Project #093 is a Messerschmitt Bf109E3 and is the first model build of the 2021 season. After last year's six kits the plan is to go a couple better this year and reach Project #100 by the end of the year. This will be achievable if a steady pace is kept throughout the year. However, what usually happens is that at some stage of the year a project gets stalled!
Saturday, 30 January 2021
Friday, 29 January 2021
Churches (89) : St Michael, Maxstoke
The parish church of St Michael in the Warwickshire hamlet of Maxstoke dates from the 12th century though the oldest remains are 14th century. The church was established at around the same time as Maxstoke castle and Maxstoke Priory, which is next to the church. Indeed, Pevsner considers that St Michael's may have been the chapel ante portas for the priory [1], in other words a chapel for visitors who were not permitted to enter the Priory.
The church is rectangular with no division between the chancel and nave. The church was made from sandstone. The bell turret is a Victorian addition made from sandstone ashlar.
[1] Nikolaus Pevsner & Alexandra Wedgwood, Warwickshire (Penguin, 1966) p. 350
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Apple beige
Apple Computer attracts the kind of obsessive attention to detail from users and fans which no other computer manufacturer has ever achieved. Let's face it, only Apple could drive someone to delve into great lengths to discover what actual colour the company's earliest computers were. They were supposed to be Apple beige but like everything else surviving examples (like my Apple IIe below - this model was a slightly darker beige than earlier Apple IIs by the way) may have shifted in colour after exposure to light. So, what actual colour was the beige these computers were created in during the late 1970s and early 1980s? The article is worth visiting alone for the photo of the Apple Computer beige touch-up paint jar, that must be a very very rare surviving Apple artifact!
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Golden Age (29) : The Murder of my Aunt
He decides he must kill his Aunt so he can get his hands on her money. He then begins a series of well thought out but ultimately doomed attempts to kill his Aunt. Unfortunately for Edward he isn't half as clever as he thinks he is...
An enjoyable story, if rather odd. It also has a rather interesting twist. Edward is such an awful character it is hard to warm up to him though in the end many things become clearer.






