Well, it's that time of year again. Off on the holiday trail for a week. Past expeditions have been described as "Withnail & I without the witty dialogue", and who knows, we may hit those heady heights again. We shall see ( Read more... )

Another one taken during my holidays in July this year. This one is basically testimony to my ability to be amazed by actually not-all-that-amazing things and to make up stories about things I'm unfamiliar with.

Apologies for the quality of the photos; they were taken through the windscreen of a car parked behind Carlisle Castle:


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Another post of the What I Did On My Summer Holidays variety. Here's Hadrian's Wall, or what's left of it:


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Well, I have returned and, to be honest, despite my dire expectations the weather last week in the vicinity of Penrith and Keswick was much better than we could have hoped for; grey but dry last Saturday, Sunday, Monday, admittedly peeing down on Tuesday, but really rather bright and sunny for the rest of the week (although on Thursday I was ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to the Lake District for a week's holiday - I'll be incommunicado for that time (and possibly under water depending on how the severe weather warnings pan out), so I'll leave you with this picture I took the last time I was up there, back in 2010. This is the very southern tip of Lake Windermere, and I don't know, I just like the view ( Read more... )

Back in the summer of 2007, myself and a couple of like-minded associates, still flushed with the success of our epic daytrip to the Imperial War Museum site at Duxford the previous year (Liverpool to Cambridgeshire and back again in one day, by road - don't try it!) decided that the next obvious step was an expedition to Bovington Tank Museum in ( Read more... )

"Thing" is probably a bit harsh, but anyway...

I know what it is to live in fear. I know what it is to live under the harsh iron jackboot of oppression, to be the servant - although "servant" implies free labour as opposed to possibly the more descriptive word which is slave - of a violent and capricious tyrant with a mile-wide streak of pure sadism ( Read more... )

For lost_spook, we open with a picture of Rhuddlan Castle, in northeastern Wales, taken iirc sometime during the summer of 2010:


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Hello there. Just to say - I've finally decided on a subject for the 100 Things challenge I signed up to back in April, and plan to start posting very soon. After toying with a couple of ideas (I've got a couple of half-finished meta things about Doctor Who that I might post on here anyway if I ever complete them), I've decided to go with something ( Read more... )

Taken from my flist member clocketpatch:


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