John Lennon Gets A Building
I don’t know what John Lennon would have thought about this building at Liverpool John Moores University.
But at least it’s an impressive one in a prominent place in the City!
Let’s All Have A Quick Pray
As I left Liverpool University yesterday, I saw this notice on the Foundation Building.
Let’s All Have A Quick Pray
I know they take their religion seriously in the Second City, so to see they provide it at speed didn’t surprise me.
A Cafe In Liverpool
Liverpool generally doesn’t do boring and there is nothing boring about this cafe.
A Cafe In Liverpool
It is actually in the Victoria Building of Liverpool University, which gave red brick universities, their name.
But the interior is a superb example of Victorian excess, in what is now the Victoria Gallery and Museum.
I particularly liked the clock.
The Clock
The food and drink is not too bad either.
Liverpool’s Bucket Fountain
I mentioned this in the comments on an earlier post. So today, instead of going direct to my meeting at the Unversity, I took the Wirral line to James Street station to see the Bucket fountain.
It was actually working, although I have read that normally the water is turned off.
A Sky Satellite Dish Is So Yesterday
I’ve just looked up what football matches, I can watch over the next few days, through my steam-driven broadband, BT Sport and Freeview.
Tonight, BT are showing Wigan, whilst ITV4 is showing Swansea and Tottenham. All in the Uefa Cup. As I’m seeing Wigan on Sunday, as I’m going to see Ipswich play there, it’s rather a no-brainer, which matches I’ll watch.
Tomorrow, I’m busy in Liverpool, but the only match is on BT and it’s a German one. I’m not that sad yet!
Saturday, BT are showing a Premier League match, but as it’s Norwich, I assume they are going to pay me to watch it! Later I might want to watch Fulham on Sky, but obviously I can’t!
Sunday has some good matches on Sky, but I’m on the train going to Wigan and back to watch Ipswich. At least Virgin’s trains are higher up the speed and reliability scale compared to their broadband.
So BT Sport’s deal of free football with broadband, is equivalent to a supermarket giving away burgers made of horsemeat. It may look good, but it’s not what you want.
I’m almost getting to the point where I put up a satellite dish for Sky.
But that is yesterday’s old technology and I would only rip it out again, when fibre optic broadband became available. I’ve no objections to Sky as a company, as they gave me good service, when I lived in Suffolk.
Fibre-optic broadband would give me everything I want. But when will someone deliver it to me? Or is Hackney too rural for it to be hooked up? On the other hand if Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders can have fibre optic broadband, why can’t I?
BT are keeping the delivery date secret! Which of course means I can’t plan!
I have written to my MP, Meg Hillier, who is also the member for Silicon Roundabout and Shoreditch. She said this in a letter to me.
I am very aware of issues around broadband in Hackney, particularly in the Tech City area around Shoreditch. The growth of these cutting edge businesses in my constituency is an exciting addition but I am very concerned that the infrastructure to support their tech needs is not in place.
She obviously has more clout than any Hackney resident, so if you have a desperate need for fibre-optic broadband, I’d send her an e-mail. The best way is to use WriteToThem.
Some Can Do Customer Service
i returned back today from some shopping and found the tickets I ordered yesterday from Ipswich Town on the mat. And then after I’d been in for a few minutes, a courier delivered some Coagucheck strips from Roche, that I’d ordered from their web site on Sunday.
I’d also had a good shop, getting the cord trousers, I wanted for the winter, to replace the ones of the same make, I bought over twenty years ago. They’re still the same size.
Kings Cross Square Is Nearly There
I took these pictures recently and it looks like the opening date of the 25th will be met.
Although there is nothing as a certainty in construction, where completion dates are concerned.
Am I Illiterate?
In The Times today there is a section called “The 25 Books You Should Read”
I’ve read just one; Pride and Prejudice. And that was for my GCE O Level!
So am I Illiterate?
Do We Put Our Heating On At The Right Time?
I have been puzzled, why after C died, I started to develop hay fever like symptoms. I blogged about it first here in April 2010, which was before I had the serious stroke.
I have just read this thoughtful article on the BBC entitled “Is It Too Early To Put The Central Heating On?”.
i asked someone who knew us well, and they said that the house was always very cold.
Now both C and myself, were brought up in cold houses, with perhaps hers a little bit warmer than mine because she was down in the valley at East Barnet and I was on top of the hill at Cockfosters.
When I met her, she had the worst chilblains I’ve ever seen. They disappeared fairly soon afterwards and she always put it down to wearing Scholl sandals. She incidentally wore those virtually until the day she died. I suspect there was not one day in the forty years we were together she didn’t put a pair on. She even drove in them. She always said, I should, as they would keep my feet warm.
But could the death of her chilblains be put down to her not living in her parents’ house any more? She was in a warm Hall of Residence in Liverpool and afterwards we lived generally in warmer housing, until we moved to Suffolk.
My house as a child was very cold and I was always having time off with a hat fever like runny nose. In fact one of my memories is my mother boiling up handkerchiefs on the gas stove for my father and I. He suffered terrible catarrh and was always sucking on dreadful menthol sweets. I remember, he used to keep his garage very warm and I would often go there to talk to him and listen to football on the Light Programme. Did I go because it was warm?
But everything changed when my grandmother died, as my parents could now afford more electric fires and perhaps more importantly, I got the big sunny bedroom at the back of the house. I was also about twelve and could spend more time in the fresh air, when it wasn’t cold.
Over the years in Suffolk, C and I developed our own ways of living with cold weather.
She always wrapped up well, did a lot of exercise and I usually had a fan heater playing on my feet.
I did keep my car hotter than she did. I seem to remember, she adjusted her Porsche to 22.5°C. I liked it warmer.
I can also remember staying in hotels in London several times when C complained very much about the high temperature.
When she died in 2007, I did a lot of things to warm the house up, like putting in extra radiators and buying the thickest duvet I could find. I have since bought a thinner one.
It does seem strange that my rhinitis started about that time.
So it does seem that temperature and humidity, has a lot of effect on my rhinitis.
One thing I’m going to do, is make sure my heating and ventilation is completely and precisely controllable.
Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?
I’m not referring to a lover, but to Romeo’s Gluten Free Bakery that has been coming soon in Upper Street since the Spring.
I was in a shop opposite on Friday and one of the assistants there couldn’t understand how opening a shop could take so long. She also knew the size of the rent, they will be paying, so it looks like this is one business venture that probably won’t get off the ground.
They’ve whetted everybody’s appetite by saying what’s coming soon and then not done anything. A date on the window would help.
I’ve given up on them ever opening and I’ll stick to my Genius.
The Anonymous Widower 