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Sunday, 14 June 2009 11:40 |
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The Whitchurch Branch of the Ellesmere Canal ran close to Whitchurch town centre. Today only a short section remains, used mainly for moorings. |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 21:18 |
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The Prees Branch on the Llangollen Canal is today a short branch that leads to Whixhall Marina. It was originally longer, reaching Quina Brook, though like many canal schemes it didn't reach its original goal of Prees. |
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Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:02 |
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The Montgomery Canal has a long straight section, just south of the Perry aqueduct. It then heads towards Rednal Basin. It wasn't always this way though. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 19:57 |
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The Weston Arm of the Montgomery Canal ran from Welsh Frankton to Weston Lullingfields, and was built as part of the Ellesmere Canal. It was originally going to be the main line, taking traffic from the River Mersey at (what is now) Ellesmere Port to the River Severn at Shrewsbury, however like so many canal schemes it was never completed as intended. It ended up being closed in 1919 after a breach. Canal books often make many references to the Weston Arm, but few give it any real detail. After seeing the tiny stub of the canal that remains, I wondered where it went. |
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 11:36 |
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I have recently "inherited" a network which spans several sites. All of these sites are internet connected. All of the real IT infrastructure (i.e. servers) is at a single site. 3 of these sites are connected to each other by VPNs, with a pfSense at each of these sites acting as a VPN endpoint. |
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Friday, 20 March 2009 19:46 |
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Last year we grew tomato plants, ending up with 15 plants and enough tomatoes to keep a small army fed. We ended up giving a lot of tomatos away as we couldn't eat them fast enough! This year we're having a go at two varieties: Gardener's Delight and Hundreds and Thousands. The seeds were sown on 13th March in two seeds trays, which have gone in a propogator on the lounge windowsill. The Gardener's Delight packet had about 85 seeds in, and the Hundreds and Thousands packet had 15 seeds. So far (1 week later) about a dozen plants of each type have germinated. If they all germinate as well as last year's crop (100% success rate), we might end up supplying the supermarkets! So far I haven't worked out what we're going to do with all the plants. Last year's plants went in growbags, but I can't see where we'd put growbags for 100 plants! |
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Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:00 |
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If you want to have a calm, relaxing holiday, get on a canal boat. Just don't plan to do 10 hours a day... |
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Saturday, 17 January 2009 17:54 |
 When we moved to our house just over a year ago, we gained a compost bin. A year on, we generate enough compostable waste that I decided we need more than one compost bin. A trip to Welshpool recycling centre and £10 later, we had a second bin, which went straight in situ. I had a pile of removed turves, leaves and lawn clippings, along with the growbags from last year's tomatos. An hour later, these had nearly filled the new bin. I wanted to relocate the existing bin, so I topped up the new bin with the compost from the base of the old bin, and lifted the bin off the compost pile. Note to self - this is hard work, and quite messy! Looking through the old bin, I was quite surprised to see just how well composted its contents were, with only the top 12-18" looking like they needed a few more months. It also made me resolve to not put so many grass clipping in in one go, as they go slimy and smelly. Putting the compost back in the bin in its new location gave it a chance to get some air, for it to get turned, and for me to pick out some of the sticks that shouldn't really have gone in there in the first place. Now that's done, I think I might have to get a third compost bin... |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 11:50 |
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When I bought my iMac, a year ago, I also bought a new iPod Nano with it. The Nano comes with headphones, but they are really uncomfortable in your ear. So new headphones were required. |
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Friday, 11 July 2008 09:12 |
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I've been lucky enough to stay away from Windows Vista, having moved to the Mac at home. I've had several chances to play with Windows Vista, but I still prefer the look and feel of Windows XP. A friend who is a Vista user recently had to reinstall from scratch (due to a hardware issue, not a Windows issue), and I needed to use his PC (since reading NTFS filesystems on an old hard disk is something Windows is pretty good at). |
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