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I told the kids I would build them a Lego castle. The goal was playability and not display. I have never tried anything quite so ambitious. I tried to limit myself to the Lego on hand but ultimately had to get some Pick-a-Brick and Ebay additions. Despite that the castle uses three colors of gray and a mishmash of styles. I tried to build in ways I had never built before. Some of it works; some of it doesn't.
My daughter built the Queen's garden and the feast on the top of the Keep. My eldest son built the armory. The older twin boy built the Queen's throne and came up with the idea of lining the Queen's tower with shields.
The Keep is three levels. The top (patio) pulls off. Then one can pull off the next level (the armory) to see the Throne room at ground level.
It was a group effort with lots of input by all four kids. They wanted me to take some pictures and put it online so here it is. Now they get to build the village!
I have a feeling that this structure is much older than it looks.
W. Leigh St. between Brook and Judah.
Jackson Ward
Richmond, VA
2006
I love when it's raining... to walk without a destiny... to be lost in my own thoughts... and feel the fresh wind in my face
The huge cylindrical keep of Conisbrough Castle, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Designed by the castle's lord, Hamelin Plantagenet [illegitimate brother of Henry II] in the 12th century [the castle itself goes back much further], it has stood up pretty well over the last 850 years.
See the official website for more history.
There are pictures on the internet that show a pretty good view of the Texas State Capitol as seen looking back toward me from somewhere on this street straight ahead, but it was closed off for what Robin theorized was some sort of film project, and I wasn't going to go down there anyway. This view does manage to capture a very thin slice of Austin life, though.
Austin has a carefully crafted reputation for being "weird," so that it's sort of a version of Portland, Oregon, with cowboy boots. In modern parlance, this means there are lots of quirky bars along streets filled with people making unconventional fashion choices, and the place is more politically and culturally liberal than you'd expect for Texas. Like Portland, I suspect this is mostly hype, but also like Portland, I haven't spent enough time in Austin to really judge for myself. We only stayed long enough to see the capitol. I suspect I'd have liked Austin a lot in my 20s, but that I'm too old for it now.
What I do know about Austin is that it's grown way too fast, probably in part because people my age and younger have dealt with living in a nation built by Boomers by seeking out the kind of Authenticity™ a place like Austin is supposed to offer. In 1990, Austin's population was about 465,000, making it Louisville-sized. The 2016 estimate puts it at slightly more than twice that, at 947,000. About 160,000 of those people, 17% of the total, have gotten to town just since 2010. That works out to a lot of GenXers looking for "something real," with the Millennials pouring in after them hoping to get some of the dregs. Housing in Austin has gotten really expensive.
Robin and I will probably spend a day of a trip on our way someplace else in Austin one of these days, though. We want to see the bats, but this is the wrong time of year.
The soon to be demolished Muirend market and Hamiltons snooker club building on Muirend avenue, Cathcart.
The soon to be demolished Muirend market and Hamiltons snooker club building on Muirend avenue, Cathcart.
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