I saw a blazing comet, drop down hail...
...I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,
I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,
I saw a Pismire, swallow up a Whale,
I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,
I saw a Venice Glass, full fifteen fathoms deep,
I saw a well, full of men's tears that weep,
I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,
I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,
I saw the Sun, at twelve o'clock at night,
I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.
I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,
I saw a Pismire, swallow up a Whale,
I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,
I saw a Venice Glass, full fifteen fathoms deep,
I saw a well, full of men's tears that weep,
I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,
I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,
I saw the Sun, at twelve o'clock at night,
I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.
This poem was in a book on a shelf, on the stairs of my parents house. I think it's the reason I like poetry.
The people looking is very Spielbergian :o)
The people looking is very Spielbergian :o)
...Gladly beyond...
May
Walking and Cup Final...
I've (we've - me and Campbell) been doing quite a bit of walking, it's great... it means I can eat more cakes or lose some weight. Cheshire (the place I live) is quite rural so there are a lot of nice countryside type walks. These photographs are from the Sandstone Trail.
Photographs from the day we watched the FA Cup Final in my aunty'ss house - it was Everton v Chelsea, we (Everton) lost but it wasn't the end of the world, not for me anyway but my dad looked pretty fed up about it...a few beers and burgers later though and he was fine.
June
We walked up Moel Famau, it's a mountain in Wales (close to where I live). It was foggy and quiet and still... and just lovely, perfect weather for walking in. I think if I could spend time doing that walk in that weather each month I would have no stress in my life at all...it was perfectly silent and wonderful.
Campbell and his cloak. Okey, so it wasn't really a cloack but a waterproof poncho but when he walked off into the mist I expected to hear wolves howling (as he paced across the Moors and into the mouth of the beast :o)
April
Happy Birthday to me...
I spent my birthday with my family having a picnic in Delamere
Left to Right: Me being 29 and a little bit cold, Kris & Jesper playing on Trees, Jesper posing (he posed for about 20 shots! Model baby :o), Nikki hiding behind a chair, Linda comforting Jesper after he fell over the obvious log.
Late April
Linda took me to Scheveningen for my Birthday and for the help I offered when she gave birth (I'm fairly sure I just stood there and panicked, ocasionnally offering her a wet towel and trying not to look terrified when I noticed "the head") - she's a great friend, it must have cost her a bomb - I really must thank her one day.
Ah Great Times
Late April
Linda took me to Scheveningen for my Birthday and for the help I offered when she gave birth (I'm fairly sure I just stood there and panicked, ocasionnally offering her a wet towel and trying not to look terrified when I noticed "the head") - she's a great friend, it must have cost her a bomb - I really must thank her one day.
Ah Great Times
Left to Right Top: Kerry with Scarf on head to protect from heat of the sun (I burnt my nose), Bikes = Dutch, Kerry & Linda at Crazy Pianos, A face sculpture (excellent - like something from Planet of the Apes), More tiny sculptures, Linda & large sculpture, Linda in wine bar on beach, Linda & the light house, A nun reading (fantastic), Tulips from HamsterJam
I love The Hague, it's such a clean and relaxing place, the pace of life is about 30 miles an hour behind the pace of that in England. I love it there, I didn't want to come home. I'll go there again sometime :o)
I love The Hague, it's such a clean and relaxing place, the pace of life is about 30 miles an hour behind the pace of that in England. I love it there, I didn't want to come home. I'll go there again sometime :o)
To Be Continued...
The Book Shop at Lady Heyes in Frodsham, which is about 5 or 10 miles from where I live (I'm not actually sure how far it is at all, 10 minutes in the car or 4 hours on a bus, you can see why I can't decide). Lady Heyes is a strange place but there are interesting and odd shops where I can buy craft stuff and where there is the most amazing bookshop! It even has doors that are like secret passages, you don't know they're doors (as they're covered in shelving) until they're open. It's a great place to spend an afternoon.
"A
book is a human-powered film projector that
advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a
corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
act of turning a page."
The Reactive Square - John Maeda
advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a
corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
act of turning a page."
The Reactive Square - John Maeda
... Playing Broken Picture Telephone which is a game like pictionary and what the American's call telephone (but which we here in Britain call Chinese Whispers - not quite sure why we call it that - it seems odd).
I've also been taking some photographs and messing with them in photoshop.
This is a photograph of a street just off Wood Street in Liverpool.
I had just been to see Vicki Christina Barcelona at FACT (which is a great cinema with the most comfortable reclining seats. It's such a relaxing place, even just to sit and have a coffee) and when I came out there were these nice long shadows so I took quite a few photographs and then I stretched them some more when I got home. I preferred the stretched ones to the originals so I posted these :o)
"These long shadows crawl along
Pushed by sun rays still strong
Smoothing things flat to earth
Rolling thin and losing worth "
I had just been to see Vicki Christina Barcelona at FACT (which is a great cinema with the most comfortable reclining seats. It's such a relaxing place, even just to sit and have a coffee) and when I came out there were these nice long shadows so I took quite a few photographs and then I stretched them some more when I got home. I preferred the stretched ones to the originals so I posted these :o)
"These long shadows crawl along
Pushed by sun rays still strong
Smoothing things flat to earth
Rolling thin and losing worth "
"Hypnotized by the silence & beauty"
(this can be said of Jämtland)
(this can be said of Jämtland)
I visited Sweden with my family again, this time there was snow... more snow than I have ever seen!
Now that I am home, I miss all the snow and the bright white of it but I have lots and lots of photographs to remind myself of how beautiful it is.
We travelled to Ostersund by Plane, Bus, Train and Car. It took us quite a long time but it was fun on the way up because we had 20 questions to keep us occupied, and it was fun on the way down (home :o) because we were on a sleeper train - it was like being in an Agatha Christie book - so exciting!
