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Not the animal, but the photo. One of the problems I face at the zoos is shooting through fencing and trying to make it disappear. The fisher was a little too close to the fence for that to happen this time, but I really liked the expression on her face. So, I selected her face and blurred the rest of the photo.
I'm not totally satisfied with the results, and it's certainly not good enough to turn in to the graphics designer. But it looks better than the original!
Le but de l'excursion de dimanche soir passé était de prendre des photos d'un magnifique coucher de soleil. Un peu raté... Par contre, j'ai fait beaucoup de photos avec des longues expositions, pour avoir un bel effet dans l'eau.
Makara beach se trouve à 30 minutes de route de la ville de Wellington. C'est seulement accessible en voiture. Arrivé sur place, il n'y a pas grand chose à faire, excepté une marche et des coins pour pêcher.
We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
Researching but have not found a manufacture date for this machine. Looks built to last for another couple of centuries at least. also rather interesting construction or so it seams and not the usual switch stand that I have seen.
Many Many thanks to PoppaJ who found this information on the above switch machine from a 1917 ad in Railway Maintenance Engineer. Based on a couple of pix I have of the Henderson area, it appears that Seaboard was partial to the Ramapo switch stands as it appears they used #17 also. Need to photograph the base of several of them to get the model.
Wait, don't go too early
you're tired but everyone's tired
but no one is tired enough
only wait a little and listen
music of hair, music of pain
music of looms weaving all our loves again
be there to hear it, it's your only chance
hair will become interesting
pain will become interesting
second hand gloves will become lovely again
wait, wait for now
distrust everything if you have to
but trust the hours
haven't they carried you everywhere up to now
(consiglio vivamente l'ascolto per godere di 3 minuti senza tempo.)
JOKING! But everything here is my sister's.
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+Jacket: H&M
+Top: Urban Outfitters
+Jeans: ON
+Shoes: 6x6 for UO
+Bag: Torrance Flea Market
Unfortunately I didn't manage to visit the hotel's museum, but the listed building report does allude to its somewhat eventful history:
"In June of 1873, the Balnakeilly Estate feued this site to the Athole Hydropathic Company Ltd. In September of the same year a prospectus was produced to raise capital of '40,000. Under the supervision of Mr Dick building had commenced by February 1876, and by 1877 a further '20,000 borrowed from the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company. During excavation of the site, Pictish remains were uncovered. Building was halted during 1883 owing to the bankruptcy of Mr Dick who sold to Mr William McDonald, owner of the Royal Refreshment Rooms in Perth. By 1886 The Atholl had opened and provided 'a rejuvenating spa' with water taken from Moulin Burn and heated. Francis Norrie-Miller, General Manager of General Accident Insurance Company purchased the hotel in 1911 and sold in 1913 to the Atholl Palace Hotel (Pitlochry) Limited Company. In 1915 the building was used house [sic] pupils of Queen Margaret Girls' School, and again in 1940 became the war-time residence of the Leys School, Cambridge."
Note how the downstairs has had a 1930s Art Deco makeover but the upstairs has not. It still has its 1850s French windows etc. It was here that Goulburn doctor, Dr Waugh, started his practice in 1848. He later developed baking powder here.
Why was Goulburn one of the first two inland towns in NSW? It was all to do with convicts. For 35 years NSW was kept as a convict settlement with free settlers deterred from settling. As late as 1830 75% of all NSW inhabitants were convicts or ex-convicts. Most free settlers were ex military personnel who had been given generous free land grants usually of around 1,000 acres upon their retirement from the military forces. Most chose to stay in NSW. The British Colonial Office also limited early settlement to the Sydney region -the Cumberland Plains. Around 1820 the government changed its policy and the first convicts were moved out of Sydney to the Hunter Valley; explorers were sent out to find new areas of NSW suitable for pastoralism; and free settlers were encouraged to settle. England wanted more Australian wool to keep their textile factories busy by the 1820s. Economic imperialism had changed government policy. But control was still tight in the new areas and they were limited to the Hunter Valley; the Illawarra region (Nowra); the Bathurst Plains; and the Goulburn Plains. The early development in all these areas was mainly undertaken by assigned convicts who worked for private landowners before their pardons were granted. Each area had a convict station from where landowners selected their assigned convict workers and these depots had to have convict barracks, soldier barracks, commissariat stores etc. Some convicts were kept in chains and employed on building roads, culverts, bridges and government buildings. The main convict station of the Goulburn region was at Towrang Creek which operated from 1833 to 1843 during the construction of the Great South Road-now the Hume Highway. (Hamilton Hume and Meehan had explored this western area of NSW in 1818 when he discovered Lake Bathurst.) At Towrang around 250 convicts were housed whilst they constructed the road. Other were assigned to the first pastoralists. A few remains exist at Towrang a culvert, bridge, weir, remains of the Powder Magazine and the Stockade. The convicts and the convict station helped open up Argyle Country and the Goulburn Plains. The first white pastoral settler arrived in 1825 and the current city of Goulburn was surveyed in 1833. As the administrative capital of Argyle County it had a staggering 1,200 people by 1841 with soldier and convict barracks, courthouse, rudimentary hospital, shops, churches and Post Office. It grew considerably in the 1850s and was declared as Australia’s first inland city in 1863 by Royal Letters Patent. It was the last royal patent city declared in the British Empire. It grew even more once the first railway line from Sydney reached the city in 1868.
