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After my recent return to The Netherlands, I've been building more and more models with a Dutch theme.
This one is a part of that, obviously. This type of helicopter is used by the Royal Netherlands Navy for anti-submarine warfare, supporting the Royal Dutch Marines and Search-And-Rescue above the North Sea. It's also my entry for the current 'Rescue' build challenge on the flickr military group.
Elgin depot is the next depot to go through repaints into the new Stagecoach local livery with the E200MMC fleet going first.
26131 shows off the new colours as it heads out of service to the outskirts of Elgin to start on the PM 33A.
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From a recent walk at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve. This and other pictures from the afternoon/evening are featured on today's imagine childhood blog. Thanks to imagine childhood for including me! Check out their blog for some other naturey goodness.
I promise I'm about to catch up on everyone's streams, this evening, maybe? Or tomorrow. Until then, I have something of an unholy day of obligations today. It's what I get for letting everything go until the last minute, I suppose.
The Tesco shopper services operated by Country Bus have in recent times been operated by former Plymouth Citybus Dennis Dart, M129HOD, however that bus was put up for sale on Ebay recently, its free bus duties being taken on now by Mercedes-Benz Vario, YN05DWA. Apparently the bus is only to be a shortish term fill in until they bring in a replacement bus, something slightly easier to access for the older passengers with their shopping carts!
The Plaxton Beaver 2 bodied Vario is pictured at Shiphay's Haywain Pub with the return working from Newton Abbot.
Company: Country Bus of Heathfield
Registration: YX05DWA
New: 2005
Chassis: Mercedes-Benz 0814D Vario
Bodywork: Plaxton Beaver 2 B33F
Route: T3 (Newton Abbot, Tesco-Barton, Happaway Road)
Location: Haywain Queensway, Shiphay, Torquay
History: New to Hutchinson of Easingwold
Exposure: 1/320 @ f5.6 400ISO
Date: 26 January 2016
Diamond's BX07 AYU (30006) is seen waiting time at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, before taking a 55 back to Redditch Bus Station. It is the third B7RLE/Centro to be allocated to Redditch, the other two being (30406) YN08 NXL and (30821) BX09 SHZ. This Wessex branded Centro still carries its Wessex legals and didn't have anything in the windows to say it's a Diamond vehicle, and so usually stays on the S77 school service. However, yesterday (21/10/17) and today (22/10/17), it has been used in public service. On the 21st, I saw it on the 58 and on the 22nd, it replaced a Solo on the 55. BX07AYU April 2007 to Flights Hallmark (before being renamed to the Rotala PLC), for use on the Bristol Park & Ride service. When new it had the fleetnumber 7006. It has also worn branding for the X27 (Yate-Bristol City Centre). It was quite a good thrash and the driver thought it was a good drive. It is a Volvo B7RLE/Plaxton Centro.
A recent repaint into the new livery is 27602, seen here on Ellon Road at the former AECC now a church on the X60.
French postcard by Editions Mercuri, no. 634. Spanish poster for Another Country (Marek Kanievska, 1984).
British actor Rupert Everett (1959) grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning. He had his breakthrough in Another Country (1984) as an openly gay student at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films including The Comfort of Strangers (1990), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and An Ideal Husband (1999).
Rupert James Hector Everett was born in Burnham Deepdale, Great Britain to Major Anthony Michael Everett and his wife Sara née Maclean. He has a brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett. Everett was brought up as a Roman Catholic. From the age of seven, Everett was educated at Farleigh School, Hampshire, and from the age of thirteen was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire. At this prestigious Roman Catholic public school. he trained classically on the piano. He dropped out of school at 16 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a male prostitute for drugs and money. After being dismissed from the Central School of Speech and Drama ((University of London) for clashing with his teachers, he travelled to Scotland and got a job at the avant-garde Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow. Everett's break came in 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre and later West End production of 'Another Country', playing a gay schoolboy opposite Kenneth Branagh. His character, Guy Bennett, is based on the double agent Guy Burgess. The play was filmed, Another Country (Marek Kanievska, 1984) with Cary Elwes and Colin Firth. Brian J. Dillard at AllMovie: “Rupert Everett and Colin Firth give strong, economical performances as the homosexual dandy and the fervent Marxist who, for different reasons, chafe at the restrictions of their society. Both characters are callow and self-absorbed, but Firth's principled thinker and Everett's ambitious romantic undergo subtle transformations that make them ultimately sympathetic.” He followed on with Dance With a Stranger (Mike Newell, 1985), based on the true story of Ruth Ellis (Portrayed by Miranda Richardson), the last woman to be executed in England. In Italy, he starred in the Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Cronaca di una morte annunciata/ Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Francesco Ros, 1987i) with Ornella Muti. Everett began to develop a promising film career until he co-starred with Bob Dylan in the huge flop Hearts of Fire (Richard Marquand, 1987). Around the same time, Everett recorded and released an album of pop songs entitled Generation of Loneliness. Despite being managed by the largely successful pop svengali Simon Napier-Bell (who steered Wham! to international fame), the public didn't take to his change in direction. The shift was short-lived, and he would only return to pop indirectly by providing backing vocals for his friend Madonna on her 1999 cover of 'American Pie' and on the track 'They Can't Take That Away from Me' on Robbie Williams' 'Swing When You're Winning' in 2001. Following this flop, Everett disappeared for a while, taking up residence in Paris and writing a semi-autobiographical novel, 'Hello, Darling, Are You Working?'. He also came out as gay.
