Highfield School, a run, and a whoopsie with the camper!

Well its actually going to happen. Highfield School is being flattened and replaced with a brand new spanker. The school is now starting to overshadow the old school and is on 3 stories. Walked round the school on the 4th of May, they had an open day where ex pupils could visit. Spotted a fair number of current students - most surprised to see me there!

Libra - All 12 Signs are on the sides of one of the main buildings
Remarkably good condition. They have been preserved from the elements by an outer
covering of glass. Amazingly it seems that none are damaged!

Looks like a 2 story building - but its not!
Possible just to see the stained glass in the upper lights.
Fortunately or just good fortune the light from outside was balanced by the flash.
There were 2 large rooms that had stained glass in the upper lights.

However I was cornered by Mr Evans the Head. Explained my purpose. Remarked that I had not been able to complete the photos of some of the stained glass. He moved curtains for me. He did seem surprised that the Roll of Honour had never been acknowledged as existing. I had hoped that there was one. The school had been built before WW2.The Roll of Honour/Memorial will be on the Memorials blog. There will of course be a Jol's Datastore too.

Its good to hear that the wonderful stained glass and the memorial as well as some of the stone work will be installed in the new build.  A fine chap Mr Evans. I particularly liked the stone door frames too. I think one of those is going to be preserved too



Got the running bug again. Nailed Gollum and felt OK! Sounds pretty painful, but for those who know....

Millie the ancient camper is teasing me again. As soon as I cure the leak in the sink the piggin' thing refuses to pump water so I can really check it. AArgh...

Worked when I camped out.

Its been a while.....

Although lots of effort has gone in to the other blogs this has sort have been neglected.

To Date:    Pretty extensive bike riding to the end of term - about 300 miles in all. 2 runs!

Several memorials visited including the inside of the White Shrine in Blackpool pix below:

Confessional at the south corner of the shrine.

Made my 15th Kiva Loan to this chap:

Henry De Jesus Gallego

Henry is a person who has characterized himself by being very hard-working and always wanting to offer his family a better quality of life. Henry is married and has two daughters, who are one and four. They are his motivation to work hard in his business. He has dedicated a large part of his life to agriculture. His father made a living this way and taught him it at a very early age. Thanks to this, he makes the income necessary to support his home, and he can offer a good quality of life to his family. With the good quality of his crops, Henry has managed to attract a number of customers, and he has guaranteed a good level of sales. With the motivation of taking good care of his crops, Henry is looking for a loan that will offer him the possibility of buying irrigation and fertilizer for his crops.

Click throughs are going well too. This is why Henry gets his loan!

It is also "Spring into Old Hutton" on Saturday - Taking the youngest and his girl friend. They're wild camping afterwards. Having my eyes tested today - new glasses.

Well over 10,000 hits on all the blogs.

However deeply distraught about finding real rust on Millie. Going to be quite expensive. Got great confidence in Ed next door.

The Linux machine has had a grade a wobbler. After substitution I think I narrowed it down to the processor. However running on an old AMD 3000 processor with 2 Gig. At one time my fastest machine! Loaded up Mint LXD and I have to admit for this sort of work it goes fine. It just creeps along doing image work and the big spreadsheet just crumples.

Shortest day of the year!

You can tell its Christmas - its dark - but it means so much more! New beginnings - running again perhaps, looking forward to the Fellsman - my major event of the year - I hope. Not sure I will get many more attempts at this.

Been to the Bike meeting - not one person turned up on a bike!

However made another loan on KIva. This is my 9th loan.

La Esperanza Group

They market and sell milk in Paraguay!

We got a nice letter of thanks from a lady in the Philippines about her loan. - It's great to know we are helping people. I shall save that for another mail.

Thanks to Clixsence providing me with a payout I have passed it along, someone else will benefit.

Perhaps I should make a page in my blog about PTC sites and also traffic generators.

Managed to solve the leaks in Millys roof, discovered the air in the tyres was only 28 psi when should have been 40 - 45., Varnished the floor and started putting the curtains up. Few major jobs to do - like Cambelt and tyres. Next year a good run and possible welding.