Yes but it was actually a very surreal reality ! I’d worked for the company for six months , getting no where , struggling for money , life was truly dull and I was so lonely , then I met him , he was a very rich guy a friend of the MD , who often visited , was always very intense but took time to talk to me , strangely we became friends , a millionaire and a lonely young guy , it turns out , despite his money he’s lonely too ! So we gravitated into a friendship , he’d buy me lunch , we’d go for a drink after work , as the friendship grew so he seemed to take control , then one evening he made the most strange request “ I’m invited to a very important banquet , I hate going on my own , I’d love to have your company M but it would not be right to take a young man , but a beautiful young lady , that would give me such credence , would you be her “ he was staring so intently into my eyes , he was deadly serious too ! Some how the idea did appeal “ Nice idea but I’m a boy “ was my crass reply “But when I look at you I see a beauty that you just don’t realise you have , let show you , I’ll pay for you to go to one of these beauty weekends ladies go to , get pampered and beautified , at least give it a try “ so , yes , I agreed ! It was amazing , a total revelation , the beauticians were so kind , so enthusiastic ,”Honey you have such a pretty face , a pert ass like a girl , even your many boobs are more like a young girls breasts , we will make you so beautiful you won’t ever want to dress as a boy again . So it proved with all my body hair removed , my skin treated with lotions , several facials , they truly transformed me into a stunning young girl . Wearing silky under wear and lingerie was such a sensual delight , how the silky soft materials caressed and teased my feminised flesh , dresses and skirts just fitted so perfectly and felt amazing to wear , I was totally absorbed by feminine desires , I stayed for a whole week , learnt the right deportment and stature of a woman , how to walk , talk , yes , and act as a girl , high heels were now a must , I never left the bedroom without makeup on , I was starting to live this feminine dream . When Henry , my sponsor saw me wearing this long silk dress , his face was truly a picture , I felt a shimmer from goose bumps , butterflies in my tummy , he had desire , lust even , in his eyes as he stared at me , I truly felt like a beauty queen , wa liking into this banquet I felt I was his woman , I’d never as a boy had the self confidence I now have as a young lady , a beautiful young lady , oh the admiring glances of envy from Henry’s friends and associates , the envious looks from their female partners as the men quite literally flirted with me , yes I was naughty ,I flirted with them too , I was in heaven , Henry positively encouraged me too , he was so happy , we are such a happy couple , it still feels so surreal mincing go out table on his arm , swaying my hips , knowing those male eyes are ogling my gentle flicker of my ass cheeks beneath that tight , clinging silk dress , in wearing a thong , so they are bare , so sensitive to Henry’s touch , later on I danced with his friends , their hands caressed me so sensually , they could feel my ass cheeks were bare beneath my dress , it turned them on , ouch yes and me too “You can touch , you can feel my ass , but remember I’m Henry’s girl , for tonight “ I whisper , leaving the door wide open for future clandestine relationships , oh yes I want to live the life now I’m her !
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I would like to tell you, I would like to say
That I knew that this would happen
That things would go this way
But I cannot deceive you, this was never planned
I know that you're the right girl but do you think that I am the right too ?
You say it's not a problem, You say it's meant to be
But love is not an option, our love is never free
And things are not so easy, so cold and we've been burned
I know that I'll have regrets but that's the price of one more lesson learned
(But I don't wanna fall in love)
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TRA t3bt o ana asweha LOOOL g3dt 2 days aktb ( i don't want to full in love ) bema eni 9ar le 7 mounths ma mskt glm ;;) !!
o ay6'n 6wlt feha 3shan a7sn 56i el jmel =)
hope u like it <3
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But at least I limited myself to a layer cake.
It sucks that there is no chance for us in Europe to order from JoAnn's. I would love to buy half yards at least of 3 of the floral prints...
Denyse Schmidt Blossom Reel
Smaller Forget-me-not (Myosotis laxa) - Best Lake Watchung, New Jersey
This is the native American version of the Forget-me-not (Myosotis laxa) with flowers about 4mm ( between ⅛ & ¼ inch) in size. They also uncurl as they bloom like Scopion Grass, where as the European ("True") Forget-me-nots are about ½ inch in size (12 mm), and bloom in a branched head.
Stagecoach Leyland Olympian B960ODU on service X18 from Stratford-upon-Avon to Coventry taken in June 1998. But where is it? We were driving from somewhere near Coventry to Banbury and this was just a happy snap during an ice cream stop.
Is it Stratford itself? Mystery solved thanks to Redhill Bull.
Both have had facelifts, but it looks like The Playhouse and St John's Shopping Centre (and St John's Beacon, just in shot) are the only remaining parts of Williamson Swuare from the late 1960s.
To the left in the 2013 shot is a water fountain ensquared by a poem by Roger McGough
Water
Water is fountains
Is gymnast
Is fun
Water is Mountainous
Is scallywag
Is splash
Water is Mysterious
Is playhouse
Is dream
Water is Serious
Is stargazy
Is steam
Water is Humorous
Is teardrops
Is serenade
Water is Curious
Is careless
Is cavalcade
Water is Sumptuous
Is rainbow
Is ecstatic
Water is Tempestuous
Is baby face
Is erratic
Water is Curvaceous
Is shipshape
Is piggyback
Water is Flirtatious
Is scatterbrain
Is paddywack
Water is Mischievous
Is fidgety
Is chatterbox
Water is Liverpool
Is river
Is paradox
And on the spot where there was (I think) a cold storage facility, is the Liverpool FC Club shop.
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But how will it be.... how will you know if its really there... even you can have the clear picture of the end, why do you still proceed... how will you know its the path that you should take... or divert before its too late...
Love this group of old trucks that I've eyed for many years. They don't seem to be going anywhere, but I am always relieved to see that they're still here.
View through window on walk to the top, Sagrada Familia temple, architect Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona, Spain © Linda Dawn Hammond/ IndyFoto 2007
Nativity façade, East Side, Sagrada Familia Temple , architect Antonio Gaudi . Barcelona, Spain
Passion façade, West Side
Walk to top, written Sacrifici Oracio Almoina, brilliant, perpetually unfinished building, Latin Catholic.
www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/
SYMBOLOGY
Christian symbology is to be found in all Gaudí's work, but the most evident example of its application is the church, which tells the life of Jesus and the history of the faith.
