Christmas Sky

Hope your all having a great Christmas. 

St Mary's church Cholsey on Christmas Day

Technicians Tree

Merry Christmas Everyone

Diamond Lego Day

Diamond Lego Take over

Photo is copyrighted to Diamond Light Source

On the 22nd December Diamond opened its doors for a Lego Take Over day where staff to bring their children along to help create a Lego model of the Diamond synchrotron.

This is the finished model  and Diamond would look just like that if you stripped away the outside and left the Storage Ring

This is the whole thing looking down from a walkway. How did they do? well from my point of view as one of the team who fitted it in and joined it all together in the first place I think really well

I'll take you through some of the parts of the Diamond Synchrotron

This part is the beam dumps on the linac,

in reality they look like this

so 10 out of 10 for that one


















This is an ID make up section

looks like this so another 10 out of 10

This is the BTS or Beam to Storage ring section

It looks like this so another 10 out of 10

The beam dump on the BTS

I'd say 10 out of 10 again

The BTS again

Which is here 10 out of 10

This is part of the booster ring

What can you say 10 out of 10

The cage on the Linac gun

They are just too good 10 out of 10

last of all the storage ring

What more can I say other than 10 out of 10. I think it is very impressive what the Children done with the help of their parents. Even more impressive when you think it took us six months to assemble it all and they did  make the model in a day. Think I'd better look out for a new job.
You can read more on the day Here You can also visit the Diamond Website Here

Skywatch

The weather has been foul over in the UK this week and round where I work mostly foggy though today was a bit of an exception and we had sun. I thought I would show some sky's from when my wife & I went out for the day last month. See if you can recognise any of the places I went past.

Bit of and Icon this

Need a head for heights on this one

Even more on this place

Feeling hungry

Happy Skywatch

Slow! Araf

Tree at the lake

Sky at the Henge

Back to Stonehenge today for my Skywatch

Supprised Look

 

 

 

Clas Brook Valley

After visiting a church to get photos of for my other blog I stopped off along a road to get this photo down the valley of Clas Brook.

I think it was worth the few moments I took to stop for the photo

Picnic on the Lawn

Balloonwatch 2

I'd  missed the big take off in the local park when I saw this lot go over my house 

 But I did not miss the night shots