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Showing posts with label church. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

nissen hut in hadfield



Just an amazing thing, a building adjoining the methodist church in North Road. Bill Meyer told me nissen huts were known in the US as quonsets. As so often happens I marvelled at this new word I had never seen before and then when I got the program for a conference I am attending/presenting at, at the end of the week noted that one of my fellow speakers was talking on the subject of 1940s quonsets.

gillard: a post from fifteen years ago

I have to say that every time there is a piece of Gillard news I get depressed. I turn it off if I can. I think a lot of the reasons she is ...