The Largest Listed Building in Europe, it's a Modernist Monster

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Despite the daytime TV schedules being crammed with car boot shows & antique auctions show, and despite my penchant for crap tv, I never tune in of a morning.

However, I was making a cup of tea in my Mum's kitchen half an hour ago & got stopped in my tracks by a daytime telly piece about Sheffield's Park Hill Estate. It's an abandoned monster of residential living, completed in 1961 and falling into disrepair in the 80s.

It's now undergoing a multi-million pound regeneration, after becoming a listed building meaning it can't be demolished.

I'm not convinced. There's something a bit bleak about that artist's impression of the finished product. The hot air balloons are all a bit Logan's Run. Soylent Green is People.

Boba Fett Stained Glass- by Me!

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One of my new year's resolutions was to learn glass painting. This is my first ever attempt at faux stained glass, a little Boba Fett number for my husband.

I need to work on colour schemes, but more importantly I need a way to 'fix' the paint, as you can see it ended up running even though I left it overnight to dry out.

Not a bad start though, if I do say so myself.