by admin_deancourt | Sep 5, 2013 | Articles
Reports of youths on the roof of the Community Centre site last night were swiftly followed by a police helicopter overhead. Coincidence it may have been, but make no mistake, climbing on to the roof of the centre is trespass. The excuse of chasing a ball is a...
by admin_deancourt | Sep 4, 2013 | Articles
I like the nuts-and-bolts feeling of prefabricated buildings. I promised to show you the ceiling of the new youth room in the western extension once the webbing was gone. As you will see, it has a distinctly utilitarian feel to it: But then, my ancestors built homes...
by admin_deancourt | Sep 4, 2013 | Articles
These guys are not as fuzzy round the edges as today’s pics might suggest – I’m having trouble with both camera and with Windows (as in computering windows – not building windows) so until Brian of the Court puts his IT skills to work on our...
by admin_deancourt | Sep 2, 2013 | Articles
In the years following the 1950s prefabricated buildings were very common. Well into the present century, the post-war dwellings that were thrown up “just for now” after the war were something like collectors’ items. Even as late as the seventies,...
by admin_deancourt | Aug 30, 2013 | Articles
. . . if you have ignored the instructions: . . . will be to produce a butler genie from the Ali Baba jar . . . . . . because Gordon is busy up in the loft putting in that insulation: . . . and because it’s Friday, I imagine Nick is busy mixing the Pimms. Next...
by admin_deancourt | Aug 29, 2013 | Articles
It used to be called fibreglass, and, living on an island in New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf, I longed to have a fibreglass boat. This lightweight material was the new thing and a dinghy of fibreglass was easier to manoeuvre than a clinker-built one. Not that we...
