Archive for May 2008
Why pay more?
May 28, 2008, 3:59 pmAccording to this large sign in my local B&Q warehouse, I can only assume they must be diversifying into other markets. I can see this product being popular during the hot summer months. I couldn’t see any rainwater for sale - I can only assume it had sold out due to the 15% off price reduction.
—ikl | no comments
(posted in the Moblog category)
Woodwork IV
May 27, 2008, 2:44 pm
I think i’ll call it a day at that. It has turned out rather well in the end - i’m quite pleased with it. Give it a year or so and the Wisteria I have planted will have grown up the red side and started to travel along the top trellis.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Woodwork III
May 27, 2008, 12:29 pm
Everything is complete, i’m now just waiting for the paint to dry before assembly.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Woodwork II
May 26, 2008, 1:02 pmWork is progressing well with two of the “yacht sails” complete. One is currently tied to a post with string and the other is on the floor surrounded by stakes to bend the wood and also act as a template for me to build the third.
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Woodwork
May 25, 2008, 1:17 pm
This is what I aim to build over the next few days. It will be a trellis screen between the grassed area and patio. The joiners on site at work thought it amusing that an engineer (someone who just sits in an office doing things on a computer) would attempt such a thing - especially as it involves bending wood into curved shapes! Let’s see how it goes - i’m actually quietly confident…
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(posted in the Main Blog category)
Disused Swimming Baths
May 24, 2008, 10:40 pm
I had the opportunity recently to visit a disused swimming baths, currently closed to the public located just a few miles south of Manchester. The buliding though not as ornate inside as Victoria Baths in Manchester appears to be suffering from the exact same problems - they are both mild steel framed structures and the steel has corroded somewhat.
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(posted in the Manchester Architecture, Photo Album category)
St. Peter’s Church, Ancoats
May 19, 2008, 8:34 pm
This was a building I first noticed almost two years ago, a selection of buildings surrounding the former St. Peter’s Church have now been partially demolished which enables some interesting shots to be taken.
—ikl | 1 comment
(posted in the Manchester Architecture, Photo Album category)
The view from Site
May 15, 2008, 5:37 pm
Everyone involved rather likes one of the projects I am working on at the moment, mainly due to the location. When the weather is good, I tend to not bother using the site cabin - instead I go and sit in the field next to it with my laptop and work from there. Just over the hill in the background is Derbyshire… a mere 1 mile away.
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(posted in the Photo Album category)
Manchester Skyscrapers #2 (1)
May 11, 2008, 6:09 pmMarch 2008
Work was underway clearing the site of the new Piccadilly tower on Store Street behind Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station. The old railway arches were being demolished first.
May 2008
Brick arches have been demolished, site clearance is now in progress.
—ikl | no comments
(posted in the Manchester Skyscrapers category)
…and it’s goodnight from him
May 11, 2008, 4:46 pm
This was the train from Chester to Manchester Picadilly late on friday night. The train was stopped at Manchester Oxford Road station for a good five minutes during which time, neither of the two people moved. I reckon the chap on the right spent most of saturday with a hangover. You have to be quite drunk to fall asleep face first onto such a table.
—ikl | 2 comments
(posted in the Main Blog category)
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