Archive for April 2007
Spikey thing
April 29, 2007, 8:47 pmI think this will become a flower of some sort. The plant itself has never flowered before, for the frst time ever this year it survived right through winter. I shall see what happens.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Pink Flowers
April 29, 2007, 4:57 pmWe have some pink flowers in the garden. Can’t decide which is my favourite shot, so I uploaded three…
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Manchester from Exchange Station
April 26, 2007, 10:01 pm
Taken from what once would have been the entrance to Manchester Exchange Railway Station but looking in the opposite direction, the Cathedral & the modern Arndale tower.
It is interesting to see what actually remains of the old station whilst I was there - as it just became a large car park and was never built upon, there’s quite a bit still in existance. The remains of a footbridge could well become a future Manchester Bridges feature because most of the bridge deck has been removed and you can now see exactly how it was constructed. The famous (and one time record holding) 2,194 foot long platform is still there as are the other platforms and if you look closely, sections of girders protruding from the top of the bridge parapet adjacent to the long platform… these once being the uprights for the station roof.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
x2 + y2 = z2
April 25, 2007, 5:21 pmQuite a few people at work were having a go at a puzzle on the BBC news website and in various newspapers today. The subject… Maths. There are two questions, one an entrance exam question from a Chinese university, the other came from a 1st year exam at a “well known and respected” university from the UK. The point was to highlight the difference in standards.
If people haven’t already seen it, have a go - you will have a laugh at the standard of the british question compared to the chinese…
—ikl | 5 comments
(posted in the Main Blog category)
Ongoing Piccadilly Place development
April 24, 2007, 9:56 pmThe latest photo from the Piccadilly Place development near Manchester Piccadilly railway station. Three photo’s also appear in a previous post, starting with work just over a year ago in March 2006.
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(posted in the Manchester Skyline, Photo Album category)
Manchester Architecture #44
April 22, 2007, 8:14 pm
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(posted in the Manchester Architecture category)
Then there was the return journey…
April 21, 2007, 12:43 pmEntertainment is always different every week - it is as if by stepping onto the last train to Liverpool you walk into a soap-opera with alternate plot lines.
This weeks plotline centred around the “no smoking debate” and featured energy saving lightbulbs. I don’t know where the train operating company get the trains that they use late at night but they are knackered. Our carriage had no lighting… none at all (hence the energy saving lightbulbs). The main storyline however centred around a bloke standing by the closed doors who lit a cigarette. Mr American sitting in front of me wasn’t impressed, got up, grabbed the cigarette and stubbed it out on the floor. Mr Cigarette’s friends then rallied around him and he lit another… A heated debate ensued for a few minutes with Mr American finally losing his temper near Urmston. He lunged at Mr Cigarette but missed (possibly due to either drunkeness or the lack of lighting) and lamped the chap standing next to him. This guy fell to the floor. What followed can best be described as an extremely heated debate which for a few moments spilled out onto the platform at Irlam for an improptue brawl.
You see the benefits of getting the last train, where else can you get such varied entertainment every week? Impromtue Salsa dancing last year I think was most memorable…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Trespass
April 21, 2007, 12:38 pm
There I was sitting on the station platform waiting for the train yesterday evening when out of the corner of my eye around the bend I saw something cross the tracks. It was rather large for a bird I thought… then I did a double take and saw a train stationary at the exact same point. I was reminded of the story a few weeks ago of a foolish individual unsuccessfully attempting to cross the tracks near to the station in front of an express - luckily this was the local stopping service and going the other way.
So it appears i’ve found the missing sections of fence - ironically less than 50 yards away from the bridge. Why haven’t Network rail filled in the gap in the intervening few weeks?… and more importantly - what’s wrong with using the footpath over the bridge?? Network Rail certainly know about it now because the driver got off the train to have a look around.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Let’s nibble Bill Oddie’s nuts…
April 19, 2007, 9:11 pmI really need to find a way of connecting the video recorder to the computer. Taking photo’s of the tv screen just doesn’t work properly.
So here we have Mr Pigeon having a late breakfast this morning, he took a good 6 minutes to finish his feast. From careful study, I have discovered he prefers Bill Oddie’s Nuts to the local garden centres Wild Bird Seed…
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(posted in the NatureCAM category)
The annual Blossom photo 2007
April 18, 2007, 6:22 pmEvery year I take a photo of blossom on the tree in the garden… here are the photo’s for this year.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
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