Southend Kitesurfing

It was a sunny morning so after doing the dad taxi thing and dropping my girl off in town I wandered down to Southend seafront to take some photos.  The tide was high (very), the sea was choppy, and the wind was blowing hard off the estuary.  It was really rather nice and I spent …

Designing Resilience in Public Spaces

Peter Hawkins – Counter Terrorism Security Advisor (CTSA) Supervisor in the Protective Services Command of Norfolk Constabulary - gave an excellent talk on designing resilience in public spaces last night (4th November).  Given to a joint audience of civil and structural engineering members of ICE and IStructE, the event was held at the usual ICE …

Braintree BMX

This afternoon I traveled north to Braintree to go and watch some BMX racing.  This was partly as a friend was taking part as she and her lad are members of the club there.  I don't recall ever going to watch BMX racing although I'm sure I did watch some at the 2012 Olympics on …

Maldon Prom parkrun

Yesterday morning I took a short drive from Southend to Maldon to attend Maldon Prom parkrun.  Not to run but to take some photos.  Regular readers will know that I like to photograph local running events partly as I like photography and partly as my knackered old legs aren't up to running anymore.I have photographed …

Dawlish Railway Repairs – ICE Essex Lecture

Last week I attended the first Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Essex Branch lecture of the 2014/15 session at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Chelmsford.  The subject was the Dawlish Railway Repairs and a very interesting and informative lecture was given bu Emma Lewis of Network Rail and Jon Powell of consulting Engineers Tony Gee …