Comments | lebannen: My new view

lebannen

My new view

Jan 22, 2006 18:54

So, let's see if I can write some tags without cutting and pasting anything (it really helps not to write "lj-cute", for starters)...

( There should be a couple of pictures in here )

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Comments 10

liars_dance January 22 2006, 18:59:26 UTC

Sorry hon - you got an error in those tags somewhere!

lebannen January 22 2006, 19:09:41 UTC

fixtede!

liars_dance January 23 2006, 16:38:26 UTC

That must be quite a different view!! Funny how the water softens it - makes it look less awful than it is. It has the look of the chemical works of Mestre on the mainland that form the backdrop to Venice... The pink sky is wonderful though!

lebannen January 23 2006, 21:27:59 UTC

Very different, indeed! About the only similarity is that both views are tidal; I don't like living out of sight of the sea, and this is great. When I get to having actual work to do it might not be so good (although by then I might have moved rooms to somewhere with a view of nothing but trees and houses), because the 'ooh look, a ferry! a car carrier! what's that?' factor might be a bit too distracting.

And yes, it might be toxic as all hell (equally, it might not be, I don't know) but the sunsets so far do seem to have been better than average!

sigmonster January 22 2006, 20:09:36 UTC

For some reason I'm reminded of the methane flare at Brogborough toxic waste dump. Possibly because I've passed it at night a few times. Much less pretty.

(It's on the other side of the A421 from the most northerly landfill site for London waste, should you ever wish to inspect it for yourself. Brogborough itself is... somewhat traumatised by these two sites, the M1, and the train lines.)

lebannen January 23 2006, 08:44:01 UTC

There is or waas one at United Downs in Cornwall, too. The flare here's not currently anything like as big as I've seen from Grangemouth sometimes, but the fact that it's considerably closer makes up for that!

berreh January 23 2006, 01:58:12 UTC

The flame coming out of the top is a little bit O.o. The skyline is still pretty, but whoa that's a lot of chimneys.

lebannen January 23 2006, 08:40:57 UTC

yis. There's a panorama as well, that I haven't resized properly yet, which shows that the refinery doesn't cover the whole horizon - there's a power station as well, just to add variety. There aren't any flames this morning, just a few lights lower down and a great big red oil tanker.

anonymous June 8 2008, 18:26:51 UTC

lebannen June 9 2008, 07:05:22 UTC

Heya,

you did indeed get my name right, but I'll just screen your comment once I've replied because like it says in the first post of the journal, I prefer to keep my Mysterious Online Alter-Ego as just that, without getting the other one involved, and I think sheldrake has similar policy too.

I'm very glad you like the books, and there will be more listed at some point, but unfortunately - *g* - I don't think there's any Jilly Cooper. I'll tell you though, I was checking through the list of the ones I was giving away to make sure my mum didn't want to keep any of them, and afterwards she was a bit 'oh my god, who on earth wants all those, so much seriousness in one place!' I just think you're welcome to them, partly because I don't have enough shelfspace for the ones I really want, let alone the ones I'm considering maybe reading one day; I'm very happy they've found a home instead of having to stay in a cardboard box!

galactic_jack June 13 2008, 10:25:27 UTC

Yeah, no problem about screening. Sorry about that. Completely understand the division of life and LJ!

I've already started my way through them: Hesse's The Prodigy first, then the faulkner, and so on. Great stuff. I can't thank you enough.

I'll keep my eyes peeled (or sheldrake will) if you need to get rid of anymore - they're always in appreciative hands with me. Esp. those Jilly Coopers!!

Thanks again, you're a star. x