Old Buildings are hard to draw

I’ve recently done some CAD work for my Father-in-Law who runs Mayflower Homes. The work was the drawing up of both some existing and proposed plans of a large house in London which he intends to buy, renovate and re-sell.

Old buildings are quite hard to draw accurately for a number of reasons.

1. they’re not made out of nice regular bricks; but rather stone of various sizes; therefore walls tend to vary in thickness rather randomly.
2. walls are thicker and so door and window openings are much more complex
3. old buildings have usually undergone various DIY projects which means rooms, layout and spaces are complex. You can see form the image above how the different shaped rooms struggle to fit together.

But probably the most annoying thing when it comes to drawing up old and altered buildings is this: there are far too many doors. Looka t the number of doors in those plans. TOO MANY!!

The Sign of Jonah

One of the things that has taken a lot of my thinking on Jonah is ‘the sign of Jonah’.

The Sign of Jonah is mentioned in three places in the NT: Matt 12; Matt 16 and Luke 11.

Wptogo

Just playing with android app WPtoGo.
I can’t see myself writing extensive blog posts with it – but it works well enought for brief/emergency posts.

New Breed

I had a great meeting with New Breed today. The meeting was partly to talk about their Jump School training which I hope to go on to learn and meet people.

But our meeting was also to talk about a New Breed website. They have kindly let me build them a website – which I’m looking forward to. I’ll be, probably, the biggest website I’ve ever created from scratch and they’ll be loads for me to learn on the way. Here’s my plan/propals for them:

The Book of Jonah

This Sunday I’ll preach at Broadlands Evangelical Church on Jonah chs3-4. I was asked to do a three week series and this Sunday is the last of three. I kind of wish it was a four week series – so I could have dedicated a week to each chapter of Jonah…but never mind.