To that end the church has been built over the years according to Gaudí's original idea, which expresses the Catholic faith in the architecture: Jesus and the faithful, represented by Mary, the apostles and the saints. That can be seen in the eighteen bell towers, which symbolise Jesus, the Virgin, the four evangelists and the twelve apostles; on the three facades, which represent the human life of Jesus (from birth to death), and in the interior, which suggests the celestial Jerusalem, where a set of columns, dedicated to Christian cities and continents, represent the apostles.
BEGINNINGS: 1883-1913
After undertaking the project in 1883, Gaudí built the crypt, which was finished in 1889. As he started work on the apse (and the cloister), everything went at a good pace thanks to the donations. When he received a large anonymous one, he thought of doing a new, bigger work: he discarded the old neo-Gothic project and proposed a more monumental and innovatory one in terms of both forms and structures and the construction. Gaudí’s project consisted of a large church with a Latin cross ground plan and high towers; it carried a major symbolic load, in both architectural and sculptural form, with the ultimate aim of being a catechistic explanation of the teachings of the Gospels and the Church.
In 1892 he began work on the foundations of the Nativity façade because, as he said himself, “If, instead of making this decorated, ornamented and swollen façade I had begun with the Passion, hard, bare and as if made of bone, people would have stepped back.” In 1894 the apse façade was finished and in 1899 the Roser door, one of the entrances to the Nativity cloister.
PRESENT: 1986-2010
In 2000 the vaults of the central nave and the transept were built and work began on the foundations of the Glory façade. That year, on the occasion of the new millennium, a mass was held inside the church which provided an opportunity to grasp the grandiosity of the work.
In 2001 the central window of the Passion façade was completed with the installation of a stained glass window dedicated to the resurrection, the work of Joan Vila-Grau. The four columns of the centre of the crossing were also finished.
Wikipedia
Towers
Every part of the design of La Sagrada Família is replete with Christian symbolism, as Gaudí intended the church to be the "last great sanctuary of Christendom". Its most striking aspect is its spindle-shaped towers. A total of eighteen tall towers are called for, representing in ascending order of height the Twelve Apostles, the four Evangelists, the Virgin Mary and, tallest of all, Jesus Christ. (According to the 2005 "Works Report" of the temple's official website, drawings signed by Gaudí found recently in the Municipal Archives indicate that the tower of the Virgin was in fact intended by Gaudí to be shorter than those of the evangelists, and this is the design — which the Works Report states is more compatible with the existing foundations — that will be followed. The same source explains the symbolism in terms of Christ being known through the Evangelists.) The Evangelists' towers will be surmounted by sculptures of their traditional symbols: a bull (St Luke), a winged man (St Matthew), an eagle (St John), and a lion (St Mark). The central tower of Jesus Christ is to be surmounted by a giant cross; the tower's total height (170 m) will be one metre less than that of Montjuïc (a hill in Barcelona), as Gaudí believed that his work should not surpass that of God. Lower towers are surmounted by communion hosts with sheaves of wheat and chalices with bunches of grapes, representing the Eucharist.
Façades
The Church will have three grand façades: the Nativity façade to the East, the Glory façade to the South (yet to be completed) and the Passion façade to the West. The Nativity facade was built before work was interrupted in 1935 and bears the most direct Gaudí influence. The Passion façade is especially striking for its spare, gaunt, tormented characters, including emaciated figures of Christ being flogged and on the crucifix. These controversial designs are the work of Josep Maria Subirachs.
Interior
Tree-like supporting pillars of roof
The church plan is that of a Latin cross with five aisles. The central nave vaults reach forty-five metres while the side nave vaults reach thirty metres. The transept has three aisles. The columns are on a 7.5 metre grid. However, the columns of the apse, resting on del Villar's foundation, do not adhere to the grid, requiring a section of columns of the ambulatory to transition to the grid thus creating a horseshoe pattern to the layout of those columns. The crossing rests on the four central columns of porphyry supporting a great hyperboloid surrounded by two rings of twelve hyperboloids (currently under construction). The central vault reaches sixty metres. The apse will be capped by a hyperboloid vault reaching seventy-five metres. Gaudí intended that a visitor standing at the main entrance be able to see the vaults of the nave, crossing, and apse, thus the graduated increase in vault loftiness.
The columns of the interior are a unique Gaudí design. Besides branching to support their load, their ever-changing surfaces are the result of the intersection of various geometric forms. The simplest example is that of a square base evolving into an octagon as the column rises, then a sixteen-sided form, and eventually to a circle. This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).
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Alpha and Omega carving at Sagrada Família entrance.
Key to the symbolism of the church.
The towers on the Nativity façade are crowned with geometrically shaped tops that are reminiscent of Cubism (they were finished around 1930), and the intricate decoration is contemporary to the style of Art Nouveau, but Gaudí's unique style drew primarily from nature, not other artists or architects, and resists categorization.
Gaudí used hyperboloid structures in later designs of the Sagrada Família (more obviously after 1914), however there are a few places on the nativity façade—a design not equated with Gaudí's ruled-surface design, where the hyperboloid crops up. For example, all around the scene with the pelican there are numerous examples (including the basket held by one of the figures). There is a hyperboloid adding structural stability to the cypress tree (by connecting it to the bridge). And finally, the "bishop's mitre" spires are capped with hyperboloid structures[3]. In his later designs, ruled surfaces are prominent in the nave's vaults and windows and the surfaces of the Passion facade.
Symbolism
Themes throughout the decoration include words from the liturgy. The towers are decorated with words such as "Hosanna", "Excelsis", and "Sanctus"; the great doors of the Passion façade reproduce words from the Bible in various languages including Catalan; and the Glory façade is to be decorated with the words from the Apostles' Creed.
