Re: OT - where there's fire there is smoke :-(

2020-12-08 Thread David Mann
On Dec 9, 2020, at 6:26 AM, John wrote: > I wonder if they could have made the new more earthquake resistant? I'm > pretty sure architects & engineers knew the principles back in the 80s. Yes they did (spurred by the Napier earthquake in 1931*), but the earthquake building standards are more

Re: OT - where there's fire there is smoke :-(

2020-12-08 Thread John
They could have done a better job blending the new with the old. I wonder if they could have made the new more earthquake resistant? I'm pretty sure architects & engineers knew the principles back in the 80s. On 12/8/2020 03:06:23, David Mann wrote: On Dec 7, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Bob Pdml

Re: OT - where there's fire there is smoke :-(

2020-12-08 Thread Bob Pdml
On 8 Dec 2020, at 08:07, David Mann wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: > >> The facade of the church looks as if it might be rescue-able. There is a lot >> of ‘facadism’ going on over here where they demolish everything but the >> front of the building and put something

Top Ten xmas cracker jokes

2020-12-08 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
From The Guardian: 1. What is Dominic Cummings’ favourite Christmas song? Driving Home for Christmas. 2. Did you hear that production was down at Santa’s workshop? Many of his workers have had to Elf isolate! 3. Why didn’t Mary and Joseph make it to Bethlehem? All Virgin flights were

Re: OT - where there's fire there is smoke :-(

2020-12-08 Thread David Mann
On Dec 7, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: > The facade of the church looks as if it might be rescue-able. There is a lot > of ‘facadism’ going on over here where they demolish everything but the front > of the building and put something modern behind it. There's quite a bit of that going