Mostly lemon based

Day: October 2, 2005

  • Ignore your voters, go on.

    The closure date’s been set.

    Bristol North Pool in all it’s Edwardian splendour will be closing at the end of the month, assuming that Bristol’s neglectful city council get their way.

    Some, please, buy it and keep it open. I hate modern pools, they have no personality, no style, and no heart. This place is the heart of Bishopston, it’s the second most fucking popular pool in Bristol, it’s been open since 1922 and they’re going to destroy it.

    Pointless facts

    – During winter the pool used to be boarded over and used as a Cinema because the council didn’t think people’d want to swim in winter.
    – It’s the original home of Bristol Swimming Club; who were founded at the pool. They had 290 members in 1927.
    – I learned to swim in the pool, and I love it.
    – It’s proper deep, not piddly little just over your head deep.
    – Everyone I’ve met there loves the damn place.

    I now hate Bristol City Council.

    That is all.

  • Exhausted

    [Both in the awful pun sense and the accurate description of the car sense]

    Yesterday I spent the day with John (and for the first half of the day) Nikki, attempting to hand-build an exhaust to fit my beloved Rebecca’s LCB Manifold.

    See, I could just about justify the money for the front part of the system, the LCB frontpipe; but the cost of the whole system was more than I felt I could justify; especially with that Janspeed silencer and a stainless steel back section kicking around in the garage.

    So, we set about creating an exhaust on Friday, using the LCB front pipe and a sleeve to get that to join to the Janspeed silencer. It looked like, with a bit of a gimp on the angle the silencer went in, we should be able to join it to the backsection.

    It went a bit pearshaped though (more…)