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A Secret Urban Forest
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In the week of Chelsea Flower Show, here's a film made a couple of miles
away: of the 450 trees gone wild in the largely abandoned Heygate Estate in
the El...
Investments in art and culture
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Carla Passino wrote in Country Life (13th March 2013) about the Knight
Frank’s Luxury Investment Index. Her conclusion is that passion-driven
investments h...
This Blog Is Closed
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Due to irreconcilable differences between the editorial staff of Chtodelat
News and the Chto Delat work group, this blog is closed until further
notice. Ar...
Houses for artists
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So we finally set out for west London and a short tour of the buildings of
Charles Voysey. Voysey is most famous of course for his long,...
Community Mapping in the Old Town
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Community mapping is becoming recognised as a valuable tool for community
engagement. SOOT first undertook a community mapping exercise as part of
the acti...
Ink stuff
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It's been a while. Sorry about that.
There are a fair few pieces by me on newsstands at the moment, although I'm
afraid not many of them are available onli...
Gate 81 Preston Bus Station
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The Gate 81 project hacklab/workshop/charette has been arranged for May
2013. Link: Gate 81 Hacklab Email for info@gate81.com if you are interested
in taki...
Scotland
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Before I left for the trip a Scottish person from the office told me to
watch Local Hero, read Kidnapped (while on the trip) and enjoy strolls
along the hi...
Summers on the Estate
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One striking thing about the East End of London is how much it as
physically changed form in the last 20 years. At around the time that the
warehouses and ...
What is really happening at Preston?
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In a situation where benefits are being decimated, estates cleared, the NHS
privatised and urban planning regulations torn up, it's easy for
politicians ...
The ultimate approval
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[image: Bill Clinton can't wait to play golf at Menie!]
You know, when I heard the other day that former president of the United
States of America Bill Clin...
Where Thames' smooth waters glide...
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http://hidefwallpaper.org/sea_wallpapers
I have *@BillEllson* to thank for this; on Twitter he called it
"pretentious guff" and I wouldn't dare argue... ...
Oh dear...
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The backlash has begun..
http://www.sevenstreets.com/city-living/feature-city-living/total-eclipse-of-the-heart-mann-island/
http://www.independent.co.uk/ar...
Made Men
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Having had a bit of time on my hands I took the recommendation of watching
the American drama ‘Madmen’ It’s based in the late 1950′s, early 1960′s in
an ad...
Where did the time go?
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Ye gods, it's 11 months since I last wittered. Eleven months in which the
conservation project in West Wales has come to an end, and with it the
agonies of...
Death by shooting... and a Lorimer church
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Plumpton, a small village in Cumbria, has this intriguing memorial stone
set in the wall. I took this pic in 2005, when it was in a fi...
ditch The Block
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OPEN Shoreditch member Jago Action Group is taking up arms against the
gross over development of the Huntingdon Estate, the light industrial
estate borde...
Tumbling into tomorrow
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Recently, an image or two on the things tumblr set off some kind of
internal chain reaction, causing the archive to get thoroughly dug over by
a host of si...
Tailoring a pair of men's trousers
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August 13, 2010
I have made a pair of curtains. I have made my wife a dress (more on this
later). Now for a pair of trousers for myself.
Finding comfortab...
THE BLADE BUILDING, READING BY SHEPPARD ROBSON
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Oh god, it's an icon! Just when you thought it was safe to reenter
architecture on the grounds that noone can afford iconic office buildings
any more, the...
Time flowing like a river in flood
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I've decided my life is too boring for a blog.
I should be getting the house done so I can move but the energy isn't
there, nor the cash.
I am spending too ...
Cider press conservation
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We had great fun fixing and pressing into service an antique cider press
last weekend.
Next weekend we hope to get up to 100 gallons of cider on the go.....
The Joy of Listing - Revisited
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(c) Ruth Sharville, http://www.geograph.org,uk/ , licensed under a
creative commons licence.
My very first post was about the evil machinations of Plymou...
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