http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress Nothing much to see here Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:33:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the 19th century many town houses were built with a coal cellar under the pavement in front of the house. Coal hole covers are the cast iron plates that cover the entrances to these cellars. Although no longer in use, many still exist and there are some beautiful designs. ... http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2010/03/coal-hole-covers-of-brighton/ Recently I have been taking photographs of street furniture around Brighton, particularly Victorian boot scapers and coal hole covers. When you start looking for them you find them all over the place. http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2009/09/boot-scrapers-of-brighton/ As a teenager in the 70's I went swimming three or four times a week in Stevenage Swimming Pool. In those days health and safety was not taken too seriously, so we had a 6ft springboard, running jumps from a 12ft top board and could play all kinds of games ... http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2009/08/wild-swimming/ This is a photograph of the macropterous (long-winged) form of Roesel's bush-cricket, Metrioptera roeseli, taken near Ebernoe Common in West Sussex a few days ago. This form usually appears in hot summers, enabling the species to extend its geographical range quickly. The species arrived in England in the 1990's, ... http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/roesels-bush-cricket-at-ebernoe/ There are many techniques for putting rounded corners on a box. All of them require some deviation from the ideal of clean, semantic (X)HTML for structure, CSS for presentation and scripting for behaviour. The technique of placing corner images directly in a page goes against the idea that CSS should ... http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/rounded-corners-%e2%80%93-tidy-code/ I will be delivering a 10-week web design course at the CSV Media Clubhouse in Brighton starting February 28th. The course costs £200 and will run on Wednesday evenings from 6pm to 9pm. It is an opportunity to design, build and publish your own website and places are still available. ... http://www.unicursalpath.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/csv-10-week-web-design-course/