Tinpot Alley

If there’s one thing I miss about dear old Blighty it’s the late-night kebab - or key-bob if you happen to be an American - run after allowing oneself to get a little too tipsy. Whether you need counselling in the form of comfort eating after being blown out more times than a worn tyre or just need something to soak up the beer, there’s nothing quite like unknown meat in unleavened bread covered in a bevy of sauces.

Unfortunately, most kebab establishments tend to be, shall we say, a bit cruddy. Obviously most neither notice nor care due various stages of blindness brought about by inadvertently taking jelly shots to the eyeball. However, it’s nice to see that certain kebab joints are bucking the trend with snazzy stainless steel counters:

You can see a few more pictures here.

Not too long ago I did a piece on our sister blog, The Tinbasher, relating to architectural stainless steel buildings.

If you’re interested, you can take a look at my steel building article here.

So how do you like the new site?

And if you’ve never been here before……how do you like the new site?

I’m still playing around with a few things but this is basically it. If you come across anything that isn’t working for you or seems a little weird, please leave me a comment so I can try and fix it.  There are one or two slight differences in the way it displays in firefox and internet explorer, and personally, I prefer the way it displays in ie.

Do have fun with the gallery at the bottom of the page as well as even more fun with the portfolio, which allows you to zoom and drag pictures of a larger size around your browser to compare and contrast things if you want. I’ll be adding more pictures to that as we go along.

Enjoy.

There’s industrial design and designer industrial. I’m quite sure the following stainless steel shower contraption falls into the latter of the two categories.

They almost remind me of some lamp fittings and water feature arrangements I toyed with a while back constructed from industrial pipe fittings.

You know, flanges for bases and elbows for spouts. It’s simply shocking that I was so severely laughed at for my sterling efforts. Like it was my fault the prototype galvanised versions rusted on the threads and I couldn’t get them apart without a vice and a monkey wrench. The final ones were always going to be made out of stainless.

Still, enough rambling about my failed design projects…..I like this shower.

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You can ignore everything in this post as all is well. Call on 440-453-6125.

Could anybody getting in touch from America please get in contact via email initially. I’m currently changing cable packages and won’t be reconnected until next Wednesday (fingers crossed).

Now you may think that shouldn’t be any of your concern, but considering I solely use Skype as my phone service then it is when there’s only a dial-up connection to go through. You really don’t want to experience dial-up Skype.

So, if you could just email me at paul[at]tinpotalley[dot]com for the time being life would be sweet.

Sorry for any inconvenience but it’s only a temporary measure. I should hopefully have a new cell phone the beginning of next week.

Note: This is only for people wanting to get in touch from America.

Cheers.

UPDATE: We’re back up and running. You can ring to your heart’s content on 440-453-6125.