30 June 2007, 12:39 pm

Beverage to mouth error

Scenario : You are around at a friends house… you’ve had a few beverages to drink… you decide it would be a great idea to sellotape a plastic mask to your head. Even with the benefit of having a straw, how do you get to the drink? Join Aaron as he demonstrates.

Category: videos

30 June 2007, 11:18 am

Pinata!


Fun with a Pinata at Burge & Lucy’s…
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Category: Main Blog

29 June 2007, 6:27 pm

Debenhams Warrington

I went for a wander around Warrington this afternoon, it’s a while since i’ve last been in. The new heavily extended Golden Square shopping centre is now home to a Debenhams which from the outside looks, ok I suppose.

Category: Photo Album

28 June 2007, 6:22 pm

“This was a big bra, it had really large cups.”

You don’t often get amusing stories in the New Civil Engineer magazine, normally all of the articles just waffle on about “sustainability”. Apparently however this week, “Academics call for action after bra destroys sewer pipe causing road to collapse”.

You can read about it on the BBC News website – it includes a very fetching photo of the undergarments covered in… sewage I guess.

My favourite comment is from the engineering magazine however, it was a spokeswoman from Northumbrian Water who came up with the quote I used as the title.

According to a local newspaper somewhere further up north, “Dirty water and excrement flowed down Middleton Lane, in Middleton St George, near Darlington, and into people’s homes”. Local councillors are blaiming the water company for the burst – probably because they haven’t got anything better to moan about. “The main problem is the sewers just can’t cope – they really are antiquated.” said Councillor Doris Jones, demonstraiting to the whole world her knowledge of sewer design. Maybe she should go down to London to see Bazalgette’s victorian sewer system and then stop making statements that have no technical merit.

Category: Main Blog

27 June 2007, 2:45 pm

Bug of the Week #20

This bug has faded over the years from being bright orange to yellow but still after all this time recommends Opti-Free Express contact lens solution.

Category: Bug of the Week

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