Areas of the sanctuary will be designated to represent various concepts, such as saints, virtues and sins, and secular concepts such as regions, presumably with decoration to match.
Areas of the sanctuary will be designated to represent various concepts, such as saints, virtues and sins, and secular concepts such as regions, presumably with decoration to match.
Dumb as a stump but yet still so fabulous.It's easy with a chump like Eric to kick around. This fashion has functioning pockets and a magenta scalloped ruffle underneath.It also has rhinestones! Who doesn't love rhinestones?! Nobody whose name rhymes with Fliberacce, that's for sure.
This fashion won't be up in the shop till the end of June. I'm taking a little break from etsy to make my brother's fiancé a wedding dress! I was really excited to share photos of my recent endeavors before I sign off though. Visit my shop here:
Summer Tollwood festival, Munich
@Sorry, because a technical mistake of me, I deleted all lovely 16 comments :-(
Thanks all
There are loads of pretty flowers in the city garden, but I love these little ones most.
I called my family this evening, my mum picked up the phone, she was watching tv with my dad in the living room, after we changed to this new big apartment, we got 2 living rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 kitchen and a big balcony. My mum loves the balcony a lot, she likes to do the laundry there under sunshine, wet clothes get dry very soon there, we were living in the second floor before, but now, we lived in the 6th and 7th, and also the highest floor in our builing. My dad also loves the balcony, he got many plants there, last time I went back home, I even found a lemon tree and some cucumbers, it was just amazing. Having a fresh cucumber after supper in the evening in the balcony is great. Everyone at home loves to do it. And sometimes we have hot pot in the balcony too. Its not a big house, but all of my family are satisfied where we are living now.
The worst thing at home is if only my parents are watching tv in the living room, then other rooms would be totally empty. the home got too quiet sometimes, my dad said that to me not only once, “I feel now it’s the time to add more people to our home, too few people here for such a big place”, every time I just do something else to get his attention.
Mum: how is your life in school
Me: good, a bit busy, and I am too lazy sometimes.
Mum: yeah.
Me: what did u do today
Mum: nothing, its sunny and very warm, a bit hot actually, I made dinner and went to downstairs, chat with neighbors.
Me: how are dad’s teeth?
Mum: oh, they are fine now.
Me: did he go to the hospital?
Mum: no, he didn’t, the teeth are fine a few days later. So he didn’t go to the hospital.
Me: I see.
Mum: what did u do today?
Me: I took a nap in the afternoon, and then I went to the lab, now on the way coming back dorm. Windy and still cold.
Mum: I see, but its warm here.
Mum handed phone to my dad, I told him I would go to Guangzhou next week for a academic meeting.
Dad: I see, then be careful.
Me: more than 10 people would go there together, its ok. Why be careful?
Dad: oh I mean , if u want to go out for fun in Guangzhou after meeting, then be careful
Me: I see. But I think I would not go out, its in a school.
Dad: ok.
I don’t know if my parents really know me what kind of person I am, mum always says to others, she doesn’t have to do much for me, because I always can do it myself. That’s true and false. For true, yes, I almost did everything myself, I seldom came back home to ask for advices, most of the time, I made my decision, then told them. But I never cross the line to them, I know what the line is. To be honest, I did cross the line to myself, I am that kind of person who would do something really dangerous and with risk. For me, I don’t care, for them, i didn’t tell them, because I don’t want they worry about me.
For the false part, I am such a sensitive person they never know. They never know what’s in my mind and what I really want. Like so many beautiful flowers in the garden, they would pick the largest one for me, but what I really love is little one. I feel scared when they try to worry about me, so scared. My mum is like , she talks about everything in her mind. But I am like, nearly never talk about the real part of myself. I do have a secret garden in my heart, I hide it very carefully, with all my courage. I know what it means to me. I love my mum, she loves me the most too, but its so hard for us to talk about what's really in my mind.
At the end of year 2008, something came to me in my life, I was like a vulnerable baby again without any protection, I know there was a part of my fault, but I have no idea how to get to the right way, as u can expect, I was falling into pieces after that. What comes to me was a long dark time, lasted one year. Sometimes I still feel it is still there, when i was deeply sad and depressed. But most of the time, I do think about the bright side, like, I start to read English novels, I begin to take photos in my daily life, I am still fighting for my graduation the last year. That’s pretty good, isn’t it? I am still a student here in university, I didn’t go anywhere further.
Sometimes I was wondering what if my parents come to talk with me about my secret garden, what if I was healthy in my heart since I was a kid, what if I was happy and talk to others easily, what if everything is changed.
Sure I will never experience those horrible pains and tearful days, if I was like that. It would be totally different world to me, I would be not Celine anymore, maybe another Rachel or Kate.
But I know I would not like it. I do enjoy my life now, I love what I do in my free time, I love everything in my small dorm, I know there is still some pains maybe it would never pass away from me, but I still feel being celine is such a wonderful thing in the world.
Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954
Most monster movie fans have believed for decades that the design of the Creature was the work of Bud Westmoore, but that is not the case. The Creature's "gill-man" design actually came off of the pen of artist Milicent (Millicent) Patrick. Although the fetching young illustrator never got her name in the films credits she was paraded from film screening to film screening in hopes that her model-like good looks would drum up more publicity for the film. Her contribution to the history of monster films has never been fully given the credit that it so deserves. Unfortunately there a far too many such "unknown heroes" in the genre of horror and sci-fi films.
The Creature's appearance was based on old
seventeenth-century woodcuts of two bizarre
creatures called the Sea Monk and the Sea
Bishop. The Creature's final head was based on
that of the Sea Monk, but the original discarded
head was based on that of the Sea Bishop.
