Quality Architecture

Early this morning I trundled around on a bike with a soft back tyre.  The incessant rain hindered my health regime and while just sitting there gathering dust the tyre has slightly softened.  I should fix that - soon.  I attempted to avoid the stiff breeze which naturally was always against me but the route did take me past this!  We could pay a guessing game as to what it is used for but being bright you would soon guess I guess.  This aged town has a few interesting houses, some going back several hundred years, a lot of steady Victorian buildings, and large modern housing estates.  Occasionally objects revealing the past occupation come to light and I wonder if this is one of them?


Today this ramshackle tin hut is used as a garage, often a variety of vehicles can be seen parked on the area to the left of the picture.  Always appears busy when I pass and some heavy vehicles are parked there, possibly he specialises in those.  Down the side you can see what once were windows.  I suspect the building of the housing estate in the fifties led to stone throwing brats in the sixties. This has led to corragated iron over said window and darkness inside since then.  It must be pretty cold working there are the whole front of the building opens up to allow access.  Heaters etc are seen inside when passing but even so.  A real workshop, of the type now outlawed by Health & Safety legislation and rare in large garages.  I suspect the two men suffer as it is their business, and possibly enjoyment also.  Rather akin to places that existed fifty years ago.   


Two strange happenings as I scribbled this tonight.  The first was the deep pink glow in the sky far off.  This is the first sunset noted round here for a while.  The red lurking behind the trees indicates a good spell of sun tomorrow, and we need that in this area.  The other thing is aircraft!  Two friends of mine, an extended family of which I am a part and to which I owe a great deal, are flying off to Thailand via Delhi tonight.  By means of Flight Radar a very interesting device, I was enabled to track that they took off on time.  Ten minutes late on an Indian airline is good going in my book.  Tracking the flight I noticed the flight plan took then right over my head!  Possibly the pilot does not know where India is situated, or maybe it's a woman driver.  Anyhow fifteen minutes after take off I could here them pass overhead at just over 17000 feet and heading for 400 miles an hour.  A strange thought that they were so close, and being father and son I suppose they are close, sitting next to one another I mean.  Twenty years ago the idea of tracking aircraft in flight, (they are at this moment at 33,000 feet and travelling at 570 mph just north of Osnabruck) was laughable, in fact it might not have been available to the public ten years ago!  The wonders of the micro chip and the benefits thereof are many.  As i wake around six tomorrow morning they will be attempting to fight their way through the airport in Delhi to catch their connection.  I might think off them there, if I can keep the eyes open. 



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