Archive for June 2007
Beverage to mouth error
June 30, 2007, 12:39 pmScenario : 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.
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(posted in the videos category)
Pinata!
June 30, 2007, 11:18 am
Fun with a Pinata at Burge & Lucy’s…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Debenhams Warrington
June 29, 2007, 6:27 pmI 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.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
“This was a big bra, it had really large cups.”
June 28, 2007, 6:22 pmYou 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.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Bug of the Week #20
June 27, 2007, 2:45 pmThis 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.
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(posted in the Bug of the Week category)
Waterlogged
June 25, 2007, 9:50 pm
I remember when this was the lawn, after todays weather it resembled more of a wetlands bog. I’ve given it a good forking, hopefully the water will subside a little quicker…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Grunhalle Lager
June 23, 2007, 2:33 pmBack in the days when SKOL and Carling Black Label were two of the more popular lagers, long before the influx of continental lagers such as Stella Artois appeared, what was then the brewer and pub chain Greenall Whitley sold Grunhalle Lager in it’s establishments. It was supposed to be the british version of a continental lager…
Maybe it is a modern myth that the name Grunhalle was in fact “Greenall” translated into german. A quick search on the internet finds a company called Grunhalle Lager International Limited based in St. Helier, Jersey which ceased trading in 2003. There are also photo’s of the bottled beverages with that same company name on…
Whatever the origin of the name, there can’t be many signs like this left up.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Takeaway Forest
June 21, 2007, 9:25 amMaybe I was a little premature in writing off CUBE’s takeaway garden. Upon closer inspection, the “tree” that I didn’t think was a very good specimen turned out to be 6 separate saplings. I have planted my takeaway forest to take the total number of trees in the garden to 18; 10 mature and 8 saplings.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Takeaway Gardens
June 20, 2007, 7:24 pmSo I went into Manchester this lunchtime to pick up a free takeaway garden from Piccadilly Gardens as it tells you on the CUBE Website. Alas there was no-one in sight and no gardens in boxes making themselves known. I then wandered down Portland Street to the CUBE building to see if there were any there. I explained to the receptionist I was looking for a takeaway garden… “Ah”, she said, wandered off to the corner of the room and came back carrying a brown paper bag with a tree poking out of the top. “Oh, thank you” I said and left.
Looking at my “free garden” when I got home i’m wondering if there are some logistical problems in the delivery of the turf and wildflower seeds from the relevant suppliers - because they were missing! The tree is a Silver Birch, about 3 foot high and not the worlds best specimen as it has 5 stems - maybe it’s a new variety of Silver Birch Bush!!! I shall examine it tomorrow and decide whether I should remove four of the stems or leave it to grow as it is. Equally i’m undecided whether to complain about the missing wildflower seeds… “wildflowers” tend to just be a posh name for weeds however, so maybe not.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Free garden in a box
June 18, 2007, 5:29 pmIf you go to Piccadilly Gardens between 12noon and 2pm up until saturday, you too can have your very own free garden in a box brought to you by CUBE, the Centre for the Urban Built Environment on Portland Street. It’s apparently somehow related to Architecture Week…
Each garden consists of turf, soil, wild flower seeds and a little tree. How nice.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
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