bikes and things

Or Log Sheets as they used to be called. I’ve just finished all of mine… Never again do I want to fill another one out in all my life.

So 27 x 3 months = 81 months recorded which is almost 7 years of working!

Part 3 has been the focus of my weekends and evenings (sorry Emma) for sometime now. Finally the end is drawing near. On the 31st of July I hand in all my PEDR (log sheets) showing 6 and a half years professional experience and a 10,000 word career appraisal / case study.

Looking forward to handing it all in and getting some time off to hang out with Emma and do things that people should do in London in the summer, you know, eat, drink, be merry, swim in the Lido, go to the Aquarium! I might even dust off the mountainbike and go for a ride with my retired friend the real gent.

Anyway, the countdown has begun… Then there’s only the interview to pass in September! Fingers crossed.

So for the first time in about 5 years I’d say I actually got my hands dirty and made a model! I spent all weekend in work doing it but actually enjoyed it. I’ve forgotten how fiddly 1:200 models are. I’m sure my fingers were slimmer at uni. Fingers crossed it does the job.

Here’s the aftermath…

Well not quite but a few of my site photos made it to an article on the Building Design website.

No credit but never mind. Fame will have to wait a little longer.

After two hideously slow bus rides to Paddington I went to site today with the new tripod and a full bag of photography kit today to take some pictures on one of the projects I’m working on. A number of people said to me “…so are you the photographer then?” Which poses an interesting question really. My response was “…errr kind of”.

I’ve grown up with the idea that you can’t call yourself an Architect until you’re legally entitled to do so and I almost instinctively feel that it applies to photography in a way. I’d certainly not refer to myself as a photographer at all, I just take pictures and obviously enjoy it but I’m sure I’m a long way from the title Photographer. It’s fun working towards it though.

Expert witness lecture today. What I hadn’t expected was having the Construction Act and Statutory Adjudication explained through a play!

Highly entertaining to say the least.

Eugh. Could they have made this any worse?

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From a day out to Oxford, mainly around Paddington Station. Always a good excuse to try and take a few photos.

View over the adjacent stairs on the way to catch the train.