Midnight in Cold Blow Lane: October 2010

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Communication Fever

I have started a new Blogspot called Communication Fever. This Blogspot contains Amateur Radio which I have been interested in from about 1979. Loads of Pictures and text. There is a link in the right hand side Sidebar or click on the link here. http://hamradio-g0vph.blogspot.com/ There is a link back to this site.

Oz

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

The shard .....If you get a chance go see for yourself

I am not one for praising big city buildings but the one they are building near London Bridge Railway Station just over the Thames in South London is something to wonder. It is being built on land that is no larger in size than the actual building footprint and it is tall and getting taller. I stood watching the construction on a busy working day and what stood out was the ingenious way they have overcome the limited site of the site so they can operate cranes, external lifts and store and use the normal building site paraphernalia.
The building looks like a radical design and I will try to get some more pics as it progresses and reaches completion. What a project this building is. Designed by Renzo Piano when it is finished it will be the tallest building within the EU.

The Guardian newspaper is concerned that when it is built there will not be many places for bicycles.

A clear blue sky

Shot from a moving bus
As far as I know the first building of this size and
design built in South London, stuff like this
is normally only built in the City.

I have a bit more about this on my page on this Blogspot "Me and stuff and pics of South London"

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Yippee I'm safe

26/3/13

With the David Cameron press law taking up a lot of news print lately I have skipped over it because I found it very boring. I as a Millwall supporter get treated like muck by the press and the media in general but I do not agree with politicians telling us what we can and cannot say and that was as far as my interest went, but today I read a piece of news print that said "Ministers agreed to exclude small scale blogs" They do, do they, well bless them, who do they think they are? They have u-turned over small independent bloggers such as I. That's not the main story here, the main story is that " it's incredible that they tried to push this through in the first place" Under their original proposed press law, this very blog would come under the jackboot of the press-law police, and they say that UKIP are extremists.

Four Blogger OZ

Why four Blogspots? Well apart from the fun of using the links to zip about between Blogspots, I have tried to separate different posts and pages into some sense and order.

7 Windmills is Millwall FC history with some current stuff. Also I have included a post about Amateur Radio to add a bit of me to the Blogspot. I have also added a page about the demise of the South London Pub to add a bit of local social history.

Following Millwall FC was added by me so I could publish my current Millwall posts and pages all in the same place and also so that I could have a Blogspot with Millwall FC in it's title which should help if people are using a search engine to find Millwall FC related sites.

And of course this site, Midnight in Cold Blow Lane which is my Blogspot that has a bit of everything. For those that know Cold Blow Lane needs no introduction, for those don't it is a very famous road in South London which was the home of Millwall FC from 1910 to 1993. Before 1910 their home was on the Isle of Dogs.

Last but not least Communication fever dedicated to Amateur Radio and all that goes with it. This Blogspot is only been set up 23/0ct/2010 so it is new and nowhere near completion.

All the links for them are on this page and there is also a link to take you back here.

SOME OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

1) favourite machine

RJ Mitchells Spitfire

2) favourite building

Tintagel Castle

3) favourite tipple

Kentish Cider

4) favourite food

Pie and Mash, Marmite

5) favourite women

Suzy Creamcheese

6) favourite overseas capital

Port Stanley

7) favourite motorbike

BSA Rocket Goldstar

8) favourite farm animal

Pig

9) favourite ice cream

Mint with Chocolate Bits

10) favourite charities

RNLI and Help For Hero's

11) favourite absolute hero

Nelson

12) favourite past time

Now that's a toughy. It could be Amateur Radio, or watching Millwall play or working on my Blogspots and other computer stuff or maybe down my caravan. Maybe it's with my family on days out or away on holiday. I like to fiddle with my LDV minibus to keep it running smooth and looking neat and tidy.

I am rather keen on watching Discovery channel and similar stuff. I enjoy a long soak in the bath. I have always enjoyed music and always have it on even in the back ground while I watch telly. CONCLUSION: I think it's all of them and some.......not enough hours in the day