Three days off!
Well,I’m coming upto the end of the working week. I shall soon have the best part of three days to do whatever I want with. I believe I shall cut the grass for thefirst time this year, as the dandelions are starting to come through in abundance. The hedge hasn’t quite recovered from the butchering I gave it last year, so the trimmer will stay where it is for a bit.
I am also planning to use just-eat.co.uk for the first time in the very near future, as I fancy an indian, hate talking on the telephone, and also might do a review of the service. I’ve heard from a guy at Employment Palace that it’s actually a good service and it works… of course, the only way to find that out is to actually give it a go myself.
I was meant to give it a go in my nine days off, but there wasn’t a night where I actually fancied it, or had already eaten.
Some of you can’t have failed to notice the drastic hair cut I had on Monday. It’s the shortest it’s been since I was about 12. I’ve decided that because I’m offically going bald, I might as well look the part. In fact, I’ll post a photo…
Yes, I’m holding a streetlight, which is, of course, is a GECZ5590. What, you mean you didn’t know that? Shame on you. Of course, the reason for this is that I visited Andy The Iridium Fan’s streetlight collection again. It’s grown once again since I was last there in about June or July The new acquisitions include an Urbis ZX4. Yes,those are the huge, insanely bright lights you get on motorways. I think they are about 6 feet long, and with 2 250-watt sodium lamps in them, have enough brightness to quite literally blind you if you look at them close enough. In fact, it’s behind me in the photo I’ve posted above. I tried to get a brightness comparison between that and a standard energy saving light…
I love how utterly insignificant the standard household bulb looks!
With the weather actually starting to get nice again, and, dare I say it… warm, I might actually get out and take more photos. Hopefully, I’ll get the chance to photograph some nice sunsets if this ash cloud doesn’t shift. It seems odd, but with the fact that the UK is a no-fly zone, you notice the fact that there’s no vapour trails in the sky.
Well, this has been an utterly drab posting, but I thought I’d better update, as it’s been a few days. I’m trying to update this more than I have done over the past couple of months.
Right, the F1′s about to start anyway… Come on you car drivers!
April 18th, 2010 at 7:22:00 pm
I like the way you captured the ginormous ZX4 blinding the household 8w lamp! By the way I found a third Urbis Z1 in Owton Manor.
April 18th, 2010 at 11:22:30 pm
Ah, cool, where abouts? I’ve only ever seen the Kingsley Avenue one and the other one up Owton Manor. I take it you have pics?
I wonder if these Z1s are the ones that once lined the way to the Park Road entrance to the shopping centre years ago before it was built over.
April 21st, 2010 at 4:53:10 pm
I do indeed have a picture but I have forgotton which road it is on. Idon’t recall seeing any pictures of them near Park Road.
Today three columns on the Easington/West View Road roundabout were removed including that council green one supporting the 135w SOX Eleco GR150 of which I saved the Philips lamp and ballast both new. The new lanterns are flat glass Urbis ZX3s of the 250w type. I have a selection of photos.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:35:57 am
The Z1s weren’t at the Park Road entrance of the shopping centre for very long, hence the likelihood that they were reused instead of binned.
I haven’t seen any pictures either, but I do remember them being there, possibly early-mid 90s. The ZX3 you got from the nearby carpark was dated 1995? That’ll probably be about the time they were taken down, before they built the extra section onto the shopping centre.
This would also fit in roughly with the time that the lantern on the concrete column in Kingsley Avenue got replaced with the Z1.