Lazing on a Saturday afternoon watching TV a few years ago, a tall, bald Brit sat on a rock on a mountain in front of a makeshift braai. |
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Nasa had provided forceps and astronauts had rigged up a makeshift hacksaw for Robinson to use if the gap-fillers proved difficult to remove. |
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In the picture above, the entrance door is to the right and a makeshift extension to the front houses the kitchen. |
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A hundred yards away, a sorry looking BMW 6-series is parked at right angles to a motorway barrier, forming a makeshift roadblock. |
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Some women started cooking meal under trees while some others gently rocked makeshift cradles hanging from tree branches. |
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The girls were walking back via the scenic route, which led past the old makeshift campsite. |
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Section 303 prohibits the use of makeshift fittings or attachments that are load bearing. |
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Claire reached out to take her arm, shifting carefully on her makeshift lounger. |
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Spectators take cover under colourful umbrellas or in makeshift tents to protect themselves from the blistering sun. |
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The Samoans fielded a makeshift line-out, struggled in scrums though they outweighed the divisional side and lacked combination in general play. |
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I tie mine round my waist as a makeshift sarong and slip it round my shoulders to cover sunburn. |
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Resourceful gardeners can combine a few discarded window sashes and bales of straw to create a simple makeshift cold frame. |
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Offered between courses, small food serves as a makeshift tasting menu and has additional virtues that shouldn't go unnoticed, as well. |
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About 109,000 people are living in makeshift shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting. |
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All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with makeshift clubs. |
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Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to makeshift alarms to constant surveillance. |
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The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access. |
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The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals. |
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Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on makeshift courts for losing points. |
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So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with makeshift facilities. |
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They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of makeshift bunkers on Thursday. |
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Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on makeshift rafts of floating logs. |
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Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said. |
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I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing. |
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Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps. |
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Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a makeshift bed. |
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Men used their Afghan shawls as makeshift ropes to scale the stadium's walls. |
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So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance. |
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On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters. |
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Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in makeshift shacks in the New York underground system. |
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Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and makeshift sheds littering the massive garden. |
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We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in makeshift shelters. |
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All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any makeshift of it. |
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The models, hair and make-up artists and the designers all mingle together in a makeshift tent behind the stage. |
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Shane had set up a makeshift table for them, made of wooden boards and sawhorses. |
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With the barns at Pimlico Race Course full, other horsemen have been stabling horses in a makeshift tent city on that track's backstretch. |
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Sky and Boyd are at the makeshift coffee shop, and Sky is bagging him for pulling apart his hot dog, so he can just eat the frankfurter. |
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Many of the planets were run by makeshift despotic governments that intended to secede from the Republic. |
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While some of the gatherers donned costumes, most settled on picket signs and chants, and some marched to the beat of makeshift drums. |
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He saw his mother lying pathetically on a pile of blankets serving as a makeshift bed. |
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I gathered the bedclothes around and grimaced as I gingerly stood, then limped toward the door with my makeshift wrap trailing on the floor. |
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The inside was roomier than he'd expected, with a bedroll, table, and a pair of makeshift chairs taking up the back half of the tent space. |
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In the dim light of a makeshift beer hall in a township in South Africa, a tourist is introduced to a taste like no other. |
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We can see that many homeless people reside under the toll bridge and live in shabby makeshift slums. |
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Organizers set up a chain of tents and makeshift toilets to accommodate the protestors. |
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Needham has rigged a plywood makeshift helipad over the logs stacked 20m high from the very bowels of the ship to the topside decks. |
