trains in the snow today. 

**Update - added as an extra, it's LMS Jubilee - LEANDER - 45690. If you added 15 to this number you get SEAHORSE 45705 - which was his favourite locomotive.