Having been out of touch with the outside world for some time, j3bu kindly dragged me out of my house and into some smelly holes. On the cards for the day were Sidedraught Induction, The Works, Processor and a mysterious one which, for 6 months, was named "Jay's Culvert" as I found it on Google Maps and at the time didn't know it was Supercharger.
Headed straight to Gorton for Supercharger and it was long, straight and boring, except for a strange bit of wood in the middle of it. I imagine one of the more knowledgable members will be able to shed some light on it. There were some excellent ducks quacking away and divebombing themselves outside the 2nd culvert, but sadly no pics.
Lovely bricks:
Then it was a quick walk through the park up to Sidedraught Induction. I wasn't a particularly big fan of this one due to the poo-ey smell and the outrageous amount of particles in the air. I do have a certain taste for poo smells now though. My camera couldn't/wouldn't autofocus in the dark and my torch had mysteriously died (only to resurrect itself later on in the works, precisely at the moment that j3bu's torch had died) so I only got one shit photo, out of focus and 'ruined' by j3bu walking in front of it:
On the way out of here we managed to see a lovely little baby rat swim its way across the water and hop along the wall. We chased it like big children, splashing away in the debris.
After a brilliant ASDA lunch was The Works, which from the pictures I had seen I was looking forwards to. Lovely, lovely brick. I loved how seemingly over-engineered it was, with ornate brick and stone when something more crude would have sufficed. There were far too many flies in here for my liking.
And that's it! Lovely day out. A return trip is needed to The Works as j3bu managed to pop his waders. As a result of this we didn't do Processor, but that will wait for another time.
Headed straight to Gorton for Supercharger and it was long, straight and boring, except for a strange bit of wood in the middle of it. I imagine one of the more knowledgable members will be able to shed some light on it. There were some excellent ducks quacking away and divebombing themselves outside the 2nd culvert, but sadly no pics.
Lovely bricks:
Then it was a quick walk through the park up to Sidedraught Induction. I wasn't a particularly big fan of this one due to the poo-ey smell and the outrageous amount of particles in the air. I do have a certain taste for poo smells now though. My camera couldn't/wouldn't autofocus in the dark and my torch had mysteriously died (only to resurrect itself later on in the works, precisely at the moment that j3bu's torch had died) so I only got one shit photo, out of focus and 'ruined' by j3bu walking in front of it:
On the way out of here we managed to see a lovely little baby rat swim its way across the water and hop along the wall. We chased it like big children, splashing away in the debris.
After a brilliant ASDA lunch was The Works, which from the pictures I had seen I was looking forwards to. Lovely, lovely brick. I loved how seemingly over-engineered it was, with ornate brick and stone when something more crude would have sufficed. There were far too many flies in here for my liking.
And that's it! Lovely day out. A return trip is needed to The Works as j3bu managed to pop his waders. As a result of this we didn't do Processor, but that will wait for another time.
