Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

https://www.dublininquirer.com/2018/02/28/event-can-the-cyclist-and-the-rest-of-dublin-city-ever-be-friends/

On the evening of Wednesday, 21 March, from 6:30pm to about 8:30pm, Dublin Inquirer and Banter will present a panel discussion of these issues.

Moderated by Banter’s Jim Carroll, the panel will include:

––Claudine Chen, cycling advocate and a member of the Dublin Cycling Campaign

––Jason Taylor, principal author of the Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets, the government handbook on how to encourage sustainable travel in urban areas.

––A representative of the National Private Hire & Taxi Association

I suspect the quality of these discussions hinge on the authority and independence of the chair. Jim Carroll's certainly got experience, so it could be an interesting night.

nee wrote: »

... I wonder how weird it would look if a 33 year old woman went out and started making a snowperson on her own...:pac:

Probably not as weird as a 49 year old male doing it on his own.

(It's very powdery though - the stuff coming tomorrow is wetter and will roll/stick a lot better).

Dublin Bus have cancelled all services for tomorrow. Where I lived as a child we got a lot of snow in the late 80's early 90's and the busses rarely stopped. Making such a call today is a bit mad I'd have thought.

I'm gonna go out and build an igloo. Use a 10lt bucket like a giant sandcastle bucket and get stacking.

NamelessPhil, who won't be seeing 21 again.

nee wrote: »

LOVE IT!

I shall follow your advice and snowperson tomorrow. It came into lovely snowballs for me earlier.
I made a snowangel
The park is like Berlin at the moment!

Full of Germans?

One of our cats likes chasing snowballs too. The other two are curled up in a ball ignoring the weather.

RobFowl wrote: »

I drove by and even going at 15mph in an estate he missed

15mph in an estate is very reckless. Especially in this weather! Respect our childrens lives!

I used the largest plant pot I could find and a shovel. The corbelling technique is used in the construction of monastic beehive huts and Newgrange passage tomb. I always knew an archaeology degree would come in handy!

It took me two hours and several neighbours took photos. The local small scrotes have trashed it now.

I'll be back out with a washing up basin to create rectangular bricks next time.


All the fun was in the building.

Entrance was west facing, I made sure the back wall faced the prevailing winds. Once all the gaps between the blocks were filled it was pretty good as a shelter.

If it had stayed in place and with more snow overnight it would have looked awesome tomorrow.

NamelessPhil wrote: »

The local small scrotes have trashed it now.

I'll be back out with a washing up basin to create rectangular bricks next time.
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That's what I used back in the 80s. There were some supports in the middle which were later removed once the full arc was complete. People make out like the ancients must have had alien help or something but we figured it out -and without google! I remember it being really quite warm inside.

The bricks that come out of the basins are tapered, which is beneficial if trying to build a sloped wall.

I wondered if it was going to be smashed. Ours was in the back garden because of this and I remember we used to make giant snowballs and roll them down the side passage, smash and reform into the washing up basins, and adding new snow as filler. I remember "stealing" snow from neighbours and being told to ask, they must have been delighted as we cleaned out their driveways. We would even go into their back gardens and clear them out too.