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Eels came to London again this week and didn't disappoint. Wearing matching Adidas tracksuits the 5 piece guitar and drum combo lead by the enigmatic Mark Oliver 'E' Everett played a relatively short set mostly from the new Wonderful - Glorious album sprinkled with some tracks from the back catalog. I'm sad to say that due to phone battery …
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Last weekend saw the 130 year old bridge that carries the railway over Southend High Street replaced with a new one in the space of barely two days. This was an impressive engineering feat and a very real example to many people in Southend just what professional civil engineers and engineering companies can achieve. I missed the …
I think it is fair to say that if you are a big fan of Alanis (as I am) you will have really enjoyed her London gig last night but if you were not.... Alanis is a talented Canadian singer with a unique voice who sings rather depressing songs about love and loss. Anger features …
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 …
This morning I took part in the Rugged Radnage 10K. The what? I hear you ask. The RR10K is a small locally run multi-terrain 10K race starting and finishing in the small Buckinghamshire village of Radnage. It was a fantastic event - brilliantly organised and in a beautiful area. Oh and there were hills. And mud. Read …
Hey! I actually did it! And not only did I actually do it but I did it in under 2 hours! I also raised a heap of money for the British Tinnitus Association in the process. Read on for the story of why I did it, why for British Tinnitus for the step by step …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I've been following the progress of the new highrise development at 20 Fenchurch Street aka the 'Walkie Talkie' building for some time having almost been employed to work on the project a few years back. This was just before it was mothballed for a few years. I spent a couple of months working just South of Tower …
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