Musings from the Merse
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
WINDOWS 06
Suddenly the unfriendly blank wall of the new village hall has broken out in a smiley rash of new windows. It makes such a difference to the view from the E2134-Kirk Lane. It has been quite an interesting lesson in modern building techniques whereby you erect a blank wall and then knock bits out of it for the windows. As previously reported it will be the loos and the post office which will be on the E2134. It would be nice if the windows in the loos had one way glass so as you could admire the hustle and bustle of Kirk Lane whilst doing your business in decent privacy. This has its dangers. I think it was at Birmingham University in the 1960s when a new Female Halls of Residence had one way glass installed in the 'Ablutions Block' but the wrong way round. It was unnoticed by the girls for nearly six months but not by the male students who discovered a new exciting dimension to Bird Watching. Anyhow some spoilsports spilled the beans, alerted the Vice Chancellor (who would soon have been in danger of living up to his title) and two way frosted glass was hastily put in at enormous expense.
Comments:
Cognescenti who have watched the construction even closer than me say that in fact the blank wall did not run the whole side facing Kirk Lane and as it was being extended towards the front of the building window holes were actually inserted from the outset. Fair enough but the approach that I may have mistakenly described sounded much more fun.Oops! Forgotten a window: Sledge hammer please.Bang! That should do it.
Your story of B'ham university reminds me of taking a nature break at the base of the CN Tower in Toronto... Standing there taking my ease, and I suddenly became aware that the street outside was clearly visible. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZP. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (run outside)
Of course it was one way glass too.
Of course it was one way glass too.
Now there's a thought. Is it too late to have one of these-say outside the new hall with a 360 degree enthroned view. Useful for people caught short on their way to Church and more striking (and more useful)than the rather boring benches at unstrategic sites througout the village.
Hmm, you complain about the lack of windows and windows magically appear. If the architect really is reading, why not get a bit more ambitious in your requests? A cupola? A clock tower?
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: 6:52 PM
A see out of loo in shining black perspex and a small 9 hole golf course around the perimeter will do me fine. Modest needs me.
I was recently reading your blog, and I thought...
i would like to just say im not educated as your good self but your comment on the village hall on wed 8th march was ignorance personified the blank walls were never built then bits knocked out to form windows . the walls were built to cill level all the way from end to end then scaffold erected then on the next level the windows appear to the layman thank-you for reading this . the buiders at the hall.
I am not 100 percent convinced of the genuineness of this message(slightly edited) as received via e-mail but I accept the point none the less. So there, disgruntled commuter, goes the clocktower, the cupola and the see out loo
i would like to just say im not educated as your good self but your comment on the village hall on wed 8th march was ignorance personified the blank walls were never built then bits knocked out to form windows . the walls were built to cill level all the way from end to end then scaffold erected then on the next level the windows appear to the layman thank-you for reading this . the buiders at the hall.
I am not 100 percent convinced of the genuineness of this message(slightly edited) as received via e-mail but I accept the point none the less. So there, disgruntled commuter, goes the clocktower, the cupola and the see out loo
Well the Builders, if that is who they are, have come back with this:
thank you for your reply and i would like to invite you down to the site (not officially) to explain the ins and outs of doors and windows no pun intended . The builders
Huttonian will send a plenipotentary (unofficially) for an indepth (no puddles intended) briefing and will be able to report with more authority thereafter
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thank you for your reply and i would like to invite you down to the site (not officially) to explain the ins and outs of doors and windows no pun intended . The builders
Huttonian will send a plenipotentary (unofficially) for an indepth (no puddles intended) briefing and will be able to report with more authority thereafter
