Grand Designs and holding it together

NEWS FLASH Thursday evening

The College of Arms is on fire:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5669426.ece

Hope to be back later, with a longer blog, in the meanwhile - a discussion going on here:

http://conservationofficer.blogspot.com/

which now includes the invisible neighbours from the programme.

(from which here's a live link: http://www.windmillworld.com/uk/mockmills.htm )

and

Anorak Corner (the first in a series)

Thanks to Roger for sending me his flickr collection, really interesting pics, delightful buildings, great and small, all held together with a variety of wall ties (one of which is pictured above).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/world_of_wall_ties/pool/

Sorry Hazel, see comments from Interlude, can't find the original version of Potter's Wheel, although a few spoof and rather rude (can't watch those before the evening watershed) versions exist:



Here's one of my favourites:



Nem