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In Cairo, Egypt, the rooftops of countless buildings are crowded with makeshift tents, shacks and mud shelters. |
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They had set up makeshift cover using old metal crates and some aged and rusted sheet metal. |
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It's an amalgamation of makeshift shelters and temporary wooden structures, and it's populated by folks who cannot find affordable housing. |
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They import goods from Pakistan, Japan, and China and sell them in makeshift shops or in stalls alongside the street. |
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There is a makeshift parking area at the top of a short path leading to the water. |
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Rows and rows of cows and heifers, their moos resounding within the school walls, were tethered to makeshift stalls. |
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They would pack tents, makeshift sleeping bags and simple foods, then set out to reconnect with Mother Earth. |
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The settlement has rough, makeshift roads, and the family home is uncompleted because of lack of money. |
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Even now, I need only unfocus slightly to visualize the flowers and makeshift altars on the steps. |
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Alexander was unattainable for he took command of moving the ship down the makeshift slipway toward the tidal flats. |
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The makeshift cave was lit by the fire of a few burning torches connected to the walls by age old rusty iron rings and stands. |
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He walked along the moonlit paths in silence, observing in silence the tents and makeshift buildings that housed the slumbering villagers. |
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Ava suddenly became busy tying the makeshift rope together, an excuse not to meet his smoldering gaze. |
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A protest raged on a courthouse lawn, round a makeshift stage they charged on. |
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I despair and I'm disgusted at the ne'er-do-well southern makeshift politicians. |
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For entertainment, we set up a volleyball net, put up a set of makeshift soccer goals, and had a wide variety of board games. |
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But even here, on the Island, the makeshift homes of the country's dispossessed fill every space unoccupied by sunbeds and volleyball nets. |
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In a panic, he sprayed the computer with the makeshift flamethrower, and the monitor of his computer exploded in a shower of sparks and fire. |
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They stabled the horses in a small makeshift stable that was in the very back of the warehouse. |
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I'm not a huge steampunk fan, but I do enjoy the makeshift weaponry that they create for the style. |
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Figures marched stiffly in single file down the narrow corridors between the makeshift rooms. |
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The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts. |
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Justin and I will stock up on the basic supplies and gather some makeshift weapons. |
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The iguana, in Wyke, was one of two reptiles discovered in a makeshift vivarium which did not have heat or temperature control. |
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It is in a central location with proper not makeshift access for disabled patients. |
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The makeshift factory seemed to specialize in outfitting vehicles with explosives. |
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His back header confounded the makeshift Lions' back four, Brown swanning in to volley definitively into the roof of Main's net. |
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With rats scuttling through debris outside their makeshift huts, they take cleanliness seriously. |
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He slipped his hand down and held hers almost subconsciously as they continued to walk down their makeshift path. |
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The shepherds pound the ground with their staffs and curse the sheep as they corral them into makeshift pens. |
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Virtually every street corner has a makeshift stall, selling watermelon in cut, crushed or juice form, or tender coconut water. |
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A college can't expect students to accept more than one term in improvised, makeshift spaces. |
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A few minutes later, they had fashioned the antenna into a makeshift letter U and put it over the cable. |
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In one sequence the camera reveals a nurse fashioning a cardboard box into a dead child's makeshift coffin to be strapped to a bicycle. |
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The commodious hall was almost full and on the makeshift stage musical instruments were being installed and tested by the accompanists. |
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Her body was then wrapped in bin liners, shoved into a makeshift bag stitched from Carol's pinafore dress and a rucksack. |
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This was not the first time that fire had engulfed the market which is made of makeshift structures of pinewood, cardbox boards and plastics. |
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At a makeshift relief camp in Nagappattinam, India, refugees complained about what they view as the condescending attitude of relief workers. |
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There was nothing makeshift or provisional about it, it was a proper theatre in Georgian style, with a pit, a gallery and boxes. |
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Finn watches his first mate wave the makeshift truce flag at the ship, hoping he wasn't about to see his friend get blown to smithereens. |
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The makeshift chariots were pulled by Iraqi horses commandeered from looters in the area. |
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Adults with rattling coughs, fevers and aches flooded their makeshift exam room. |
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The vicious movement had caused him to drop his makeshift cudgel in fear a moment before his life was taken. |