Here we have several shots of Milicent Patrick. Patrick was the person responsible for the look and design of the "Creature From the Black Lagoon".
Universal was already famous for iconic "monster" movies. Frankenstein and Dracula became part of the culture. Creature from the Black Lagoon (CBL) is mostly in the same vein of monster-horror flick, but with a little science in its fiction. Unlike magical or demonic monsters, this one is supposedly a "natural" anomaly of evolution. CBL is often classified as sci-fi, so it's worthy of inclusion here.
Budget-wise, CBL is a B movie, but it's a cut above the usual B crowd. The acting was reasonable. The cinematography was impressive. The only "special" effect was the creature's costume. While the Creature is, in many people's mind, THE icon for man-in-rubber-suit monster costumes, something about the creature found resonance in movie-goers. He was strong enough to merit two sequels.
The producers tapped Jack Arnold for director. Arnold, who directed It Came From Outer Space had an excellent eye. His use of many camera locations, angles, framing and cuts, he lets the camera become invisible. Viewers are in the scene, not simply watching it.
The actors didn't get in the way of the story. Richard Carlson was already a big name in the sci-fi movie world. It Came From Outer Space, Magnetic Monster, and Riders to the Stars. Richard
Denning was a hunky star of many westerns and detective movies. He would go on to star in a few more sci-fi films. The female lead, Julie Adams was perfect as the beautiful damsel. The supporting cast were a little quirky at times, but not as stiff and wooden as second-teir actors tend to be.
Synopsis
A old archeologist, working in the remote Amazon, finds the fossilized hand -- somewhat humanoid, but obviously aquatic. He shows it to some other scientists who agree to mount an expedition to find the rest of the skeleton. While Dr. Maia was doing all this, a creature with the same kind of hand tears up his camp and kills his two native helpers. The scientists spend many days digging and sifting, but come up empty. They decide to go further upstream to the Black Lagoon to search. There, they encounter the Gill-Man. The two scientists are at odds over what's best -- capture the creature alive, kill it and bring it back, study it and leave, etc. All this debate becomes moot when the creature begins killing off crew members. The creature barricades the entrance to the lagoon so the ship cannot leave. The expedition becomes a battle for survival. They manage to drug and capture the creature, but it escapes its cage-tank. It kills Dr. Williams. It then captures the beautiful woman, taking her to his cave lair. The men follow, find her and the creature. After taking several bullet hits, the creature staggers away and dives into the lagoon. The final image is of the creature floating downwards, limp and lifeless.
Why is this movie fun?
This is one of those cultural icon movies that even non-fans of sci-fi know. In that regard, watching it like seeing a celebrity in person. Arnold does a good job with pacing and keeping tension up. It's interesting that the creature gets his own theme music, of sorts. Arnold that the same ascending three note phrase, "do da DEEEEE!" accompany each appearance. The creature's mixture of vulnerability and apparent invincibility, kept you off guard. Spear gun hits or bullets seemed to almost take him down, but not quite.
Dueling Scientists -- Dr. Reed (Carlson) represents the "good" side of science. He wants to study the creature, but not interfere or harm anything. He wants to expand the field of knowledge for altruistic reasons. Dr. Williams (Denning) represents the dark side of science. He's focused on the fundraising potential, the economic cost of expeditions. When confronted with the creature, he's all for killing it (not so much for the safety of the others) in order to bring it back for exhibition. This dualism of scientists is somewhat two-dimensional, but works as a sub-theme.
Many B-grade sci-fi films show their low-budget monster as little as possible. CBL breaks that rule in a big way. Viewers get several partial views right away (the hand) and not too far into the film, a full view of him. Since the producers didn't cheap out on the gill-man's costume, viewers aren't let down. He looks, moves and acts much one would think a gill-man would.
The gill-man is not simply a killing machine type of monster. His curiosity with (attraction to) Kay makes him more complex. In the swimming sequence (a strong foreshadow of the swimming girl scene in Jaws), he swims along with her, unseen, in a sort of parallel dance. He, the ancient, strong and primal male matching moves with the lithe, beautiful, innocent female. Some suggest that the gill-man's popularity was how well he echoed the adolescent male condition: awkward, unattractive, misunderstood, full of rage, attracted to beautiful women, but insecure approaching them. The big scene, in which the gill-man grabs Kay off the boat and swims her down to his cave lair is easily a young male fantasy.
CBL has the classic they're-after-our-women scene. It lives up to the poster art. The gill-man grabs the woman and runs (swims) off with her. He carries her in his arms toward his lair. Unlike other versions of this classic image, the gill-man appears to actually want the woman.
Spoiler alert btw
8/10 *subject to change*
Don’t really do things like this, I might more often I’m not sure but this’ll be pretty straight forward
What I liked
Use of classic batman and superman themes
Flashback scene especially the green lantern Easter egg and a better looking ares
Batman was pretty ok liked him less than I did in BvS
Flash was also pretty good, better than I thought he’d be
Superman actually smiled and the bright blue suit was nice
Ww was okay
Aquaman was...well that dunno he was there I know that but he didn’t seem to do a whole lot. Thought he would be the “funny guy” but he wasn’t
Cyborg also better than I thought he’d be, but didn’t really do much
*Okay that had some dislikes but the rest of he liked sections will only be things I liked lol*
Steppenwolf was actually not as bad a every1 Says he is
Reference to black mask
The guy who was jimmy Olsen in 1978 superman makes a cameo
Both after credit scenes were great especially the one with lex and deathstroke
The fact that lex and deathstroke were supposedly cut from the movie making there appearance that much better
Chrispis Allen appears who is one of the spectre in the comics
Jk Simmons was great
That one scene when batman is scarring that one guy so the parademon will show up was pretty neato
Plot was fine didn’t like it or hate it was a bit cliche I’ll but I’ll put it in the like category anyway
Cyborgs new suit at the end
Everyone’s overall costume was pretty good especially the tactical bat suit
Penguin reference was also nice
Rick and Morty appear on a tv screen
That one scene when Bruce tells flash to just save one guy and then he’ll know what to do and he ends up saving everyone
Possible grid reference
Well that’s about it for what I liked now my dislikes
The fact the joss whedden directs a good 1/2 of this movie was only given a screenplay credit
Some reshot scenes look dreadful, aquaman looks like he’s in front of a painting yet he’s just outside at one part
Ezra miller you can tell got a haircut before reshooting
The fact that at the end of BvS it showed supes didn’t die cuz of the dirt floating at the end yet they revive him any way
Not mullet or black suit for supes...guess you could say the mullet was cut
CGI-ing away Henry cavills mustache looks pretty bad
The fact that supes is evil at first yet when he sees Lois *boom* he’s good again
That Russian family that’s trapped was really unnecessary
When aquaman saves the league from drowning how did he know where they were?
