Saturday

I spent much of Saturday at the Heritage Centre, chatting with volunteers and getting into the accounts. Rounded the day of with a pint three at the Bakers Vaults then a Chinese meal. On sunday we wnet for a walk along the Mersey.

To be honest this blog is just an excuse to post this picture of Bakers Vaulst, so I can use it elsewhere on the Net.

Blood and Oil

I certainly don't agree with everything stated in the Blood and Oil blog, but it's a more accurate analysis than one generally gets to hear.

Weekend - including Orienteering & the Shallow End

The weekend started with a farewell meal for the Warrington office on Friday night. Saturday was St Wilfred's fair. See The Stockport Trust blog" for more of that.

Sunday was orienteering. It was only my second time and Lan's first. There was a choice of Easy 1.9k kms (following paths) to Hard 5.8 km (cutting across country). Lan insisted on the Hard 4.1 km. The organisers thought we were very brave for beginners. Lan was insistent because 4.1 kms was no distance. (Of course that assumes crow distance run from point to point.

It's all electronic these days. One wears an e-card as a ring. There are 16 checkpoints to find and when found you put the ring in the electronic checkpoint. It gives a breakdown of the run. So I know it took us one hour twenty five minutes. Not very impressive. In fact it gives more details, It took us 27 minutes to find the second checkpoint. It averages out at less than four minutes for everything else.

The second checkpoint was a real problem. We even lost each other for a while, but luckily we both had our mobiles. Lan was keen to do it again though. Unfortunately, we will now have to wait for Spring for the next Deeside Orienteering Club event.

On Sunday evening we went to the Green Room to watch The Shallow End. This was a comedian double act. Some jokes were funny, but it never got pace. I think they were trying to demonstrate they could create and deliver a one hour set that would work as a TV show. But the passing of the dialogue from one to the other broke up the flow. They didn't compliment each other. But Ryan won £20, taking part in a quiz.

New Mills - Buxworth circular walk

We took walk 29 from Walk the Waterways Around Manchester though we skipped Buxworth and Whalley Bridge, to reduce the length of the walk, but it was still about 6 miles. It briefly followed the river, then turned up hill at the 1627 Goytside Farm. The view to the right is of Beard Hall Farm, looking back on our tracks. This was the view over our shoulders as we ate our picnic. See Flickr for a photo from an adjacent field.

At the far end of the walk, we saw Bugsworth basin, originally the terminus of the High Peak Canal and the interchange with the High Peak rail which used to transport 600 tonnes of limestone and lime a day.


Below is a view from the canal, near the end of the walk, back across to Beard Hall Farm.

Fiona, my god daughter's, first birthday

Under the runway

Under the runway
Originally uploaded by Torve.

I am told this photo of mine, showing Lan walking under Manchester Airport runway, became the "Most Interesting" photo on www.Flickr.com for 10.10.05.

Lan & I are going to visit friends midway between New York & Philadelphia. They have provided this useful list of things to do. I was wondering, does anyone who reads this blog have any comments. May be you have other ideas. Maybe you know which of these Lan & I will like. Comments please.
Bill

So long Warrington

We closed up the Warrington office and moved to Altrincham. In September 2003, we had over-flowed our Altrincham offices in September 2003 and moved to an old Oscar-Faber TPA office in Warrington. It was an attractive building, outside and Geogian Grade II listed building. It had the advantage of being 20 minutes from the Business Unit Manager so gave us a bit more independence, but also added 20 minutes to my journey to work.

So I am glad that as we out-grew the Warrington office, we were able to secure larger offices adjacent to the main Manchester office in Altrincham. So I we are back there within bicycle ride distance. We'll have to see if I do manage cycle in a few times a week.

BushMag

BushMag
Originally uploaded by CrackerTed.

let that be a lesson

let that be a lesson
Originally uploaded by robbroccoli.

Woodbank Park - Goyt Farm - Vernon Park walk

We went for a pleasant walk from Woodbank Park, out along the Goyt and back via Goyt Farm, past Bredbury Hall and up Vernon Park.

St Matthews Harvest Festival

Jim and Margaret invited us to the St Matthews Harvest Festival Supper. Here we are pondering over the quiz.

My Other Worlds blog is being over looked at the moment, as I have been getting the Stockport Heritage Trust blog off the ground. This blog is effectively just me at the moment, but I am hoping that other Trust members will start participating. even if they don't I hope they will find the postings and the links of interest and value.

Torve

A none too taxing walk to Taxal

Steve took us on a circular walk from Fernilee to Taxal. This photo is looking back across the Goyt to Steve's cottage.
Bill

Stockport Express honours Stockport Heritage Trust
Bill

Panorama

At last I have Panorama Maker again. When I switch from Windows 98 to Windows XP, recently, I first uninstalled all the software which I thought I had CDs for. But when it came to re-installing, I couldn't find my Nikon CD which came with the camera. I was able to download and install Nikon Viewer and Nikon Editor (two very good pieces of software) off the Nikon website. Since then I have been in frequent communication with their support team for the last 4 weeks. They sent me a CD, but with everything except Panorama Maker on it and lots of useless advice by email. My mum came to my rescue by emailing me her Nikon CD. So that is installed and I am back in action.
This is not the best panorama I have ever done, just my first for two months.
Bill

Amusing.
Bill