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She was sitting by the window, where they had put up a makeshift divan with soft cushions and throw pillows, watching the rain fall. |
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The fearless furry returned to the door of his makeshift burrow and watched his brothers and sisters snuggle up to their mum. |
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We looked for a scale or some measuring instrument and eventually found a makeshift stick to gauge the quantity left. |
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A gust of red dust swirls around a patch of prickly poppies outside her hogan door, twisting past a pair of horses in a makeshift corral. |
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A makeshift shop outside the gates of the cemetery gladly sold bundles to Ray. |
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Within the canvas, there is a makeshift altar, the flickering of candles illuminating the glister of an icon. |
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Inside the van were painted psychedelic patterns, swirled rugs and several spaced out hippies reclined on a makeshift sofa. |
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For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind. |
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Dodge, meanwhile, stayed in the makeshift camp to gulp some food, thinking he was about to work all night. |
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She slowly let go of his hand and walked behind the makeshift stage, where a woman was warbling out a country song. |
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A makeshift wooden bridge is the only access to the ramshackle dwelling leading from the road. |
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The driver had found a handkerchief and tied it round the radio aerial as a makeshift white flag. |
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The food goes off and Italian temperaments get extremely frazzled turning hotel rooms into makeshift kitchens. |
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Without another thought Royce clambered out the window, keeping a tight hold on the makeshift rope. |
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Several winters ago, I spent a morning in a makeshift ground blind on a rocky hillside near Laredo. |
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Six toga-clad brothers, using a large block of wood with makeshift handles, then carried Jason and Dennis on their backs onto the stage. |
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Hoisted on a makeshift derrick, the cob was taller than the angler who had taken it. |
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It happens in cellars and garages and makeshift workrooms, and it mainly involves a lot of hard work. |
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Police continued to keep a close watch on the squatters to ensure that the makeshift homes were not re-erected once the demolition was completed. |
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The only way to get the large swine into the boat without capsizing the craft was to build a makeshift floating ramp on the spot. |
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However, there are times when a vacation is much more relaxing and comfortable when it can be completed in a makeshift home environment. |
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I had to streak down and do a quick makeshift landing at a convenient landing strip. |
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As I snuggled against the warmth, I cradled my brother in a makeshift serape. |
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A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater. |
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The fire had been started with a makeshift incendiary device but caused only limited damage. |
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Authorities began demolishing their slum-like makeshift camps on Sunday. |
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She was 19 at the time, working as a waitress at a sketchy makeshift bar in a small mining town 460 miles north of Addis Ababa. |
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Yet at least those crammed into the astrodome and the other makeshift evacuation centers that have sprung up are alive. |
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A short time later, a speaker stepped up to a makeshift stage and grabbed the bullhorn. |
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On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid. |
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Another makeshift court session will take place in the police watchhouse. |
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Not far away is a makeshift raft of four innertubes tide together. |
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Instead of cars, traffic was composed of upturned beds, cupboards and doors turned into makeshift rafts, with people paddling seeking food and other necessities. |
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A green light flashed over the small inner hatch and the door swung open as Terry Reeve and a makeshift team of medics stormed in and began to administer to the wounded. |
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Leaving a trail of devastation behind him, a disgruntled store owner rampaged through a small Colorado town smashing buildings and cars with a makeshift armoured bulldozer. |
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Indian boys play with makeshift bats and balls from cockcrow to nightfall. |
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Although several makeshift dispensaries are erected during the Hajj season, these are often difficult to access, largely on account of the human mass. |
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On May 18, a detainee staged a suicide attempt to lure guards into a cell block, where they were attacked by prisoners armed with makeshift weapons, the military said. |
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Skinnier hawkers stealthily circulate cooking queijo cualho in makeshift tin kettles. |
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He hung up before she could say anything and found Bree and Matt amongst the swarm of students bunched around a makeshift stage in the TV room, where Acidburn was performing. |
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He went into the recreation room on the lower floor and told a young woman in the makeshift office space that he was there for the intelligence briefing. |
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To rally the crowd, Bennett sang on a makeshift stage constructed out of dozens of empty coffins. |
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Every night their corpses stacked higher in Penang's streets and hospitals and makeshift refugee camps. |
