21 April 2011

Set up your drill in the middle of my field - I had to borrow a SDS drill from a friend to complete a little DIY job. Luckily, I didn't have to use this evil looking bit!

20 April 2011

Growin' up rusty shack, all I had was hangin' on my back - Sometimes I miss having friends that smoke. There always used to be someone who rolled their own and would give you the empty tins for your shed to store screws, washers, drill bits or any other odds and sods you didn't have a place for.

19 April 2011

When I first met you girl you didn't have no shoes - It's very unusual these days to find an interesting piece of vinyl in a junk shop, but the other day I came across a copy of I'm A Believer by The Monkees in it's original company sleeve. Of course, not many people would want this single for the A side, it's the B side that's of interest. (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone is a great track and quite different to their well known songs. Many people of my age may be more familiar with the version by the Sex Pistols, which again is quite different to a lot of their other tracks.

18 April 2011

No use to no one else, they've all dried up - I found this label during a recent walk along the beach in Ramsgate. From what I can tell it appears to be something to do with fishing boats in the north east Atlantic, but what's interesting is that if you use Google's translation tool to translate the bottom line it reads "sin northeast Atlantic". It's only when you leave the two accents of off the e's in the Péché that it makes sense "North-east Atlantic fisheries".

17 April 2011

Too fast to live too young to die - The Sunday before Easter is the traditional date for the Whitstable Easter Egg Run where bikers from all over the South East meet up in Whitstable and take Easter Eggs to children who otherwise may not receive them. Normally we go to a special school in Canterbury, but this year we went to a local Whitstable school. It's hard to guess how many bikes come along, but I'd estimate that as we rode down the Thanet Way the line of bikes stretched for over two miles.

16 April 2011

You can almost taste the hot dogs and French fries they sell - We took advantage of the warm weather and had a ride out to Eastbourne. As the tide was right out we walked under the pier. Piers are amazing structures, and even more so when viewed from underneath. It's clear to see that a lot of the iron work at the top has been replaced fairly recently, but most of the lower iron work looks as though it could be from the 1870s when the pier was originally built.

15 April 2011

No one I think is in my tree - this may not look very interesting or exciting to most people, but to Lin and myself it's a great sign. It's the first strawberry flower on our allotment this year and it means we will soon be picking those glorious red fruits.