Tales From the Building Site

I'm not saying that not a lot happens on my street, but the demolition of a former car dealership and its transformation into a building site has provided a great deal of entertainment over the past few months. Last week, things got even better, with the arrival of the largest pieces of plant yet



These two tower cranes now, quite literally, tower over the street. Indeed, when its jib is raised, the yellow one can be seen from miles away. It is fascinating to contrast the two cranes, the yellow one is clearly of a far more modern design, with a shorter jib which, when not in use, points upward:



The green crane, by contrast, is of the more traditional design, the length of its rigid jib meaning that, when not in use, it is often rotates with the wind:


The two cranes haven't seen much action yet - they're still finishing the foundations- but now that they have arrived, I can feel confident that if the workmen inadvertently unearth a millions of years old Martian spaceship, we'll at least have the means to destroy it, (that's a Quatermass and the Pit (movie version) reference, you were wondering).