What are your jeans doing today?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Looks great! Funnily, I saw a recipe for it yesterday and wanted to bake it soon as well

[Duke Mantee]

1 hour ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

Looks great! Funnily, I saw a recipe for it yesterday and wanted to bake it soon as well

I ate this in the place it was invented - it’s far and away the best ‘cheesecake’ I’ve ever eaten, and I don’t just mean the original. It’s so easy to make and very very tasty - make a simple fruit sauce for it (raspberries and blackberries, sugar and water) or, even better, have a glass of PX sherry

[Double 0 Soul]

Looks like you've burnt that burnt cheesecake..

[Duke Mantee]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Looks like you've burnt that burnt cheesecake..

Doesn’t it though?

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

Trimming the lawn around the house before the snakes come. 

[pomata]

You guys always inspire me thanks 

[smoothsailor]

Don’t burn it

[MJF9]

A walk around Liverpool... now that I navigate by coffee shops, the parking at the Anglican cathedral was closest.  Never been inside before... and what an impressive structure

Stopped for coffee at Coffi on Pilgrim Street - a street I love the look of - in a refurb-under-way listed old coachhouse 

Nearby Rodney Street

The bombed-out church (WW2 casualty) - now cleaned up and host to events... I used to eat my chips on the steps there after a night on the tiles

Bluecoat Chambers, an arts centre and a great building

Down by the Mersey waterfront

Where a few lads still seem pretty popular

And a lorra lorra laughs with Cilla and my boy

Edited April 10, 2023 by MJF9

[Maynard Friedman]

Great photos @MJF9. Is that bombed out church the one that had the tree growing out of it (on Bold St?). Your link is taking me to an erotic site! :-)

The last time I was in Liverpool (mid-late 90s, I was working in one of the Three Graces (Cunard Building I think) and got the ferry to Birkenhead in my lunch break whilst Gerry & the Pacemakers played on an endless loop and I stayed at the Atlantic Tower hotel. Before that I used to visit my sister who was a student at the University and lived on Katharine Street by Peter Kavanagh’s pub.

This week we’re in Devon, just across the river from Dartmouth. View from our safari tent.

Edited April 10, 2023 by Maynard Friedman
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[MJF9]

17 minutes ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Great photos @MJF9. Is that bombed out church the one that had the tree growing out of it (on Bold St?). Your link is taking me to an erotic site! :-)

View from our safari tent.

Seems like the the bombed out church had a link to the bummed out church bizarrely!!  Yeah it's the one at the top of Bold Street

Great spot in Devon, lovely... you'll have to post a pic of the safari tent for curiosity sake

Edited April 10, 2023 by MJF9

[MJF9]

Brilliant! Looks great there, peaceful. How is the weather? It's lashing down up north

[Maynard Friedman]

Just started raining!

[MJF9]

Leeds Corn Exchange yesterday

[Duke Mantee]

Takes me back - I remember it being (re) opened back in the early 90s

[Maynard Friedman]

5 minutes ago, Duke Mantee said:

Takes me back - I remember it being opened back in the early 1860s

 

[MJF9]

^^ it had been derelict iirc

Most recently the Archives clothes store was there (just gone online) and also All Blues Co (still have a retail outlet there, not sure for how long though)

^ Lol

I remember going to club nights there in the early 90s... what a venue for a night out

Sasha's and Frank Knuckles' sets from Soak there in 1993... who knows if I went

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Me and my jeans are waiting for boarding 

[Maynard Friedman]

Looking forward to those train tracks!

[Bobbo]

Over the weekend we took a mini hike up to an old copper mine a few miles from where I grew up. It was active all the way back in the 1500’s and shut down 1920. 

A surprising large parts of the buildings was still there.

The dog had a great time exploring the ruins. A little too excited.

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Meanwhile we arrived and enjoyed a walk on the shore

[Thanks_M8]

First day of vacay

Waiting for the international drivers license

Now waiting for the wife

Edited April 19, 2023 by Thanks_M8

[beautiful_FrEaK]

2nd day...Beachy Head

[shredwin_206]

working on the Seattle Aquarium Expansion Project for the UA local 32 Plumbers & Pipefitters 

[bartlebyyphonics]

two relatively recent outings:

the airy heights of madeira, w. cognitive dissonance of car park in the sky...

