Working from home today so took the opportunity of buzzing down to the seafront to take a nosey at the civil engineering works going to 'repair' and stabilise the cliffs where a major slip occurred 10 years ago. Despite it being rather gray I snapped some pics and later spoke to the Public Liaison lady …
Leigh on Sea Striders 10K
LOSS 10K today. I had entered but decided given that I am doing my first Half Marathon next Sunday and am rather prone to injury at the moment that I would not take part. My place wasn't wasted and I still went down to support and to take some photos - as I like to …
Southend Parkrun
Yay. A Parkrun has started in Southend. It is a Gunners Park every Saturday morning at 9am. A volunteer run timed 5K run with times recorded and posted on the Parkrun website. I missed the first due to injury but went along and took a load of photos. I got along to the second one …
Loft Conversion – Week 07
Good progress on the loft conversion again by Messrs Tabor-Jones Limited this week and the new accommodation is really beginning to resemble habitable rooms now with plaster going on and the windows going in. A few niggles with the boiler but these will get solved I'm sure. The week saw most of the remaining plasterboard going up with …
Loft Conversion – Week 06
The loft conversion continues and week 6 saw the new floor of living space turning from a construction site to almost habitable rooms. Local builder Tabor Jones Limited continue to do a great job. Read on to find out what they got up to this week. A few different things appeared to be progressed on …
Loft conversion
Builders Tabor-Jones of Leigh are making great progress on our loft conversion. Yesterday they started in the rear Dormer and got a fair amount if the structure up. After the builders had left the plumber turned up and worked until 9pm doing stuff so builders could carry on tomorrow. Committed.
London to Southend Cycle 2012
Last weekend was the 2012 London to Southend cycle event in aid of The British Heart Foundation. I had signed up to take part but a heavy cold and associated lack of sleep and training meant I had to pull out. It was a glorious day for the event which made it all the more …
Southend Cultural Centre lands on the pier
A very large floating crane installed a very large building on the end of Southend Pier on Thursday and I almost missed this significant local construction event and I'm not sure why. The building was the new Southend Cultural Centre and it weighed 200 tons. I sort of knew about the project but it was …
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Cancer Research UK Race for Life Southend
My daughter Lizzie and her friend Ellie took part in the Cancer research UK Race for Life 5k run at Garons Park this morning and they both did really well and finished in around 40 minutes. I went along with my wife sara to support and a few of their friends had turned out too …
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Church Road Bridge Demolition – Day 2
I nipped down to see what progress was being made on the works to demolish the old Church Road Bridge earlier. The bridge is being demolished as part of the Sadlers Farm Junction Improvements project and you can read more on my blog yesterday here. It was very cold and very wet so I give …
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