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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: Where I live

12 January 2009

A winter’s walk along the canal

I had to go to Screwfix to get some DIY bits, and the most direct route is along the tow-path of the Grand Union Canal. Needless to say I took the camera, and it took me a little longer than expected.

Photoblog, Where I live, 1 Comment
4 June 20087 June 2008

Shedcam – building a new summerhouse

This week sees a week off work building a summerhouse to replace the old shed. It’s a small garden (c. 10m x 5.5m) so the aim is to make it all rather more courtyard-like, with a small circular lawn in the middle. To capture the ‘before, during, and after’ (and Read more …

Plants & gardens, Where I live, 1 Comment
15 January 200715 January 2007

Cliff Richard, Druids, and the Archbishop of York

These may appear at first glance to be odd bedfellows, but they all seem to share the dubious honour of having received a letter from a Mr Morello, who I have just discovered is a near neighbour of mine. What he does is not something I can easily explain, so Read more …

Silly bits, Where I live, 1 Comment
12 January 200716 January 2007

Blowing a hooligan

It turned out to be a bit breezy in london yesterday. A driver was killed by falling tree, Kew Gardens shut to the public over safety fears, and bicycle journeys were taking either half the time or five times as long, depending on which way you were travelling. By coincidence Read more …

Plants & gardens, Plants in the news, Where I live, No Comments
4 October 20064 October 2006

The Law South of Ealing Broadway

Another laugh or cry experience, The Magistrate’s Blog, otherwise known as The Law West of Ealing Broadway, gives an amazing perspective on human life, as seen through the eyes of one branch of the Law. It is one of those sites I find myself dipping into on a very irregular Read more …

Where I live, No Comments
29 September 20063 October 2006

Friday dilemna – stay in, or go out?

Drama hit the tranquility of west London last night when Fire sparked overnight evacuation in South Ealing, just down the road from me. The immediate and real drama was for those in the vicinity, including a few friends of ours, who faced a sudden evacuation in the middle of the Read more …

Silly bits, Where I live, No Comments

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