A long while ago, I managed to get high above Manchester, not High as in on drugs mind you, but as in a long way above ground. And at the weekend just gone I had a look around an old hotel in Swindon, while in Hacman this evening I wondered […]
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Today I took MiniBoyGeek out on the big trains from New Mills Newtown to Manchester Piccadilly, on a Northern Rail train much much older than him (pre privatisation).
I missed out on Day 1 of Makerfest as I was working on Saturday. but here are the photos from Sunday:
Following on from the plans to put a path in between the Chips building (Ancoats) and New Islington Tram stop , over the Ashton canal, this is what they have managed to achieve! A chain is 22 yards! the path is approximately 44 yards long, or 2 chains long, but […]
Over the weekend I received a letter from Julie Roscoe (head of planning at Manchester City Council) informing me that application number 104709/FO/2014/N1: “erection of a part 2, part single story building to form a new 2-form entry school with associated car parking, landscaping, play areas, boundary treatment and vehicular […]
Way way back in my original post about the New Islington Free School on the land adjacent to Cotton Fields I touched on the suggested roads used for dropping off the kids. Am I the only one who can’t see the space that will be used?
From my recent post about the planned school for the land at New Islington Marina / Cotton Fields in Manchester, you may recognise this diagram from the planning submission: Now the cunningly awake ones of you will have seen in the files e-Documents- 104709-dlp-0001 – Location Plan and e-Documents- 104709-dpp-0008 […]
There is a cunning plan under Planning Application number 104709/FO/2014/N1 for a school in New Islington, next to the Marina at Cotton Fields in Ancoats in Manchester. Dear Sirs, I am writing to put forward my views on the Planning application (planning ref 104709/FO/2014/N1). This is the proposal to build […]
Down at hackspace today jake and I had a go at taking the eMac to bits. Jake is a bit of a cos play geek 🙂 This is the old eMac that is being turned into the helmet for his costume. I will ask jake for a picture / details […]
For the last while me and my bike have been traveling between Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe, Virgin run an hourly service between these two stations using Class 390 Pendolino Stock, with most of the sets being brought into service between 2001 and 2004 (a latter set were made between 2009 […]
Yesterday while on my way to work cycling towards this junction This “gentlemen” In this van Decided that undertaking me (he must have been right on the kerb) (right hand lane to go strait over) before the lane split, then swerving his company van towards me would be funny. I […]
A while ago (it has taken me a while to post this) there was a horrible crunching noise coming from under our back cabin floor. normal it makes less horrible whirring noises, as under there lives our prop shaft. It turns out that we had taken out the bearing on […]
my contract with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) has not been renewed, so for fun I am now without a job, one of the things however I am allowed to do in the UK while applying for work is apply for JSA (Job Seekers Allowance). I am trying to do […]
There is a cunning plan, and that cunning plan is to escape… escape the west, heading east we plan to first go… um… west to Llangollen, because b0atg1rl has never done the Llangollen Arm of the Shropshire Union canal (bit of a mouthful) on her own boat; and well I have […]
It’s been a fair while since I last wrote an update to my blog; back then b0atg1rl and I were looking for a boat; since then we have bought ourselves a 58ft Semi-Trad called nbSteven (the name will be changed when she next comes out the water!), b0atg1rl is currently bringing […]
In 2011 passengers contributed about £6.5bn and taxpayers £4bn a year to the running of the railways (ref). Now I will be the first to admit I don’t like how the Rail Network is set up at current [1, and 2]. However Let us quickly compare the cost and subsidy with the […]