When cyborg is stalking Bruce and Diana how did he know where they were?
The fact that mr stone thinks cyborg can have a normal life even though he’s more of a robot then general grievous
Steppenwolfs face
The fact that wheddon tried making batman funny throughout the film which is fine sometimes like occasionally in The DCAU but it doesn’t work here
Pacing was pretty bad, it all went by real fast and some stuff kinda seemed thrown together, but that’ll happen when the studio makes you cut 45 minutes
1/2 the trailer footage was cut
I still dunno what mother box’s do in this universe
What does that one guy having a bomb have anything to do with anything
Why’s Alfred always a little mad in this movie
Superman asked batman if he bleeds a clear but stupid reference to BvS
Bruce was kinda mean at parts
Willem dafoe was cut
So that’s that
I probably like this film more than most anywho what did you think??
The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Sheffield is on the River Don, but the upper reaches of the river were not navigable. In medieval times, the goods from Sheffield had to be transported overland to the nearest inland port - Bawtry on the River Idle. Later, the lower reaches of the Don were made navigable, but boats could still not reach Sheffield. Proposals to link Sheffield to the navigable Don at Tinsley (and so to the Rivers Ouse and Trent, and to the Humber and the North Sea) were made as early as 1697, but these came to nothing.
In 1815, the Sheffield Canal Company was formed by Act of Parliament in order to construct a canal. The surveyors' recommended route was to leave the River Don at Jordan's Lock, opposite where the "Holmes Cut" of the Don Navigation joins the river and follow the north side of the Don Valley to a basin "in or near Savile Street". When this was put forward the Duke of Norfolk's estate noted that it would preclude coal from their collieries at Tinsley Park and Manor reaching the canal and as the Duke was the largest financial backer of the project an alternative should be sought more favourable to their cause.
The alternative route was on the south side of the Don Valley, to terminate at a basin on the site of the former orchards of Sheffield Castle. This would require two series of locks, one, at Tinsley to raise the level from the river and a second, at Carbrook, to gain the necessary height for a level flow into the city centre. It was suggested that a short branch, known as "The Greenland Arm" should be built to afford access to Tinsley Park Collieries. Although the longer and more expensive option, the Duke's support meant that this route was the one for which parliamentary approval was sought.
The Act of Parliament was passed on 7 June 1815 with 182 subscribers, the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl Fitzwilliam being the largest contributors. The civil engineer William Chapman had prepared the plans, and he became the Engineer for the project, which would cost £76,000.
In 1846 there was a move by the long titled Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hull and Goole Railway to acquire the Sheffield Canal Company and provide itself with a city terminus. Before this deal could be completed the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway came in with an offer which was accepted. The S.& L.J.R. became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and on 22 July 1848 they became the owners of the canal. The canal was transferred to the River Dun Navigation Company by an Act of 28 July 1849 where it was joined by the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and the Dearne and Dove Canal. After fusion with the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway it became the South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Navigation Company.
In 1895 the Sheffield Canal was amalgamated with the River Don Navigation and the Stainforth & Keadby canal to form the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. The following year the facilities at Sheffield were modernised and a new warehouse built straddling the basin.
A portrait of Blythe Duff in 'Ciara' which is at the Traverse Theatre during this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The play is written by David Harrower and directed by Orla O'Loughlin.
You can find out more about the play (and buy tickets) here:
"Grande Progetto Pompei - UNESCO, EU, & MIBAC (02/2013): But, NAPLES' - The Other Forgotten and Neglected Architectural Cultural Heritage: Diocesi di Napoli - CENTRO STORICO di Napoli Patrimonio della Chiesa e dell'Umanità (UNESCO)[2013].
“Il centro antico di ogni città custodisce preziose memorie storiche sulle origini, l’arte, le tradizioni di un popolo. Ciò vale in maniera particolare per Napoli, che può vantare un patrimonio culturale e morale di straordinaria entità; un patrimonio che si snoda spesso attraverso itinerari legati alla fede, come ben sa chiunque abbia ammirato, almeno una volta le chiese, i campanili, le cappelle che adornano le più caratteristiche strade del cuore della città.
Queste ricchezze da tempo corrono il rischio di essere abbandonate e di scomparire dall’orizzonte della cultura cittadina, portando con sé nell’oblio frammenti insostituibili della nostra storia…”.
Così si esprimeva l’Arcivescovo Emerito di Napoli, Card. Michele Giordano, nella presentazione dell’ormai introvabile volume di Maria Caputi “Napoli Rivelata, gli spazi sacri del centro antico”, edito dall’Arcidiocesi di Napoli e dalla Fondazione Napoli Novantanove nel 1994 dalla casa editrice M. D’Auria.
