The work men have been sorting out the water falls tunnel which they have been putting metal joist things in to keep it from collapsing. The two guys doing the waterfall look remarkably like they belong in either the RSM or the caving club or as is often the case both!
I asked them if I could come down and take photos - they put a step ladder in the dry water fall for me but I didn't realise (yes I know its a large thing not too notice but then this is me) and clambered down the actual waterfall - when I say dry I mean that there isn't the normal cascade of water flowing down it however most people would consider it actually quiet damp still.
Here are my photos of the tunnel.
The tunnel is at least 400 yrs old and is basically dry stone walls with stone slabs on the top - one of these ceiling stones appears to be a urinal - or so I am informed and is probably Roman in age (or though that is quiet along time period in the UK). Most roman sites in the area where canabilised for other local structures so this seems quiet likely. I actually went straight past the slab as it is in the ceiling and even when they first pointed it out to me without saying why the rock was special I got side tracked by calcified worm casts on its side :/
I did however then see that the rock was cut and the interesting funnelly bit i spotted by myself!
I am quiet excited by this as its sort of like having Time Team in my back garden, but it is a bit laughable that the one really old thing we have (thats of human origin before any of you remind me about all the fossils we have in the garden!) just so happens to be something that men relieved themselves on about 2000 yrs ago :/
I had to take a photo of these nobely calcite deposites 🙂 There where also lots of the little coral type growths that I orinial mistook for teeth when I did the work in the anthropology lab in paleo! (I can not spell the word so it is staying abbreviated but its the place with the fossils at the Natural History Mesuem).
Also I just had to take a photo of this being a geologist. The urinal pics where all taken in a cramped space with me having to lay down on my back so apologies if they are wonky angles!
I really really enjoyed this as I got to where my hard hat for the first time since Kin Loc Leven! But it did unfortunatly cause my pelvis to remobalise for three days :/
Within the last week we have had high winds, snow that blanketed the landscape and and more torrential rain - we are once again on flood warning etc...
The water has been divirted from the waterfall yet here you can see it looks worst than normal with the amount of water running through it :/
the diverted water is running straight into the trout pool behind us - from the pictures ypou can see just how much it is churning:
the levels are really up again resulting in the river bank dissappearing under water - believe it or not there are flood defenses under there diverting the river :/
Gilbert Barbaras little statue that sits in the water cress pond has already been washed away and we are hoping is once again lodged in the weir.
The gully where the water came through to flood us before is still holding up but we are hoping that the work thats been done in the waterfall tunnel is going to hold - the tunnel is now held up with metal joists but as they said we almost lost the thing in the last flood - we are a bit worried as if it collapses we are lickily to loose our garage and possibly the end of our house :/
A new stream trickel has also started up around the side of the Mill - not sure it really comes out in the photo but this didn't happen last time.
Sigh - the last record of flooding of the Bakery is 1750 I think my bad luck field has kicked in here :/
Computers are famed for harbouring bugs, and the high rate of failures in software compared to other industries is a constant cause of embarrassment. I'd like to explore why this is, with an example. And what we might be able to do about it.
Note: Although a lot of the details of the remainder crash are unfortunately very technical, I have done my best to explain things in a way that lay people should be able to make some sense of. However, some things would require a lot of background information, in which case I've just plowed on without explanation. So if you come across things that you don't understand, feel free to skip ahead a bit; you shouldn't lose too much.
Read more »
Mum's radiotherapy started on Thursday, I went to see her on Saturday which was the first bad day for her, the pain from the radiotherapy which is being done from an angle from her back to incorperate her lung just incase, had kept her up all night. She obviously is very tired and that is due to get worse, she will be going everyday for about six weeks. I'll keep you all posted as to how she is doing.
Barbara (Als Aunt) showed me an article that she thought might interest me from the Financial Times it was basically about people pushing their children to succeed and giving two year olds after nursery classes and stuff. It generally made me feel really sorry for the kids - then it went onto how one thing thats seen as a major handicap at school appears to give the suffers a head start in the 'adult world' ie dyslexics appear to make good business people (I would have written ontrapaner but I funnily enough cant spell it and I'm pretty sure it begins with e - oh well).
According to the article about 30 % of people with successful businesses would describ themselves as dyslexic (not sure what the result would be if they tested them all but it might be interesting). The thing is people seem so suprised by this when really what else is going to happen to someone who is generally above average intelligence but who is unlickely to get far or even get (due to application forms and tests etc...) a normal job?
The options are start your own business, become a criminal or both. I'm not being mean here about the criminal stuff studies showed in the early nineties (I think do your own research) that alot of those in prison for organised crime where showing dyslexic, ADHD or dyspastic tendencies - at the time I was really worried about this as I wondered if it ment I'd end up a criminal - organising crimes takes brains as does running a business.
The other thing with trouble shooting and finding new ways of doing things is that lots of dyslexics have to do this in their every day life - ALL THE TIME. We dictate rather than write things down oursleves, we colour code things in order to remeber what we are doing etc... this skills are exactly what you need to start a business (ok well perhapse not the colour coding but hey it still gets used alot). And hiding the fact you have difficulty with spelling etc... becomes a new and powerful tool when turned to marketing.
What I'd like to see is how large the data set was for these results and what exactly was asked - also does it tally cross culterally or is it limited to say the USA and the UK? The other intreging thing I noted was that the two men they had interviewed both had alot of children - 6 and 9 each - did the writter of the artical do that on perpose and if not do sucessful dyslexics have a tendency to have large familys in a society where successful people have fewer children normally?
Building Maintenance, Jean | sarah | 
Wed 16th Jan 2008 10:54 pm | 
Comments (0) 
Subscribe