WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Big Kev]

I had a chat with the rig operators yesterday.

They are indeed testing ground conditions in advance of development. The survey provides information for the design of appropriate foundations and samples are taken for testing to check for any contamination that may need to be dealt with (standard requirement for a brownfield site).

They commented that they hadn't found anything unexpected and that contamination appeared to be minimal. They are hitting bedrock around 5 metres down.

With a larger rig, they can sometimes be testing as much as 60 metres below the surface.

Here's the Bankfield demolition yesterday. The water tank beyond the boiler house is beginning to be revealed.



(I did have a picture without a bird smudge, but liked this composition with the canal boat better...)

Posts like this will be invaluable in years to come. I find them fascinating.

[Cathy]

Bastille Day Attack in Nice. Our tv channels are giving us continuous coverage.
Dozens of people dead, just awful and devastating for so many.

[Stanley]

How well I feel as I gradually move my clock forward and do less work to lessen the shock of a normal timetable next week.
The fact that when I dug into the papers I need to set up a Lasting Power of Attorney I found that I had bid £9,000 for a mill in Hebden Bridge.... I had forgotten that completely!
Cathy, THIS BBC report puts the death toll at over 80 this morning. The world has gone mad. You can bet a pound that someone somewhere is saying "Look what happens if you are in the EU" and in the long run that could be as damaging as terrorism.

[Marilyn]

I can't understand why France has been consistently targeted.

Where are you going next week, Stanley?

[Stanley]

Teaching students from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) at Keele University for 5 days with my old mate Martha..... We haven't done it for 15 years but the Regents asked us to do it one last time as we built up a bit of a reputation over the twenty years we did it annually. Looking forward to it, I love bright kids!



I shall be teaching a similar group to this one in 1986.

[Marilyn]

What are you teaching? (Subject matter)

[David Whipp]

Today's progress with the Bankfield demolition.

[Stanley]

Morning Maz, Industrial history and archaeology interspersed with drugs, sex and Rock and Roll..... Their main benefit is to be exposed to someone entirely different after a lot of theory down at Cambridge....

[Marilyn]

Sounds like fun...
(Go easy on the Rock and Roll though. Not kind to older hips!)

[Stanley]

Safe enough Maz, all I do is answer questions.......

[Stanley]

My head is full of all the things I have to do outside my normal activities to get ready for Keele tomorrow. That includes shutting the house down and security.....

[Wendyf]

Dennis is almost back to his normal self, head up, cantering round the field and trying to get Sparky to play! I've just noticed him catching a toe on the ground occasionally but that's all. I'm wondering now if he may have had a mini stroke of some sort. I'm still weeping, but with relief!

[Marilyn]

Go Dennis!
Excellent work my lad!

[Tizer]

That includes shutting the house down and security.....

Don't forget to set the man traps!

[chinatyke]

My head is full of all the things I have to do outside my normal activities to get ready for Keele tomorrow......

Enjoy your week at Keele. Wonderful thing that you are doing for those kids, I'm sure you'll all have a good time and lasting memories of the week.

[Julie in Norfolk]

Munsterlanders! I went to near Newark to have a look. I plan for the future and this may well be within the Julie plan for the future.

[Wendyf]

Ooh Julie, a friend of mine got a Munsterlander last year, a magnificent dog...well bitch actually, but they need plenty work to do! I'll find out where hers was bred.

[Wendyf]

Munsterlander...now in Scotland, bred somewhere in Lincolnshire I think.

[Stanley]

Thanks China.... See you all on Saturday, I'll be off the radar until then. Look after each other.....
Meanwhile, in the US they're shooting policemen again.....

[PanBiker]

ARM Holdings being sold to the Japanese. One of Britain's business success stories. Originally Acorn Computers who developed the ARM technology based on the RISC platform. Current generation ARM processors power the Iphone platform and billions of other high end processor based systems. I used to repair the first ARM2 and second generation ARM3 and platform machines, (Archimedes) to component level.

[Bodger]

Was,nt sure where to post this, Spanish bridge construction Meccanno style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4eM0qoUhaE

[PanBiker]

Happy Birthday Bodge.

[Wendyf]

Happy Birthday Bodger!!

[Cathy]

Hey Bodge. Happy Birthday
What are you up to?

[Bodger]

Hi Cathy, thank you for the greetings, we have four daughters 2 in Ireland, 1 in England, and ! in Albany W A. she is the only one that wasn't here over the w /e, being in Ireland there were copious amounts of Guinness and other alcohol beverages consumed, as the daughter from England isn't going back till Saturday i'm afraid there will be more consumed, a good job i was born in a pub and started early and got used to the taste, my first purchased pint was when i was 14, the Friendship Inn, Glossop ,Robinsons dark mild 10 old p. per pint, , you could get 24 pints for a £ 1.00, paying a fiver a pint now.
Still Enjoying life, all the best, Tony