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A pair of garden shears gets the Reading Reading Repair Cafe treatment on the tool sharpening table, courtesy of Peter Wheat. Reading Repair Cafe held on 19th January 2014 at RVA, Highbridge House. Taken as part of Challenge Friday, theme edge
Using the Simon Says Stamp "Hearts Parade" die, the "Get Well Soon" cut file set by Miss Kate Cuttables, and the Hero Arts "Everyday Sayings" stamp set.
Featured in the "Get Well Soon" blog post at Nina-Marie Design (ninamariedesign.com/2015/03/01/get-well-soon/)
Shadows getting long. Knole Park.
Nellie Vin ©Photography.
Knole House is an English country house in the civil parish of Sevenoaks in west Kent. Sevenoaks consists of the town itself and then Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) park, within which the house is situated.
Loved it when she started to smile... just slowly at first.
Taken at the History Alive weekend at Fort Lytton.
Beautiful sunset today. Second Beach, Stanley Park.
I'm not the only one trying to get a good shot!
Used the in-camera popart filter to enhance the colours.
Valentine's Day Series 1 Pt2
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Welcome to Tuesday.
You are welcome to it.
And something exciting happening later, but for now, there is the usual, get up, get dressed, drink coffee and be ready for work at seven.
Jools wasn't going swimming, so she had a shower then got dressed before heading off just before seven.
When we looked out the back of the house, the sky was black with cloud, except for a small band of clear sky just above the trees on the other side of the valley, and in that gap was the blood red sliver of the waning moon.
And was then gone.
And so with Cleo watching on, I set up the office.
I learn that Denmark at two inches of snow and is still very cold. We actually are due to have sunshine, though ten degrees cooler than a week before.
Now the interesting bit.
At the end of the Deal Road into Dover, is the Duke of York's roundabout with the Duke of York's pub behind it. Why'd they have that name?
Well, behind both is the Duke of York's Military School, a huge site stretching from here to Fort Bergoyne, then to Guston. The school was founded here in 1909 and was a place where the children of military personnel were taught while their parents were posted, probably overseas.
It is still 100% for boarders, but no longer under the control of the MOD, but has a strong military ethic. I'm not going to judge.
Anyway.
The project to photograph Kent churches is mainly for parish church, but if I can get to see otheres: RC, Baptist or whatever, I'll take it.
Last September, for the first time, The Duke of Yorks Military School took part in Heritage Weekend. Sadly, I found out too late to get on a tour, but I struck up e mail correspondence with the organiser and he agreed that I could come and take shots.
Clashes of dates meant that I had to wait two months, but today was the day, and weather full of low winter sunshine. Although shadows inside were very striking.
The school was built here when it moved from Chelsea in 1909, designed by Sir Henry Tanner in the "Hampstead Garden Suburb" style. The entire complex is pretty much of all the same date and style, with the exception of two newer academic buildings.
Focal point is the large clock tower, which has just been renovated.
The chapel has several war memorials dedicated to pupils who gave their lives for their country.
I was met at reception after driving round the ring road past the athletics track and several of the boarding houses. I was met by the guy I had been writing to, he guessed I was Ian as I was laden with camera gear.
The chapel was on the other side of the road, and is a fine example of early 20th century design, the rest of the school is all of a similar style too.
He lets me get on with my task of taking shots, while he tells me some of the history of the school and chapel.
It is very well maintained, with a fairly new rood, but the rest is original and very well kept.
I took a 100 shots or so, said thanks and was gone, all in under an hour.
I went to Tesco to buy unch and came away with: a turkey and stuffing sandwich, a spicy bean wrap and a pack of spicy paprika crisps. Don't shop when you're hungry, kids.
Back home for lunch and back to work, where not much had happened.
On the tellybox at the same time as working, Saudi beat Argentina 2-1 after being a goal down.
Football, eh?
And then two dull 0-0 draws, so once work was done, I decided to go out for a walk.
Not far, just up and down the four streets in the estate, nearly 6,000 steps.
Feeing better.
We had warmed through stuffed peppers again for dinner, and were again totes amazeballs.
As was the wine.
And there was time for one more game to watch as music played on the cat's whiskers.
Phew.
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Last September, for the first time, The Duke of Yorks Military School took part in Heritage Weekend. Sadly, I found out too late to get on a tour, but I struck up e mail correspondence with the organiser and he agreed that I could come and take shots.
Clashes of dates meant that I had to wait two months, but today was the day, and weather full of low winter sunshine. Although shadows inside were very striking.