Rupert Everett returned to the screen opposite Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren in The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990). He was successful as the fat and lazy Prince of Wales (the later George IV) in The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner, 1994), and appeared among the all star cast of Prêt-à-Porter (Robert Altman, 1994). The Italian comics character Dylan Dog, created by Tiziano Sclavi, is graphically inspired by him. Everett appeared in a film adaptation, Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi, 1994) as a killer of zombies. In 1995 he released a second novel, 'The Hairdressers of St. Tropez'. His film career was revitalized by his award-winning performance in the comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1997), playing Julia Roberts's gay friend. Robert Firsching at AllMovie: “Rupert Everett is terrific as Roberts' gay confidant, and there are some surprising scenes, including a woman with her tongue stuck to an ice sculpture in a most untoward location. It was a huge hit at the box office, with enough genuine romance to satisfy purists and enough bite for those with a slightly different attitude.”Everett has since appeared in a number of high-profile film roles, including as Christopher Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998), Lord Arthur Goring in An Ideal Husband (Oliver Parker, 1999) and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Michael Hoffman, 1999). In 1999, he also played Madonna's best friend in The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger. 1999), and the villainous Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw in Disney's Inspector Gadget (David Kellogg, 1999) with Matthew Broderick.
Rupert Everett became a Vanity Fair contributing editor and wrote a film screenplay on playwright Oscar Wilde's final years. He also appeared in another film adaptation of a Wilde play, The Importance of Being Earnest (Oliver Parker, 2002) with Colin Firth. Later roles include his royal portrayals in To Kill a King (Mike Barker, 2003) and Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre, 2004), In 2006, he published a memoir, 'Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins', in which he revealed he had a six-year affair with British television presenter Paula Yates. Since then, Everett lead the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, played a double role in the film St. Trinian's (Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson, 2007) and the sequel St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson, 2009), and has appeared several times on TV, causing regularly some outrage. In recent years, Everett has returned to his acting roots appearing in several theatre productions; He made his Broadway debut in 2009 in the Noël Coward play 'Blithe Spirit', starring alongside Angela Lansbury. During the summer of 2010, he played in a revival of 'Pygmalion' as Professor Henry Higgins at the Chichester Festival Theatre and reprised this role in 2011, at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End, starring alongside Diana Rigg as Higgins's mother and Kara Tointon as Eliza.
Rupert Everett went on to play Oscar Wilde in 'The Judas Kiss' in 2013 and was about to play George on Broadway in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' when the play closed before it officially opened due to the COVID pandemic in 2020. On TV, he played the effortlessly suave Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Simon Cellan Jones, 2004), the Marquis de Feron in the British series The Musketeers (2016) and Carroll Quinn in a second British series Adult Material (Dawn Shadforth, 2020). Known for his aloof handsomeness and often smug, piss-elegant characters, he engagingly portrayed a jet-setter in the contemporary film People (Fabien Onteniente, 2004); provided the voice of the unprincely Prince Charming in the animated features Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon, 2004) and Shrek the Third (Chris Miller, Raman Hui, 2007); played a British defector opposite Sharon Stone in the romantic thriller A Different Loyalty (Marek Kanievska, 2004) and a millionaire playboy involved in a hit-and-run in Separate Lies (Julian Fellowes, 2005). He also has a part in the comedy film Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn, 2010), starring Bill Nighy, and the comedy Hysteria (Tanya Wexler, 2011) about the first vibrator. He appeared as King George VI (father of Queen Elizabeth) opposite Emily Watson's Queen Mum in the romantic dramedy A Royal Night Out (Julian Jarrold, 2015). He also played a monsignor in Altamira (Hugh Hudson, 2016) opposite Antonio Banderas. He wrote and directed The Happy Prince (Rupert Everett, 2018), in which he also starred as tortured gay playwright Oscar Wilde during his last days. His co-star was Colin Firth, the co-star of his film debut, Another Country. Although Rupert Everett urged in 2009 gay stars not to 'come out' and to keep their sexuality a secret as it could end their film career’, he himself is a living testament disproving the theory that a truly talented and successful romantic leading man cannot survive the career-killing stigma of being openly gay.
