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Meades on Architecture
August 29, 2010, 9:19 pmI am continually impressed by Jonathan Meades’ Architecture documentaries. Who else would commence a television programme with the following description? :-
This is a tree; here is a cow… and look, a rock.
You can tell the tree is a tree because of its bark, branches and bows etc., but more than that because of its essential “treeness”.
Ditto our friend the cow, she is identifiable as a cow by her hooves, her horns, her teats, by the flies around her eyes, and by her imbecilic stare like minor royalty; but more than that, she is identifiable as a cow because of her basic “cowness”.
Likewise the rock; sometimes a rock, a particular rock can look like a slumped cow, but mostly, rocks look like rocks.
Now we are going to see some transformed tree, some worked over cow and some altered rock.
This programme was part of his 1990 “Abroad in Britain” series.
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Wander along the River Trent
August 22, 2010, 8:56 pm
From the Attenborough Nature Reserve, I took the bike out for a ride along the River Trent to Trent Lock - always a pleasant destination. The cows were in the watercourse called the “Cranfleet Cut” that diverts river traffic off the Trent.
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Stockport’s Tram Network
August 9, 2010, 7:10 pm
Work has been progressing on the Council’s upgrade to the A6 junction next to the Town Hall for a few months now. Today came a source of interest for everyone in the office overlooking the work. By looking closely, it becomes clear just what is in the excavation… it is the old tram lines that were used up until 1950.
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A perfect job for Brian Blessed!
July 11, 2010, 1:37 pm—ikl | no comments
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Goodnight Timperley!
July 8, 2010, 10:03 pm
This evening was “Frank’s Fantastic Farewell” at Castlefield Arena. A free event put together as a tribute to the character that was Frank Sidebottom with live music and video of the character himself shown. As the night went on, the venue filled up rather well.
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Patriotic wheelbarrows!
May 29, 2010, 8:56 pm
Just in case people wanted to feel patriotic during their gardening this summer, B&Q have a rather tasteful england flag design wheelbarrow for sale - £40 or thereabouts.
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Free films are back!
May 20, 2010, 11:08 pm
The Spinningfields free films have returned. This week to start off was the story of Ian Curtis, the lead singer with the band Joy Division. Luckily for film-goers bored by such a depressing production, it seems he committed suicide aged only 23 and hence the film wasn’t excessively long. There are some more cheerful films to come over the year…
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Christo exhibit in Warrington
May 11, 2010, 8:20 pm
It is almost as if I have my very own Christo exhibit on my driveway… I wonder what could be underneath?!
It can only mean that the Volvo is finally going into the garage to have its engine removed, rebuilt and refitted. It may take me some time to complete, and given British Leyland cars tend to disintegrate when in contact with water, a semi-permanent cover was needed. I’m estimating it’ll take 6 months… on-and-off for me to complete.
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Crotty went potty with her grotty campaign
May 7, 2010, 7:26 pmAnd so my letter box breathes a sign of relief that election day is over. The Lib Dem candidate for the local MP has during the last few months laid seige to my letter box with leaflets, letters and newspapers promoting her campaign appearing almost daily. Maybe she missed the whole point of “canvassing” and how it can after a while become “harrassment”.
So election day came, I was in a polling station all day and so didn’t look at the rubbish in the letter box until today. What did I miss? A leaflet from Ms Crotty exclaiming that “It’s time to do something different”. Indeed, she offered to arrange for someone to even drive the voters to the polling station and back.
True irony is when you compare her phrase “It’s time to do something different” with the text at the bottom right of the page. I’ll leave it to people to work out what actually happened on polling day in Warrington South!
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Brinksway Air Raid Shelter
April 13, 2010, 6:10 pm
The recently exposed view inside from one of the air raid shelter entrances in Stockport. Shuttered concrete forms the entrance into the tunnels cut through the sandstone.
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