Per recuperare queste ricchezze, almeno alla nostra attenzione, diamo in questa pagina del sito dei Beni Culturali della Diocesi l’elenco completo di tutte le chiese del centro storico di Napoli, aperte o chiuse, in restauro o semplicemente abbandonate o ridotte ad uso profano. Lo facciamo perché le nostre chiese non scompaiano “dall’orizzonte” della nostra cultura. Anche un semplice elenco può rivelarsi un rosario meditato che possiamo recitare richiamando, con il nome delle singole chiese, la fede dei nostri Padri e la nostra storia. Lo faremo seguendo la tradizionale suddivisione in sei quartieri (Pendino, Porto, S. Giuseppe, S. Lorenzo, Vicaria e Mercato), ecc.
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The Art Newspaper (29/01/2013), Corriere Della Sera (21/01/2013 [Video 04:29]), & LA REPUBBLICA (23/11/2012).
- Heritage News Italy: "See Naples before it dies of neglect - Report and protests highlight shoddy state of Unseco World Heritage site'S,"The Art Newspaper (29/01/2013).
The increasingly dire state of conservation of much of Naples’s cultural heritage—its churches, monuments, libraries and palaces—has been highlighted by a damning news report published by one of Italy’s leading papers, the Corriere della Sera, in January [Corriere della Sera > Le Inchieste > > Lo scempio delle chiese di Napoli(21/01/2013)].
The online report revealed an alarming statistic: Naples has around 200 closed and abandoned churches. Some have been stripped of all their furnishings including works of art, some never received the funds they had been promised, while others received them but never embarked on the agreed conservation projects. Others still were closed down, restored and then never opened again.
The report points to years of neglect and mismanagement by the local and national government, as well as by the Church and the regional arm of the ministry of culture.
The city’s historic centre, the largest in Europe, has been listed as a Unesco World Heritage site for the last 17 years, however the city’s residents have long bemoaned the state of their heritage, so much so that a petition, signed by 16 civic committees and 60 leading intellectual figures, was circulated at the end of last year calling for the city to be stripped of its Unesco title.
-- The Art Newspaper (29/01/2013). www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/See-Naples-before-it-die...
- NAPOLI BENI CULTURALI: Lo scempio delle chiese di Napoli: duecento chiuse e abbandonate - Viaggio choc tra gioielli dell'arte dimenticati, depredati, in rovina, a volte addirittura pericolosi. Molte sono diventate negozi, officine o abitazioni. Altre addirittura discariche, Corriere della Sera, (21/01/2013) [Video 04:29].
«So tutt vacant (vuote ndr)... nun c'è rimasto niente. Qua a Napoli nelle chiese hanno fatto stragi». Parola di esperto. E l'esperto, in questo caso è un ex ricettatore di opere d'arte che ha lasciato il carcere da un paio di mesi e che ha promesso di cambiare strada. «Nelle chiese napoletane non c'è più niente perché sono abbandonate ed è stato facile prendersi tutto. Ce ne stanno tantissime chiuse», assicura.
GIOIELLI ABBANDONATI - Duecento chiese chiuse, sprecate. Gioielli spesso abbandonati, dimenticati, depredati, in rovina, a volte addirittura pericolosi. Monumenti al degrado e allo spreco visto che per anni, per il recupero di alcuni di loro, sono stati stanziati milioni di euro. Soldi spesso risultati mai spesi. O castelli di ferro, impalcature ormai definitive il cui affitto non è certo gratuito. Senza contare restauri in corso da oltre 30 anni che non hanno mai consentito l'apertura al pubblico delle chiese, come nel caso di Sant'Agostino alla Zecca o della chiesa di Sant'Aniello a Caponapoli, ristrutturata per decine di anni, inaugurata l'anno scorso ma perennemente chiusa.
Accade a Napoli, nel centro storico, area patrimonio dell'Unesco, cioè patrimonio dell'Umanità. Attraversando i decumani ogni cento metri ci si imbatte in una chiesa e nella metà dei casi di tratta di strutture antiche, ricche e inaccessibili. «Ne trovi anche una difronte all'altra, come nel caso Di San Giovanni Battista delle Monache e di Santa Maria delle Grazie», spiega Antonio Pariante presidente del comitato civico di Santa Maria di Portosalvo e appassionato conoscitore del centro antico napoletano.
-- Corriere della Sera, (21/01/2013) [Video 04:29]. www.corriere.it/inchieste/scempio-chiese-napoli-duecento-...
- NAPOLI BENI CULTURALI: Luce sulle chiese negate il calendario Di Meo 2013 - Basiliche, cappelle, chiostri che i napoletani stessi e pure i turisti conoscono appena. L'album "L'anima del tempo - Chiese napoletane: rovine e recuperi" è stato realizzato dal fotografo Massimo Listri [FOTO 1 di 12], LA REPUBBLICA / NAPOLI (23/11/2012).
Undicesima edizione del Calendario Di Meo, un'avventura estetica che dalle colline irpine - lì dove nasce e agisce l'omonima azienda vitivinicola - ha attraversato prima il golfo napoletano, poi i monumenti di Roma e Palermo. Quindi le strade parigine e i quartieri newyorchesi. Fino ad accarezzare le piazze madrilene, i sobborghi di Marrakech e le architetture di Berlino. Oggi, però, è tempo di ritornare a Napoli e alla sua storia millenaria, specialmente quella custodita dalle chiese chiuse. Magari lasciandosi ispirare dall'articolo "La morte delle cattedrali" che cent'anni fa Marcel Proust firmò per "Le Figaro" in difesa delle chiese francesi.
-- LA REPUBBLICA / NAPOLI (23/11/2012).
