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10 Oct, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Happy clown as a housing aesthetic Image
Yawning teddybear with a witches' hat as a housing aesthetic Image
Can't decide if this is an overjoyed duck or a bemused walrus Image
Yes I *would* like to live in Macca Pacca's head, now that you ask Image
Owlet raising an eyebrow Image
Angry deadbeat Dad yelling you that your tea's on the table and is going to get cold Image
Lopsided chicken has seen something interesting over there Image
Hi Neighbour! Welcome to the neighbourhood! Image
I ain't sayin' nuffink' to nobody Image
This house is whispering a conversation to itself about the neighbours over the hedge Image

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12 Oct
I retweeted earlier about the "Great Michael", a warship launched on this day in 1509 for the Royal Navy of King James IV of Scotland. It's an intriguing tale of national extravagance and the very founding of Newhaven itself. Image
So how did a relatively small and unprosperous nation like 16th century Scotland come to build the largest warship in the western world at the time, and how did it come to be built in a sleepy little fishing village with no previous history in shipbuilding?
The answer lies with this man, King James IV of Scotland. James had a bit of an obsession with building up a navy for Scotland, you might say in modern terms it was a bit of a strategic policy. Image
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10 Oct
Today's auction site artefact is this Basil Spence chair. Not your typical bit of Spencarania! ImageImage
"for H. Morris & Co. Allegro armchair, laminated wood and leather upholstery. In 1947 Morris of Glasgow asked Spence to collaborate on a range of plywood furniture, which was to include his Bambi chair and celebrated Cloud table. The result was the Allegro dining suite"
"awarded a diploma by the Council of Industrial Design in January 1949. In March of the same year it was exhibited at the Glasgow Today and Tomorrow, where it was commended, and an example of the armchair was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York"
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7 Oct
Today's auction house artefact is this Leith Banking Company £20 note from 1825, issued to the payee James Ker
James Ker of Blackshiels esq. was the general manager of the Leith Banking Co. and lived at a fine Georgian townhouse at no. 24 Royal Circus
So it's rather unusual that a note made out to Ker is also signed on behalf of the bank by... Ker! He was issuing his own pocket money (and that's what it literally was, paper money that a gentleman could carry on his person)
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7 Oct
Recommendations needed. Because I decided it would be a great idea to paint the box room black (I stand by that), there is very little reflected light in it. This creates a real lighting problem for VC, which was never in my mind at the time.
There is no natural ambient light in here, the "big" light is insufficiently bright and casts long shadows down the way, and the desk light just oversaturates the skin.
So I need some sort of soft, ambient light to improve VC quality as that's now how I spend my time in here
Or maybe I just appear in all my meetings like this?
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7 Oct
Why settle for a single mansard when you can have a double mandard split across 3 levels?
Built on the site of the Argyle Place Church which burned down in 1974 during renovations (I believe a blow lamp set fire to paint)
I suppose the 7-storey corner tower kind of echoes the former steeple tower, and the dropping roofline too is a nod to what was there before. The dormers in the mansard are actually quite a traditional tenement roof style (balconies excepted!).
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6 Oct
🥁Hold on to your hats everyone. You've seen and you have loved and you have hated the Immensard™ Roof.
It is now my distinct privilege to unveil to you...
The Pansard™ Roof!
I believe this style is called East Coast Vernacular Ugly
"one of three contemporary, spacious and cleverly designed mews houses"
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