& the aqua-blue wateriness of lac leman

Edited April 21, 2023 by bartlebyyphonics

[Broark]

Haven't been posting much lately, busy focusing on moving in a couple weeks time.
Excited to have a backyard for the pup and some better lighting for fit / fade pics!
So far I've filled up two boxes worth of jeans / trousers alone...

[Double 0 Soul]

I've been digging some earth from one raised section.. and shoveling it to the next raised section.

Exhausting!.. I don't know how Fred West did it?

...also being a kind soul, my (botanist) neighbour Mary has always admired the^ large camellia at the top of our garden so i've carefully excavated under the root bowl and i'm going to plant it in her garden

In the nature of the thread.. i was wearing McCoys 003

I'll be filling the skip tomorrow... eventually i'm going to build a green oak pergola on the top section and a seating area on the bottom section.. i'll try to incorporate those vintage brass flip down seats i reclaimed from that doctors surgery which i used for the narrow boat project.

[MJF9]

A trip to Manchester (on a school night last week ) to see Pokey Lafarge play at Band on the Wall... his betrothed Hamilton Addie made a welcome appearance too

[Duke Mantee]

17 hours ago, Broark said:

Haven't been posting much lately, busy focusing on moving in a couple weeks time.
Excited to have a backyard for the pup and some better lighting for fit / fade pics!
So far I've filled up two boxes worth of jeans / trousers alone...

Good luck with the move and well done on finding an 18 wheeler for your clothes

[Double 0 Soul]

When i got up this morning Lenny and his stoopid mate Monty where both in the hole i dug having a waz.. what the hell! .. it's not a giant litter box.. you're not lions!

Huf! remind me again why we have cats?

..anywho! I got the camellia out.. jeez louise.. the root bowl weighed a tonne but i managed to lug it over their wall and wrapped the root with a garden fleece and wet it down..

Nice surprise for them when they get back tomorrow.. cost you £400 at the garden center

Mr Rubble delivered my skip.. i paid for 5 tonne but they only had 8 tonne.. y'know this karma shit actually f'kin works! 

The difference in price between those sizes is £60 so i gave the delivery dude a few beers..

[Double 0 Soul]

There was a massive downpour yesterday afternoon so i had to bag it off.. this morning my hole was akin to a small pond..

The waterlogged earth now weighs 10x as much!

I had a terrible nights sleep.. my body aches in places i never knew existed.. i'm not used to proper work.. woke up early with a hangover.

Zero ammount of planning went into this landscaping project.. i'd borrowed a spade from my neighbour and an old wheelbarrow from Pat, my mums friend, jesus, it was a piece of shit!.. the bucket detached from the frame after 3 trips to the skip so this morning i went down to work, got some ply and some redwood to make a longer ramp.. also made a ramp to go down the steps from the path to the pavement... swung by Wickes when it opened and bought myself a new barrow.. a Chillington Camden Classic no less.

Pat's barrow is on the left I'll take it to work next week and repair it for her.. at least she can still use it for light gardening work... I didn't really want to buy a new wheelbarrow, once this shiz is done.. the fk am i going to do with it?

Neighbours daughter has been banging out The Doors which has been a treat..

I'm down to the clay layer.. fkin nasty

No wonder underfoot was like Glastonbury

.. I've filled half of an 8 tonne skip today, it doesn't sound like much but i'm digging out solid clay, filling a barrow, walking down the path, through the gennel, down the next path, turn a corner.. down another path, down some steps to the pavement.. up the street, up the ramp and into the skip..

I layed on the grass at 4pm and fell asleep .. the rain hitting my face woke me up.. pfft!

Having a beer.. not drinking from 3pm , i should avoid another hangover tomorrow

Hopefully Hitoshi Tsujimoto doesn't ban me from his Instagram..

My repairs are holding up pretty well

Edited April 30, 2023 by Double 0 Soul