Sources: Brian J. Dillard (AllMovie), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Recent dot spotting - from left to right:
Slipping between the encroaching cloud cover, Westjet's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner C-GUDO decends through 8,000 feet while heading into London's Gatwick Airport from Toronto as 'WS9514'
Climbing through 25,000 feet, as 'Ascot 1909', Royal Air Force No.32(TR)Squadron's BAe146 ZE707 heads out across the South Coast for Europe
Passing traffic plying Airways over North Surrey and Kent were:
(top)
Royal Jordanian Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner JY-BAB trails East at 39,000 feet as 'RJ268' on her way from Montreal to Amman,
while 3,000 feet below her
Air France Boeing 777-228(ER) F-GSPX trails west as 'AF74' from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Vancouver
276A4579, 276A4642 & 276A4643
Mostly modern stuff in this batch, but still some good ones here. The highlights:
The set of four chrome Grand Marquis (back row) were an unusual find...someone dumped them on the roadside, maybe because they were sick of hearing the ticking noises that those caps always make! All have curb scrapes and no center caps, and most of the plastic lug caps are missing, but I took them because they're uncommon and I don't have any. There are enough lug caps to make one complete one that can be sold, and I do have a center cap for it.
The new Jetta (rear left) is near mint. Two-tone RAV4 and Civic are also excellent. Both of those were quick stops on the highway, and I was skeptical that they would turn out to be good, so I was pleasantly surprised.
The bolt-on 17" Chrysler 300 is scratched but has good bolt holes, and is the only one I have. I find a fair amount of bolt-on Chryslers, but they almost always have broken bolt holes, so I rarely take one.
I've never had a SCHOOL BUS license plate before, so I took that one in spite of the poor condition. I'm not really into plates as much as some collectors, but I'll take them if they're nice or interesting
This is Candice.
I was tagged by my pal TRAE.
1. I'm listening to Gnarls Barkley, and I can't figure out why YouTube put things that AREN'T GB on their Gnarls playlist....But I mean, that's cool.
2. My head has been messed with too much by one person this week -_-'
3. I got my drivers license last week :D
4. I cannot wait to begin my second 52 project :) Spoiler? I might focus it around dreams,
5. which is a subject that fascinates me. I love knowing why I dream what I dream and why we dream and I'm not sure if I've said this fact about me before...
6. I'm about to go to bed. And it's only 9:00. I love not having any homework.
7. The voice inside my head is braver than I am. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a meek little thing and I will say what's on my mind, but still. Who's little head-voice isn't braver than they are?
8. I love autumn.
9. I have a TMNT backpack. It's just a turtle shell. Again, I don't know if I've mentioned this fact before or not. It makes me laugh, because I'm STILL being asked where I got it and if they can pet it. People will talk about it when they're walking behind me, as if I can't hear them saying how awesome it is. The best, however, was when someone was telling my friend how they saw a girl with a turtle shell backpack, and proceeded to show her the picture they took on their cell phone only to be told that she knows me.
10. I don't have anything else to say, really.
I'm tagging the 10 contacts with the most recent photos in my little contact doohickey.
Luton & District Leyland National 537 turns into Luton Bus station, working in from Hitchin in August 1991.
Not much of this scene exists today; the bus has long-gone, whilst Eddie's Bar (formerly The Midland) was finally demolished in July 2015 following years of dereliction. The vantage point, from the car park above the bus station, is also no more.
Pentax MX/135mm
Kodachrome 64
Bought from a Singaporean BL seller, they arrived last week amidst the water problems at my house... I guess they didn't mind the chaos a bit...
**RECENT TRANSFER**
Go Ahead London (Metrobus) WVL359 LX60DWK Route 127
From Northumberland Park (NP) To Croydon (C)
Is this not, like, THE perfect shirt for me?
Only trouble is, I found it in the Junior's section, so I'll have to transfer the graphic onto a (slightly) larger shirt... LOLz