Archive for November, 2007

Easier said than done

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

I spent most of this afternoon attempting to attach two pieces of 0.25 micron Teflon tape to some larger Teflon blocks while wearing low-friction gloves.

It wasn’t easy.

A vist to the Tate: Shibboleth

Monday, November 19th, 2007

A minor addition: Shibboleth

A lucky find in the rubbish and junk fallen into the crack of Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.

Fire

Monday, November 12th, 2007

No pictures from the archives this week, mainly because I’ve misplaced the box full of photographs. Instead, here is a rather poor shot of the fire in Stratford earlier today.

Fire at Stratford Olympic site about 1 hour after it started

As seen from about two miles away at Mile End about an hour after it started.

The Oldest Road

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The road to London

High Road follows the path of an old Roman road from Colchester in Essex to London and is one of the oldest in the UK. It has been in use for at least two thousand years. The junction is where Whalebone Lane South and North meet the High Road. The areas of fields and allotments along side the roads are all houses and shop now. The pond visible on the left of the image is now covered by industrial areas along Selina’s Lane.