Author Archives: Mycroft

Spring on the Waterfront

The Spring Waterfront festival started today with street theatre, dockwatch, tall ships, steam tugs, canal boats and sea shanties. Jolly good fun. I bumped into Photonutter while I was there, he was kind enough to take a few pictures of more »

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The Wirral Way

We had a couple of days free so we decided to go cycling. We had to rent a bike from Bike Beat for Brox because he hasn’t ridden for over 30 years. Our plan was to do the promenade and more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Them pidgins are up to summat!

Them pidgins are up to summat… They’re organised… I know it… That blue one… I reckon he’s their leader… (Misquoted from Chicken Run) I have made eight polyfoam pigeons for a performance Brox and I are part of next Saturday more »

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More Quackers

Another successful day volunteering in the museum today. My main activity today was making Rocking Ducks out of paper plates, however I also made some cartoon duck cutouts, duck masks and DNA. There were some children there too… they kept more »

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Radio Arduino

  I have just completed my first Arduino Project. It’s pretending to be an Oscar Belle Two Band Transistor Radio (Made in Hong Kong in the early 1960s). What it is really doing is playing 24 music tracks that I more »

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