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.

 

Merry Christmas Everyone

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.

 

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...but this time in pink

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

 

(Andrew Bird, Wait - alt. dw)

(consiglio vivamente l'ascolto per godere di 3 minuti senza tempo.)

But with eyes shut, it's you I'm thinkin' of.

But how we move from A to B?

it can't be up to me 'cause you don't know.

Little Bit - Lykke Li

 

I might replace this with just the top photo...Idunno if I like this as a diptych :/

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

 

STUFF GETS DONE HERE!

beach is her fav place, but she's too old to enjoy much... :(

I'm never going to move it alone...

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.

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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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ask me

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plz don't use my pictures without my permission ♥

 

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.

But that little brat is gone missing again! I think she ran off to Lombok. yeaaaaah... that's purely my influence! but she owes me a new logo.

 

Speaking of NEW... Reason I've been MIA lately is because I've been putting together my new site ok... more of a blog, than a REAL site... but work with me...

 

It's not done yet, and has lots of big gaping holes of missing info, but it puts more pressure on me to finish it, if I go public already, so there it is. Check it out; feedback is super welcome :)

www.carlinateteris.com

both kendalls-7.5 fit me comfy at a 9

freeks-8.5

intensitys-8.5 fit 9

rulons-8.5

takedowns-9

- but a dry summer isn't =)

 

The Wave is a very small but incredibly scenic area in northern Arizona right on the Utah border, about 30 miles west of Page, Arizona. The Wave is on BLM land and requires a permit (if you don't have one you can face a Federal fine) and getting a permit involves either an online lottery (10 permits per day) or a walk-in at the Paria Ranger station (also 10 a day for the next day). I have been skunked about six times in the past so it was a real treat to finally win one.

 

The day before I went to The Wave in early April 2010 a major storm was coming in from the Pacific - the NWS posted severe wind warnings for my day and they were dead-on accurate. The winds were about 30 mph most of the day with higher gusts and colder temps (it went from 70 to 40 in one day). In spite of this I ventured out with permit, camera, GPS, and adventure in mind.

 

It's only about three miles from the trail head to The Wave - piece of cake except the wind created sandstorms - it was like being marooned in the Sahara Desert. Absolutely nasty - it felt like being sand blasted the whole way in. The wind was so strong it nearly blew me over a few times - taking photos was an effort because I had to time it for when the wind died down for a few seconds.

 

I planned to spend the entire day in the area but after about 4 hours it was time to head out - it was freezing (even for an Alaskan), sand was in everything (eyes, ears, teeth and cameras among other things, and the sky to the west was pitch black with the storm coming in. I made it back to the trail head just as it started to rain.

 

There is so much in the area to see - Top Rock, the Teepees, and other incredible formations so I will definitely have to go back again. If you have the chance to win a permit - go for it. Despite the lousy conditions I would go back there in a heartbeat!

 

Enjoy and good luck

but algea grows on the north side of my shed. all sanded now

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.

  

All these photos can also be seen on my new Facebook page...

www.facebook.com/LiverpoolThenAndNow

 

Please feel free to add any comments, corrections, additional info or memories you may have, and if you know anyone else who might be interested, please feel free to let them know about it.

 

I have contacted the owners of as many 'original' photos as I can to ask their permission to use it in this way, and where they have requested it, I have credited them accordingly. However, if you are the copyright holder and I haven't yet been able to contact you, please do get in touch and I'd be happy to add any details, credits or links, or remove the photo if you wished..

 

Thanks for looking, I hope they are of some interest!

 

© (2015) Schynts Photography

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But I'm still not 100% sure yet

 

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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...

Playing around with material, thread and impromtu embroidery.

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.

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I custom draft patterns for fit and style, and can base your design on a photograph, sketch, or combine multiple inspiration ideas into one great garment!

 

Please feel free to contact me at either site above, I usually respond within 24 hours.

 

Some frequently asked questions:

 

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Yes, I make items in ALL sizes. Every single one. I can custom design something no matter what your height/weight/bra-size etc. I even have experience working with non-average figures including loss of appendages (arms, legs, etc.) and accommodating a severe disability/unusual shape.

 

Yes, i respond to everyone. I will always reply! (if you don't hear from me, i either didn't get the message, or am on a freak internet break)

 

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Yes, I love Project Runway, but no, i don't want to be on it!

 

Yes, I love the odd/strange/weird projects, but I also love the impeccably simple bridal gown as well.

 

No, I do not have a minimum. Small projects are welcome.

 

Yes, I help with the total package. I can help you find the accessories you need to complete the look, and all the underpinnings and other garments you may need to get the right shape for the garment. I like to make sure you are happy with the end result as much as I am.

 

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Thanks for viewing!

 

But only for a minute she had other things to do, trees to climb, toys to dump in the moat....

but it's not for the faint of heart!

 

Photography by Bill

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:

www.etsy.com/ca/shop/EtheraPeril?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Harlow, Essex. Here are the details on the project

 

The Perspex Garden in Harlow, Essex

 

BRIEF:

The clients bought the property from new and had lived at the house for several years. Whilst they had made the interior just as they wanted it, the garden was as it was when the property was built, with some tired lawn and a concrete slab patio that did not provide an appealing environment in which to entertain or relax. The garden is quite shaded and overshadowed by a large brick wall along the back boundary which is part of a car park beyond. The slope also made the garden difficult to use.

SOLUTION:

The design aimed to provide a low maintenance extension of the fresh and breezy style of the interior of this family home. The area level with and adjoining the house was paved with light grey sandstone to give enough space for the client to bring their large dining room table out into the garden when they wish to entertain.

The remainder of the space was floored with softwood decking, raised at one end to combat the slope and unite the garden as a continuous level surface. A slate tile edging separates the sandstone and decked areas. An ‘L’ shaped flush bed containing 4 box balls and a stainless steel water sphere creates a focal point from the house through the double patio doors.

The decked area was enclosed by a softwood timber pergola. This was half-roofed with timber joists onto which blue Perspex panels were fixed. Suspended from the pergola frame is the main feature of the garden – a large, deep, timber swing seat ready for the client to dress with an array of cushions, mattresses and throws.

Aluminium chain curtains hang down either side of the pergola structure to add definition and help to create the illusion of ‘a room in the garden’, a theme re-enforced by three globe lights hanging from the pergola cross beam. Along the left side of the back wall three 90cm high illuminated planters featuring box balls add day- and night-time interest to the space.

This was mirrored on the right side of the back boundary with three non-illuminated white fibreglass planters. The left hand planters were framed by three 3 outdoor canvas fixed to the wall (200cm x 40cm), whilst the right hand planters benefit from a backdrop of backlit blue Perspex panels.

  

If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.

 

Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.

 

Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.

Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.

 

Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.

 

Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.

 

If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.

This images feel like something from Sin City, dark but also bright.

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.

 

but they help : )

 

#2 of the 30 day challenge - What you wore today.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954

youtu.be/Iig-Y_vRwGk?t=2s

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:

 

www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event-detail/220/ciara.aspx

"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).

 

napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/11/23/news/luce_sulle_c...

 

napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/11/23/foto/luce_sulle_c...

 

-- "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].

 

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/8449546840/in...

   

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.

But someone has found a good place to enjoy the sunshine.

7DOS water Thursday