The school was built here when it moved from Chelsea in 1909, designed by Sir Henry Tanner in the "Hampstead Garden Suburb" style. The entire complex is pretty much of all the same date and style, with the exception of two newer academic buildings.
Focal point is the large clock tower, which has just been renovated.
The chapel has several war memorials dedicated to pupils who gave their lives for their country.
It should be open again in September 2023 for Heritage Day.
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In 1801, His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York laid the foundation stone in Chelsea of what was to become The Duke of York's Royal Military School, a school for the children of military personnel which opened in 1803. Then in 1909, the school relocated to its present site in Dover, Kent and in 2010, we became the first full state boarding academy, opening our doors to any family wishing to choose this unique and iconic school for their child’s secondary education.
Craft Guerrilla were also on hand stitching up a storm, helping visitors sew their own suffragette rosette.
stamps:
bird from clear stamp set by Autumn Leaves
'Get Well Soon' from clear stamp set by Inkadinkado
design papers and elements:
Just Breathe by Kelley Mickus (The Digichick)
other supplies:
blue cardstock by Bazzill
blue satin ribbon from Poppicrafts
distressing tool by Tim Holtz
Stardust Stickles by Ranger
Distress inks in Broken China by Ranger
Versafine ink in Vintage Sepia by Tsukineko
paper piercing tool from stash
white gel pen by Sakura
pop dots from stash
sketch by Laura Davis for 2 Sketches 4 You
using a Simon Says Stamp background stamp with some Hero Arts inks
entering into the challenge on the Flickr group.
This was once someones pride and joy but it's now being knocked down for the land value and probably a monstrosity will rise in its place.
The rusty old letterbox is still full of letters. Not much recycling going on here :-(
Every time Stacy and I go back to Antelope we see and feel something different. He has probably been there 8-10 times and the facination is never lost.
Get yourself out of that office chair and into the woods. Discover what you didn't. Look around for what you are missing and you will be amazed
Halloween was almost here already!This Bikin witch from Snow White is working on making things spooky.
I wanted to get my 365 out of the way early (is that sad?) because today's gonna be a busy one. Hence, a snapshot of some of my get-ready stuff, which makes me appear to love pink a lot more than I do. In reality, I'm feeling pretty much the opposite of this photo. I'd love nothing more than to wear pajamas to work today. Or, better yet, stay in my pajamas at home.
365 - Day 35
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Taken the day I bought it. After selling one of the bikes I won in a raffle for $250, I figured I'd have enough after selling the second one to buy this interesting "comfort" bike. I liked it a lot. Very leisurely, good hill climber and not bad on the flats. It feels like it gets up some speed, but I didn't have a speedometer on it. Today it got stolen. Yeah, I'm seriously bummed. I parked it the same place I always do when I went to my sign language class, but no one touched my stickered up hippie bike. It's a three hour class so plenty of time for someone to see it, go home, get their bolt cutter and pick-up truck and nab it. I had a medium heavy cable lock on it, but that's nothing to a bolt cutter. Even the U-locks can be sabotaged. I'm ordering another one because I'm made of money. That's a joke. These are a closeout model so I got it for $400 plus tax. They still have one left.
This will be the fourth bike I've had stolen. (Two were returned by police because they were taken by joyriders who didn't want them and I had registered them.) You think I woulda learned. This class was actually the only place where I would leave my bike outside for longer than an hour. It seemed quiet and not in view of the street, just the parking lot and hidden by the stairwell. I was lulled into a false sense of habit with the old bike.
My station wagon also died. Had a starter hanging on by one bolt. Alternater bad too. I seriously considered not having a combustion engine car at all. So called up my Sparrow mechanic. He was working on it over Thanksgiving weekend. Said he was close. Been nearly a year gone. Catherine had been suggesting we share the Prius. Then we can have one less car just like it says on the bumber sticker. Which was why I wanted another bike to have some variety in riding position. Whenever lots of things go terribly awry, my wu wu fung shui colleague always tells me Mars was in retrograde. But I think this was worse than the usual can't get things done. This was blowing a few fuses.
I ebayed a new (used) computer too, since this one was going narcoleptic on me and I had to give it a rest after my ebay frenzy. So if I'm gone for a few days it's become unstable again.
If i wanted to get a capable and luxurious van to transport a group of people in, it would no doubt have to be with a Mercedes-Benz badge (Either Viano or new V-Class). I sat in a new 2016 V-Class the other week, and i was amazed by the sheer luxury it oozed inside. This Viano was registered to the city of Duisburg, located within the Ruhr Area of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the van appeared to have been purchased from a Mercedes dealer withint
York, United Kingdom