Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Found in the Attic, from 1795

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(As usual, click to embiggen.)
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Going Undergound.

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This week, and last week, I've been busy with a bit of building maintenance. We have a building, under which was rumoured to be a ba...
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Friday, 5 February 2010

Beneath a Kiln.

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Page 6 Factory Building Studies, Sites and Foundations, HMSO, 1960 To understand this, you really need to know a little about how brick ...
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Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Monkey Business.

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Gary Rith has been hanging wit' the monkees recently. His new partner in crime is a sock monkey called Georges Le Soq . Little does he...

Ever Clicked Something by Mistake?

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-And lost an age's worth of thoughts down the plug-hole? It happens to me all the time. Some of you may have noticed that I seem to do ...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Isaac Guillory

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The Blog Archipelago, Revisited.

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Reading, today, the words of Jim Gottuso whose blog is one year old, on this day, I was musing about blogs and bloggers, how Jim and other...
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Monday, 1 February 2010

Ring, Ring...

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Mr Soubriquet does not wear jewellery. No rings, nowhere. But he's intrigued by this: Grit in the Gears might be a problem, but if h...
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