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Canal Boat scene

November 30, 2007, 1:19 pm

Looking south down the Macclesfield Canal from the canal bridge in High Lane

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(posted in the Photo Album category)

The people from the Highways Agency certainly deserve something for their recent “improvements” to the M56 at junction 7 at Bowdon. I’m not thinking a round of applause or a letter of commendation… more along the lines of a slap across the face with a wet fish or the sack. They have surpassed themselves by creating so much congestion when previously there was none.

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(posted in the Main Blog category)

Stockport Bus Station

November 26, 2007, 9:03 pm

Winter is definitely just around the corner as can be seen from all the fog across Stockport earlier this evening. Taken from the A6, this is quite obviously the bus station with the famous viaduct behind…

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(posted in the Photo Album category)

Old School

November 21, 2007, 6:26 pm

Am in F7 in the Renold Building at the university formerly known at UMIST. It’s nice to see the huge windows based computer projector over the blackboards still has a UMIST logo as the power saver image!

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(posted in the Main Blog category)

The whole world are engineers!

November 21, 2007, 5:42 pm

I’ve now seen everything, the misuse of the word “engineer” by seemingly the whole of the country… I passed a van on the motorway this morning which had emblazoned on the back and side in big letters “Landscape Engineers” - that would be gardeners to you and me.

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(posted in the Main Blog category)

Super fast motorway journey

November 19, 2007, 8:08 pm

Prior to the Highways Agency’s extremely successful attempt to introduce congestion and gridlock onto the M56 at junction 7 by narrowing the motorway from three to two lanes, I videoed the journey from Burtonwood Services on the M62 at J8, along the M6, M56 and M60, finishing in Stockport at J1.

The 25 minute long journey has been sped up somewhat and now takes 1.5 minutes.

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(posted in the Main Blog, videos category)