Below are the photographs in chronoligcal order (I think)...
Below are the photographs in chronoligcal order (I think)...
My aeroplane essentials; Phone (actually my phonecase but that was because I was taking photographs with my phone), Pen, Travel Journal, Headphones, and a Beer.
The flight was smooth and uneventful, just how I like it.
The flight was smooth and uneventful, just how I like it.
20 questions in the house.
We played 20 questions on the train too but my photographs were a little fuzzy and we didn't wear the attractive red ribbon on our head for fear of looking silly, even though we made enough noise to disrupt the whole train!
The idea of the game is to put a card behind the ribbon and then guess who you are by asking questions; it's a lot of silly fun and really quite difficult.
The idea of the game is to put a card behind the ribbon and then guess who you are by asking questions; it's a lot of silly fun and really quite difficult.
Snow Fun
We had a lot of fun in the snow, more fun that should be allowed without any kind of stimulant :o)
My dad, who is 62, even had a go on the snow board type thing that was a favourite of ours (it had a string so we didn't fall over so much).
We took a walk down to the lake at sunset to have a ride on the Skidoo, unfortunately, the snow on the lake was too deep so we spent some time digging it out so Göran could take it back up to the house. We did get time to watch the sunset though and that was beautiful.
Being on the lake is scary for us English people because we still can't grasp the depth of the ice - which, I think, was 3 metres thick!
Walking to and from the lake was the MOST exercise I have had this year, I think there was two weeks worth of exercise in that walk, it was such hard work but definitely worth it.
Being silly with my dad's hat; a man at work let him use it because it was so cold in Sweden, we laughed at the hat until we realised just how cold it was.
From Left to Right: Linda in the Igloo on the lake, Nik & Ross snoozing in the snow, Linda demonstrating the depth of the snow, a view of the lane we walked each day, a view of the lake with snow in close up, an imprint of Nik's hands, bum and feet (hehehe), and a tulip.
Three More photographs...
A tribute to a photograph from TFC. Trying to capture breath on camera is such hard work... there are about 10 other photographs accompanying this one.
Should I get to go back to Sweden, I will drop everything and jump at the chance. The whole way of life is different to England, so much more relaxed, so much easier. It's clean and quiet and beautiful.
Being on the lake is scary for us English people because we still can't grasp the depth of the ice - which, I think, was 3 metres thick!
Walking to and from the lake was the MOST exercise I have had this year, I think there was two weeks worth of exercise in that walk, it was such hard work but definitely worth it.
Obligatory Jesper photograph - he always lets me take photographs of him so I have more of J than anyone else.
Just random photographs that I liked but for which I had no place.From Left to Right: Linda in the Igloo on the lake, Nik & Ross snoozing in the snow, Linda demonstrating the depth of the snow, a view of the lane we walked each day, a view of the lake with snow in close up, an imprint of Nik's hands, bum and feet (hehehe), and a tulip.
Three More photographs...
The corridor on the sleeper train.
This photograph is a match to one I took in May '08. I loved the May '08 photograph, it showed Nik & Ross in exactly the way I see them, and I think the photograph above emulates the other - they are "tann'd in the faces by shining suns and blowing winds" :o)The corridor was to the right of the cabins. Inside the cabins was 6 bunks, I had the top bunk. It was very exciting walking up and down the train, from carriage to carriage, having to go outside the train and encountering snow. Sleeping was hard work because of the noise and the train wobbling but I would definitely do it again.
We left östersund at 8.50pm and arrived in Stockholm at 3.30am but we were able to sleep on the train until 7am.
If anyone ever gets the chance to travel by train as opposed to a plane I definitely reccomend it. Hard work as it was, the experience was more than worth it.
Lastly...
Lastly...
Should I get to go back to Sweden, I will drop everything and jump at the chance. The whole way of life is different to England, so much more relaxed, so much easier. It's clean and quiet and beautiful.
Sombody showed me this and I was amazed I could read it so thought I'd pass it on in case anyone had not seen it...
"fi yuo cna
raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht
I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? "
Coolio - How clever are we?
...May all the splinters be facing in the right direction
Ok, it's not a bannister but it is a slide... slide easy, don't get stuck. If you have wide hips, go on your side... adjust.
Stuff like that.
I love slides :o)
Ok, it's not a bannister but it is a slide... slide easy, don't get stuck. If you have wide hips, go on your side... adjust.
Stuff like that.
I love slides :o)
This is sort of the day after the day after tomorrow so I mostly got around to it...I'm an eventually kind of person.
The Creepy fellows above are sitting on the gingerbread house we made on christmas eve after a few drinks. Here is Linda adding the finishing touches - below...
We were just glad it was still standing by this point (I don't know if you can notice but the top of the house and the chimney has small cars on it - jelly cars (it's all we had).
Some photos from Christmas day & New Year's Eve...
L to R: Me - apparently having a giant face but trying to demonstrate the 'smile' thingy on my camera - still, I quite like it, even with a giant face :o), next is another decoration on the gingerbread roof (by the end of the night my mum's decorations were covered in icing sugar, J & Kris trying out the 'smile' thing on my phone but coming out looking fairly happy. Lastly is Jesper in the garden on New Year's eve, wearing his cute little snow suit. He wouldn't stay still while I took the photograph - I don't think 15 month old kids ever stay still - but I like the effect all the same.
To finish...
This is a picture of some lights in an old fish tank in my auntie's garden, I thought it looked pretty.
and for fun:
How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's Junes.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
Dr Seuss
(Big Fan)
and for fun:
How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's Junes.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
Dr Seuss
(Big Fan)
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