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More than two months after the disaster, many displaced families either depend on their relatives or live in makeshift tents that offer little protection. |
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It had crates piled against it on the inside to serve as sentry stands, and makeshift crenellations atop for better protection of the archers that stood watch. |
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One young woman was stretchered from the beach on a makeshift platform of planks and a rubber mat after tumbling from the rocks as she tried to escape a tear gas pellet. |
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The words have been scrawled into the concrete footing of a makeshift dwelling in the mountains of New Mexico. |
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The models, dressed in traditional habits, approached a makeshift altar where two square-jawed faux priests helped them disrobe. |
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When not screaming or yelling hysterically, Samuel is brandishing makeshift weapons and pushing his cousins off a tree house. |
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Vendors offered services such as knife sharpening, cigarette lighter repair, and bike inner-tube patching from makeshift, cloth-covered wooden crates. |
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An upside-down laundry basket serves as a makeshift nightstand. |
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Visitors can sit and pray in a makeshift chapel that features a life-sized statue of Mother Teresa sitting in the ground in a corner, hunched over in prayer. |
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The lungfish is an animal capable of hibernating through the dry season by secreting a form of mucus through its pores that hardens into a makeshift cocoon. |
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There is virtually a glut in the market with vendors pushing their carts around and turning every little space by the roadside into makeshift vending points. |
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A handful of young staffers lounged on couches or hunched over their computers at makeshift desks. |
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Residents had placed makeshift roadblocks, including wooden beams and furniture, on roads leading to the protest. |
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The ordinary, slightly makeshift materials, the proportions and the detailing, and the strange tilt of the skillion, confirms that knowing hands are at work. |
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The veranda, roofless and open to the bitter blue sky where the seasonal gu rains sputter, serves as a makeshift neonatal ward. |
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Heading into the small makeshift kitchen inside his shack he retrieved a large jar of polenta. |
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Earlier this week she pleaded with ISIS to uphold the verdict of a makeshift sharia court, which ruled that he was not a spy. |
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A few representatives of the dealer as well as the official financier are present at the makeshift counters to explain the salient features of the product and loan offers. |
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Candles, seashells, incense and a miniature Buddha were among the offerings left on the makeshift altar at the base of the tree. |
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They sat stock-still on the hardwood benches of the dank, makeshift cinema in Monrovia. |
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Volunteer teachers set up makeshift classes in the building's stairwell, in the hallway, and among the bench presses and barbells in a weight room. |
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To provide protection from predators and thieves, just about everyone in Laikipia keeps their livestock at night in makeshift corrals of thorns, called bomas. |
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Early on Saturday tallymen could be seen rushing between booths leaning over the makeshift partitions as ballot papers were unfolded and laid out in bundles. |
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Foreign arrivals last summer were obliged to duck under scaffolding and sidestep earsplitting riveters and sandblasters in order to reach a makeshift passport control desk. |
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Heinz wrote the book in his makeshift den, a bantam-size office that he had constructed off the TV room in a corner of his garage. |
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Some used plastic bags and tarps to create makeshift covers for their rockets, keeping them from being exposed to the rain for as long as possible before launch. |
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Blood had seeped through the makeshift bandage, soaking it through. |
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It occupies a two-story apartment in central Kiev that resembles a makeshift wartime command center. |
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He showed up at the games incognito and stayed in makeshift barracks. |
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At the center of the dispute is a compromise reached Tuesday to put aside the party asset bill in exchange for opposition support for a makeshift finance measure. |
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He left the makeshift absinthiana on the counter and took the drink to the kitchen table, holding a paring knife in his left hand. |
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After walking round the lake where residents include Muscovy Ducks, I came across an undisturbed, makeshift memorial site. |
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A GAS explosion burnt a pensioner's face and hands after he used a makeshift blowtorch to defrost a gas cylinder. |
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The inquest heard David rushed to the property and tried to tow the mower off his father but the makeshift tow rope snapped. |
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Weapons including a large knife and a makeshift ammonia spray made from a squeezy lemon juice bottle were also recovered. |
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Upon the completion of the extraction procedure, the raffinate was distilled using a makeshift distillation apparatus. |
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Next to it, a car was perforated with bullet holes like a makeshift sieve. |
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Alan, 43, told yesterday how he carved out a makeshift shelter with a small ice-axe after becoming trapped on Glenshee. |
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With barriers and platform tickets long gone, the bus company turned train operator is putting up makeshift checkpoints to catch fare dodgers. |
