Mundane News

[Fab Foodie]

That

I would love to have a Maine Coon cat but I don't want to remortgage the house.

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looks like a made-up cat!

 

[ianrauk]

A long overdue building site update

The 2 tower cores are now complete and they are now fitting the housing blocks around the core.

Each block arrives on a low loader. Each one is a complete room, with electrics and plumbing already built in etc They are lifted into place then slotted together like a giant jigsaw.

As you can see, the first floor of blocks are in place

The next floor of blocks are now arriving and being hoisted into place.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'd love to be able to afford a Bengal,

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That's better.

 

[Fab Foodie]

My mouse has decided it no longer wants to scroll. I might try a reboot.

It's scared by all the cats on here....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Great musician...touring UK next month. Got a couple of his albums on those 'cassette' thingies.

On Vinyl here!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Have you got your coat?

Too hot for that in Egypt....

 

[raleighnut]

Excellent! Saw him live supporting Tina Turner at Wembley in the 80s. It was half empty until Tina came on when it soon became rammed, they missed a great performance. Mrs FF went for Tina, I went for Robert!
I'm such a bad influence....

I saw him at Glastonbury in 87, stunning.

 

[raleighnut]

On Vinyl here!

Ditto.

Plus I've got an excellent turntable to play them on.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A long overdue building site update

The 2 tower cores are now complete and they are now fitting the housing blocks around the core.

Each block arrives on a low loader. Each one is a complete room, with electrics and plumbing already built in etc They are lifted into place then slotted together like a giant jigsaw.

As you can see, the first floor of blocks are in place

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The next floor of blocks are now arriving and being hoisted into place.

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The day before yesterday I was taking a minicab home over the bridge and the cabbie wondered out loud why they'd built it so tall and so narrow. I think I'd managed to get him to see it as the block's backbone by the time we'd reached Deptford High Street. This may be an overly optimistic view of my pedagogic powers.....

 

[ianrauk]

The day before yesterday I was taking a minicab home over the bridge and the cabbie wondered out loud why they'd built it so tall and so narrow. I think I'd managed to get him to see it as the block's backbone by the time we'd reached Deptford High Street. This may be an overly optimistic view of my pedagogic powers.....

We had a visitor to the office who said the same thing. ie That's the thinnest block of flats I've ever seen

 

[EltonFrog]

18 & 15 score on pop master today.

 

[Illaveago]

I've had a Wood Pigeon fancier in my back garden as there is quite a scattering of feathers on the ground.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

We had a visitor to the office who said the same thing. ie That's the thinnest block of flats I've ever seen

To be fair, that's probably what struck me when I first saw one. Was your visitor a newcomer to London?

 

[ianrauk]

To be fair, that's probably what struck me when I first saw one. Was your visitor a newcomer to London?

Nope... but had a few beers inside him :-)

 

[potsy]

Serious business going on here..