Cycle + GPS + Google Earth = fun
There's a reasonably sized circular(ish) paddling pool down at Hove Lagoon. We were cycling down that way with a GPS and noticed there there was no water in the pool. So.... obviously we decided to make a pretty picture:
Posted by Richard at 11:25 PM
February 21, 2007Banana Guard
We popped into Lakeland in BlueWater yesterday and I had a good giggle at the Banana Guard. Who on earth thought of it?
Posted by Jane at 4:53 PM
February 20, 2007Welcome to Brighton and Hove
These signs have been recently appearing around Brighton. Items 1, 2 and 4 sound reasonable, item 3 sounds a bit extreme.
Posted by Jane at 8:40 AM
February 17, 2007Upstairs at the Branch Tavern
The Cafe Sci this month was the most passionate I've been to yet. The topic was animal testing, with the presenter, Margaret Clotworthy (chaperoned by the Europeans for Medical Progress communications director), presenting a reasonable argument that alternatives should be evaluated to see how they compare against animal tests. Our co-host, The Exuberant Jenny, put her hands up from the start to say she held the opposite view. And so it kicked off...
Labels: Brighton, cafe scientifique
Posted by Richard at 11:01 PM
February 13, 2007My West Pier
I received the following email regarding some of the photos of the aftermath of the West Pier collapses and fire and the My West Pier project.
Dear Jane and Richard,
I saw your photos of the driftwood of the West Pier's Concert Hall...
I am an architecture student at the Technical University of Berlin. Brighton's West Pier is my diploma project.
My approach to the project is in short that if you want to rebuild the West Pier, it is necessary to collect the missing parts, the flotsam and jetsam, and reassemble them. Flotsam might not just be the driftwood at Brighton Beach, it may also be your stories and your visions of the pier.
I made two appeals in the newspaper 'The Argus':
"1. I want you, who took some flotsam of the collapsed and stranded Concert Hall, to take a photo of your part of the pier, where you have installed it now and send the photo via email to you@mywestpier.com!
2. If you took a part of the pier, you must offer a part of your home to build a new pier. Please look for the piece of furniture you would like to be part of a new pier, take a photo and send it to you@mywestpier.com!"
Maybe you can help me, because you have obviously been there!
Many thanks and regards from rainy Berlin,
JannesIf anyone has any images to help Jannes, please send them on to him at the email address he mentions above.
Labels: Brighton
Posted by Jane at 7:35 PM
February 03, 2007Roadkill, Brighton style
Posted by Richard at 8:18 AM
February 02, 2007BBC podcasts
Good week for BBC things, what with iPlayer not being killed, and now ....Football Focus has a video podcast! Sorry, the exclamation mark there probably isn't justified, but I like that show.
Labels: tv
Posted by Richard at 5:24 PM
Evolution climbing wall
Last night Jim and I headed off to the Evolution Indoor Climbing centre to attend the first of a 3 part Centre Induction Course. The centre is about 5 minutes away from work and opens from 2pm so should be a good after-work activity. It has been nearly 20 years since I last did any climbing, and that was very spasmodic, so this course seemed like a great way to get back into the swing of things. The evening started with us warming up by traversing, then moved on to knots and how to connect yourself/your harness to a rope for climbing before moving on how to belay. After the theory was done, we put it into practice and spent an hour or so climbing. The last few minutes we spent in the bouldering area learning how the grading works. A great evening, looking forward to next weeks course.
Posted by Jane at 8:43 AM
- Evo
Glad you had enjoyed it and hope you are not in too much pain today. I guess I'll see you there next thursday!
As for knots, http://www.animatedknots.com/ is a great resource.
Also I co-author a website magazine that covers all things climby in the south-east, www.everythingbehind.com.
Posted by Ben Sales on 2007-02-02 12:28:40