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-- "GRANDE PROGRAMMA CENTRO STORICO UNESCO - NAPOLI / esplora la mappa degli interventi," Comune di Napoli (2009).
www.centrostorico.na.it/index_mappa.htm
-- CHIESA DI NAPOLI (2013): CENTRO STORICO di Napoli Patrimonio della Chiesa e dell'Umanità (UNESCO) = L' atrio dell' insula episcopalis di Napoli: problemi di architettura e topografia paleocristiana e altomedievale di C. Ebanista, in Tardo Antico e Alto Medioevo: filologia, storia, archeologia, arte, a cura di M. ROTILI, Napoli 2009, pp. 307-375 (per gentile concessione dell'autore [PDF pp. 1-13]).
www.chiesadinapoli.it/pls/napoli/v3_s2ew_consultazione.mo...
-- ITALIA | NAPOLI BENI CULTURALI: "VANISHING ACTS - See Naples before it dies." NEWSWEEK (10/04/2006), p.52 [PDF].
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St Ethelbert, Thurton, Norfolk
Thurton is quite a large place, and just above the busy Norwich to Beccles road, but you wouldn't know it from this way in. The church stands below the village top road, the houses hidden in the valley, an incinerator chimney the only incongruous intervention in the landscape.
St Ethelbert is a very curious shape. The little tower appears to grow out of the thatch, and it also appears that they ordered it in the wrong size, and didn't bother to send it back. It is in two stages - at nave level it is probably 13th century, but the top bit is more recent. I've seen it described as early 16th century, and this would fit in with a bequest, but it looks 18th century to me, possibly early 19th. It is one of those small towers that looks as if it was specifically designed for bell-ringing, although all the bells are early. While puzzling over this, don't be distracted from the super headstops to the windows on the south side of the nave.
In common with several churches around here, St Ethelbert has a stunning Norman south entrance, this one in particularly good condition. I love the way that later generations have enhanced the archway by adding to the decoration - one pattern in particular, on the east side of the doorway, must have taken hours. There is a simpler Norman doorway on the north side, but it is through the south door you enter.
The building is continuous, without a transition between nave and chancel, although you can see a large arch about two thirds of the way along which probably once held a tympanum to divide the two. I would guess that the western part is pretty much the original Norman church, disguised by later windows. The roodcreen cannot have been very big, and its shallow stairway embrasure suggest the stairs were wooden and part of the structure of the screen.
This building has two great delights, and several minor ones. Firstly, the St Christopher on the north wall. It was uncovered in the late 1980s, and at first sight appears disappointingly indistinct. On closer inspection though, there are a lot of the details which have now faded from St Christophers which have been exposed for a century or more. In particular, the azure blue of the water, and the multitude of creatures in it. I spotted a lobster, a crab, several eels, a flounder, what looks like a pike, and many others. You often see ghosts of such things in other churches, and Cautley records a similar menagerie at Mutford, just over the Suffolk border, in the 1930s, but they have all faded now.
Up at the top, look at the way the Christchild sits on the Saint's shoulders. It is most unusual - Christ is actually behind the Saint, holding his orb in a gesture of reigning in majesty. The style of the child puts this painting very late, perhaps as late as the early 16th century. They have begun to uncover other wall paintings in this church, and although nothing is understandable yet, the figure immediately to the east of the St Christopher is obviously much earlier, which may mean it is part of a hagiography, many of which came to be frowned upon in the 14th and 15th centuries, being replaced by more doctrinal paintings. There is probably part of it under the St Christopher.
The other thing that makes Thurton remarkable is the collection of glass. Books credit it with being from Rouen cathedral, but actually it is much more interesting than that. It came partly from the collection of a Norwich antiquarian, partly from the Beauchamp Proctor family who donated similar glass to the churches at nearby Chedgrave and Langley. It was installed here in the 1820s. It does include some Rouen glass, but there is also a 15th century English Holy Trinity, and a set of Instruments of the Passion. The little roundels depicting one line homilies may well have come from the refectory of Langley Priory. Further, Chris Harrison tells me that there is surviving work here of the remarkable Lowestoft stained glass artist Robert Allen who was one of the earliest exponents of the medium in the years that the English were first rediscovering it. His are the eight Saints in the west window, as well as the Man of Sorrows in the south of the nave, St Andrew in the east window and a number of other pieces on the south side.
Much of the rest is collected continental glass, but some of it is the work of Samuel Yarrington, who installed all the glass here in the church. Notably his is the church's Royal Arms of George IV, which are in glass on the north side of the chancel.
Perhaps most curious of all, however, is the font. It is elegant and plain, and unusual in that its style dates from the later years of the 17th century. Probably, it was installed to replace one destroyed during the Commonwealth. From before the Commonwealth is a sweet little brass plate to Thomas Gould, who died in 1631. It sits on the south wall, vestiges of wall painting behind it. I loved the memorial to Captain Margarum and his various relatives up in the chancel, particularly as it depicts his boat sailing across the top. DD tells me that the other Margarum memorial facing it is most unusual, in that the obelisk is white outlined in grey rather than the reverse.
I thought this was a lovely church, although perishingly cold; barely 6 degrees outside, it was considerably colder inside, and I wondered what it would take to make me sit inside it every winter Sunday.
But its such a pretty truck and of course the sworders name was also associated with the Coach industry. Seen at Truckfest Midlands and wales B9SWO a Volvo FH16 - 750. Photo taken 29/06/19
Ex-BR Class 11 diesel shunter 12088, to be named Shirley, receives attention outside the locomotive shed at the Aln Valley Railway Project's Alnwick Lionheart site. The 0-6-0 DM locomotive was built at Derby Works in 1951. She was purchased privately in 2012 from Butterwell Disposal Point. Alnwick Lionheart station will be constructed to the left of the Class 11, with the shed spur continuing forward to meet the 'main line' shortly before it descends steeply to rejoin the original solum. The AVRP aims to reinstate in four phases the two-and-a-half-mile branch line linking Alnmouth and Alnwick. Opened in 1850, it was abandoned in 1968.