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Some wept and women ululated defiantly as each body was taken from the makeshift morgue in a marble-floored section of the mosque. |
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Sumner worked in a makeshift obstetrics clinic at the Houston Astrodome, where 6,000 evacuees took refuge. |
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The annual makeshift tarmacadam tennis court, hastily drawn in dimensions roughly resembling Wimbledon's Centre Court. |
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Ten Bangladeshis were also killed in a blaze on May 27, 2012 in a makeshift labour camp in East Riffa. |
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As per the new guidelines issued by the NHRC in 2013, double-decker beds in makeshift labour camps on construction sites have been banned. |
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A makeshift trail was cut far up a slippery hill home to the worldAAEs few hundred remaining silky sifaka lemurs. |
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She walked for two days before settling into a makeshift camp. |
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The party was full and I found a sofa near a makeshift bar in the corner. |
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In a makeshift court lasting only one day, over 500 men were tried and the majority sentenced to death. |
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Hartshead Moor services was used as a makeshift hospital and base for investigations. |
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The camping retail chain Millets, and independent shops, set up makeshift outlets at the festival. |
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Parliamentary officials turned two committee rooms into makeshift dormitories for male and female Peers. |
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To complement the already built communal shelters the council requisitioned cellars and basements as makeshift shelters. |
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Refugees settled temporarily in makeshift tent villages in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, on the beaches, and elsewhere. |
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They attached the long hunting knives in the barrels of their muskets and that way they fashioned makeshift spears later called bayonets. |
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In this case, some tools can substitute for other tools, either as a makeshift solution or as a matter of practical efficiency. |
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Again, these would be considered tools that are being used for their unintended purposes, substitution as makeshift. |
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Though there are no permanent gurdwaras, many smaller gurdwaras in makeshift camps exist and are recognised by the government. |
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Ad hoc can also mean makeshift solutions, shifting contexts to create new meanings, inadequate planning, or improvised events. |
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Several of the delegates were disappointed in the result, a makeshift series of unfortunate compromises. |
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Other passengers ripped the door of a nearby railway storeroom from its hinges, to serve as a makeshift stretcher. |
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Royal troops elsewhere met determined resistance from revolutionaries at makeshift barricades. |
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The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it. |
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Most of this work is typically done by hand, using such basic tools as machetes, axes, hoes, and makeshift shovels. |
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Dogs were also kept in makeshift wooden lean-tos, derelict cars and an outside toilet, at Harthill's home, at Goodrest Farm. |
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According to the last official count in July 2015, about 3,000 migrants, mainly from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan, were living in the makeshift camps in Calais. |
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Meanwhile, the makeshift Greek navy was achieving success against the Ottoman navy in the Aegean Sea and prevented Ottoman reinforcements from arriving by sea. |
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Masenyani Mandhalele, 29, and nine other Shangaan tribesmen kidnapped John Chakabaya and forced him through the surgical procedure in a makeshift clinic in Chilonga, Shurugwi. |
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They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter. |
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In the German case, Griebenschmalz has been substituted with apples and onions, first as a makeshift in times of needs but as well to lower the fat content. |
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It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. |
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Place chocolate and butter in another heatproof bowl and melt in a makeshift double boiler by setting the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. |
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Yet the Government and the HSE continue to make cuts which result in situations where an elderly man gets a makeshift IV stand hanging from a coathanger. |
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As Wellington's makeshift train slowly headed towards Manchester, it was accompanied along the route by cheering crowds, still unaware of the accident. |
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Given barely two months to assemble a large seagoing invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft. |
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In the final part of the trip, both returned to Varadero to have a rematch with local street racers, only this time, they race in a makeshift oval track made using used tyres. |
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Armstrong helped the students in their early efforts, donating a microphone and turntables when they designed their first makeshift studio in a dorm room. |
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In Hungary s third-biggest city of Miskolc, the mayor imposed emergency tap water restrictions and residents were building makeshift dams using logs, rocks and debris. |
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Five makeshift life rafts were floating in the southern central part of the ocean and the Irish naval flagship saved asylum seekers on two of them. |
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Invariably one of the women will have a makeshift veil and the men will be wearing multi-coloured fright wigs as they enjoy their last flings before a life of domestic bliss. |
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