Resistance is futile

Longer term readers might remember the Portacabin Palace being built in our backyard at work. Follow the link for a reminder.

And here it is in all its modern hideousity. They put a third row of blocks on, bricked up the ground floor, clamped sheeting to the first and second, and put on that eye catching corrugated metal half barrel roof, having presumably run out of tiles. They left the green plastic wrappings on, beneath the bricks and the sheeting. Someone with a surgically removed sense of taste might think it looks quite swish - but we've seen what's under the skin and we know better, don't we, children?

It does serve a purpose: the westering sun used to shine right into the kitchen and raise the temperature to furnace level after mid-afternoon. This now casts a shadow so we can admire it in the merely quite warm.

The frightening thing is, it's been built to expand. New modular extensions will be added on in forthcoming years. There's presumably a vertical limit, but in principle this could just keep growing horizontally like some architectural cancer until eventually the entire Harwell site has been assimilated. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is the future. Get used to bowing down now.