It is long overdue that I do a quick blog about the makeover that our small back garden had in September last year. It has now bedded in and is looking good so now is a good time. The work was done by local company ARC Landscapes run by Mitch Clee. We are very pleased …
Village Green 2013
A few words, pictures and videos about my experience of Village Green 2013 in Chalkwell park last Saturday 13th July. Village Green is a free music, arts and craft festival held in Chalkwell Park in Southend and organised by MetalCulture. It was a fantastic day on one of the hottest days of the year and …
Southend Half Marathon 2013
It was the the annual Southend half Marathon today in aid of Havens Hospices. I was not running on this occasion but plenty were - including many twitter friends of mine - and so I decided to do as I often do and go down to support and to photograph. As I have mentioned on …
Venture Offshore Cup – Powerboats passing Southend Pier
Having picked this up off twitter somewhere last week myself and my lad and his mate walked to the end of Southend Pier to watch Ocean Class powerboats pass by as part of the Venture Offshore Cup powerboat race Prologue. I've not been down our pier for years so it was a good opportunity to …
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Simple Minds Southend April 2013
Simple Minds rocked the Southend Cliffs Pavilion last night and they were brill - far better than when we last saw them in Southend 4 or 5 years ago. Carry on reading for a brief review, some photos and vids. Doors opened at 7:30. We arrived at 7:45 and queued to get our obligatory wristband …
Southend Bridge Replacement
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 …
Southend Cliff Stabilisation
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 …
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 …
