Need beauty in my life!
Blue sky all day today, I know this because I could see it through the window, didn’t actually get out to enjoy it :( I started work at 6.30am, helping to set up for a special function in the museum - a business social breakfast. I am in awe of my most senior colleague and his ability to appropriate bacon butties from the batch delivered for the event. If we had to be there ready for 7 am then we deserved breakfast too! Illicit bacon barm never tasted so good! I miss living and working someplace pretty and scenic. I currently reside in a grim northern city, built on textiles and trade - it was in its prime in the late 1800’s, been going down hill ever since. I work in the most handsome of the Victoria buildings in the city, sadly it’s located too far away from the nearest grand Victorian park down by the river for me to get to enjoy it in my lunch break. Instead I’m surrounded by bookies, takeaways and pawn brokers… I’ve lived in pretty places before; Scarborough - I had a fantastic view from my seafront museum and got to paddle in the sea after work, glorious! I lived and worked for a year in a YHA on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, a stones throw from the three peaks. I was in New Zealand for three months working in a backpackers in Christchurch (pre-earthquake). Now that’s a beautiful city, or was, I really want to go back and see how it’s fared after the recent big one. I lived in Bradford for three years while I was at uni there and even that was more attractive than where I live now! I have a yearning to live and work in a place that has its own Lonely Planet guidebook! Finished watching ‘Edge of Darkness’, it was rather good. Hasn’t dated at all as the production values were so strong back in the day. Great script and stunningly good cast. Bob Peck is very serious but has a fantastic Yorkshire dour attitude, which apparently he had in real life. On the ‘making of’ extra there a great bit were the writers talking about how the ending went through several rewrites. Now this was a very serious drama about political and environmental conspiracies focused on the then fears about nuclear power. No fantasy element whatsoever other that the ‘ghost’ of the main characters murdered daughter appearing occasionally as a figment of his imagination. Heavily influence by Lovelock’s ‘Gaia’ theories about the planet being one self preserving living entity, the writer had the main character turn into a tree at the end of the story. WTF? Bob Peck thought exactly the same and refused to do it, top man! I have a great memory for actor’s faces and enjoy spotting them when they appear in different films and programmes. I was visiting my brother at the weekend and stumbled across ‘Jurassic Park’ on TV, and who should be playing the game keeper chap - Bob Peck! Such a shame he died when he was only in his fifties according to IMDB.