Feb 27th, 2008
With our friend Lincoln visiting from oz we took a long weekend and headed back down to the lake district. Rather than focusing on walking we explored lots of the little villages and visited many of the lakes, with some of the most perfect weather in UK Feburary history showing them at their most spectacular.
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Feb 24th, 2008
We tackled our less than complete greenhouse as our first significant project. Once we determined that the extisting frame wasn’t suitable for any of the pile of existing windows we have on site we distmantled most of it down to the floor (above). Having clad the back walls with the tin that had unsuccessfully formed [...]
We had our first proper sticking around snowfall in our new flat! Hopefully the early spring will give us our own Korean collections of photos from our lounge before we move downstairs.
If you have ever wandered what our flat looks like, you can take a sneaky peak here as it is now plastered all over the internets. It could all be yours for a little more than £200 k! The photographs are actually quite poor – they have given our place a delightful eastern european washed [...]
Glasgow’s avante gard noise festival INSTAL, kicked off last night, although the main event isn’t until next weekend. We missed the early part of the evening, but caught a small part of it in the form of an urban sound performance. A couple of guys who call themselves usurper with a variety of sound producing [...]
Last weekend we travelled over to Edinburgh for a taste of culture from the capital. In the morning we followed up our Gillespie Kidd & Coia exhibition visit to take in the Basil Spence exhibition at the Dean Gallery. Another of Scotland’s post war modernists, I found his work much more inconsistent than the Glasgow [...]
Our friend emma grew up in Shetland, a little series of islands lost somewhere between Scotland and Norway. The last Tuesday in January sees the island banish the dark with the Up Helly Ah festival. While we are a long way from Shetland, Glasgow has been pretty murky through most of January, so Emma decided [...]
On our first full day with our new space we attacked the existing mess and got the place looking a little bit tidier. Mike also discovered a love for ‘moving things about and putting them in little piles’. We transformed an old bath into our fire pit to burn a lot of the waste (below).
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