Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Longish post ahead, with lotsa piccies, so it may take a while to load.
Hey folks. I got piccies for ya! I got some piccies from Lake District AND I also got some piccies from when I went a wandering through London on my day off yesterday.

Firstly though, I would like to say that my Fan Manga is up and available for viewing. To see it, click on my Portfolio (link to the left) and click on fan manga. It’s the only piece I have up at the moment. Its titled “Gundam Scroll”. I hope you enjoy. Give feedback people! ^^

Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (a.k.a Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday”) which marks the beginning of Lent. I’ve decided to give up answering telephones for Lent. It will make my life so much more peaceful and less stressful. What are YOU giving up for Lent? Of course, it being Shrove Tuesday, it meant it was Pancake Day!! w00t!! Pancakes!!! Yum!! (british pancakes, ahthankyou, not those crazy American breakfast things)

T’otherwise, nothing much is going on. ^^

PICCIE TIME! If ya don’t have time for piccies, then skip to the end where I have a collection of One Liners from last years Edinburgh Festival.



H’okay, so this is how this is gonna work. Basically I didn’t masses of pictures from the Lake District, and the ones I do have pretty much all look pretty similar, that is to say, lotsa hills, lotsa lakes. So what I'm gonna do is post the link to my photobucket site below and if ya wanna look through all of them, you are more then welcome to. What I will do, however, is post some of my favourite pictures and put some explanation to them.
Normal easter eggs apply…hover cursor over picture for Alt Text.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v247/darkeangel/Lake%20District/?start=all


We only spent a week in the Lake District and there isn’t a whole lot to do up there, but on one day we went to this Illusions place, kinda like Ripley’s Believe it or Not, but with mostly optical illusions. There was this great illusion where…well look for yaselves:



My lil bro defies gravity!! As do i!



And my mother too!



One of the other days we went to Dove Cottage where the poet William Wordsworth lived.



Woopdedoo! I hear you yell. Yeah, I thought so too. But I do like his poetry, especially the famous poem “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (a.k.a Daffodil)


“I Wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

Theres more to it, but that’s the famous bit.

The local town to where we were staying was called Keswick, which was small and kinda charming really. There was a huge bakery there where we had tea and scones a couple of times (yum) and TONNES of shops selling Outdoor Gear stuff like walking boots and trekking poles and rucksacks and tents and stuff like that.
Anyhoo, there was this great lil cinema there.



The place we were staying in was this great lil cottage.



And we next to a huge lake called Derwent Water, which we sorta half walked around one day.





And the cottage was halfway up a range of small peaks called CatsBells


We actually climbed Catsbells one day, and saw some great sights, but I’ll leave you to have a look for them in my photobucket account. I’ll give ya a small teaser…



Here’s a couple more pics of some sights I really liked.



Mist sitting in the Valley. I thought it was cool.

To get to the cottage there was this narrow trackway that ran around the lake and part the way up CatsBells. And everyday we drove down there we passed this house, which I was obsessed with.



I don’t know why, but I love this house, secluded by the lake, with its own little boat house as well! The whole thing reminds me of Old Home from Haibane Renmei for some reason. That’s probably why I like it so much.



And yeah. So that was pretty much all of what we did in the Lake District…walked high and far and went places if we could find them. We also went to a Cars of the Stars Museum, which was kinda pokey and disappointing…the cars were really cool and genuine but we weren’t allowed to take photos! And we also went to the Pencil Museum.


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*tumbleweed*

Yah, I'm not kidding. It was hella boring, but I did take the opportunity to stock up on art supplies. ^^ and we also went to this Beatrix Potter thing which was kinda cool. ^^ oh and on the last day we went to this place called “The Chocolate House” which was a combined Chocolate shop and restaurant. They had TONNES of different chocolate drinks and cakes to choose from. ^^ I really enjoyed it there (but again, SO SMALL! I AM A TALL PERSON! WHY DID THEY NOT BUILD HOUSES FOR 6’ 2’’ PEOPLE BACK IN THE 17TH CENTURY???!!!!)

I also did my incredibly lame and poorly drawn Holiday Comics whilst I was away and I’ll probably post a link to them once I scan and edit em a bit. So if ya really wanna know what I got up to whilst I was away, you should read em (if you can make out the words).

Anyhoo, that’s the photos from the Lake District from last week.


AND NOW!

More photos.

Yesterday I had the day off work, and I couldn’t be bothered to sit around the house and do nothing so I decided to go up to London and do some sight seeing. I have a bit of an interest in architecture and building design, especially in cities like London. So I wandered up and when I saw something I liked, I took a picture of it.



I had to include this. ^^ Weston Street…named after my family of course….



This used to be one of the hundreds of docks in Londons South Bank between buildings, but has been regenerated into this rather funky atrium.



Ladies and Gentlemen: Her Majesties Ship Belfast.



The Globe Theatre, Shakespeare’s performance area of choice. This is the new one, the original was demolished or burnt down or something…



This is the Tate Modern, a HUGE art gallery on the South Bank. The Turbine Hall, which is the centre space, is over 6 storeys tall.



Inside the Turbine Hall was this Installation of a bunch of slides. The point of the whole thing is to be able to watch people go down the slides, and to have a go yourself, and the experiences you have whilst doing this is the “Art” rather then the slides themselves. I didn’t have a go, but only cuz I had a rucksack with me and I was wearing my full length leather coat. I also wandered around the rest of the Tate Modern, which has lots of “Modern Art” in it, but I wasn’t allowed to take pictures in the galleries. It was free admission though, which was pretty good. ^^



The Millenium Bridge and beyond it, St Paul’s Cathedral.



On the Millenium Bridge looking eastwards towards Tower Bridge



Charing Cross station and looking west down the river



Centre Point tower, where my Dad USED to work, but he’s got a new job which he started yesterday where he’s based in Leicester Square, which is sort of a shame, cuz I liked Centre Point. Also, Forbidden Comics and Orbital Comics are just below Centre Point. I had a long way to walk to get to my comics yesterday!



St Pauls Cathedral, which is HUGE!



This is the entrance to St Pauls. I was gonna go in, but it cost like TEN QUID (10 GB Pounds = approx 18 US Dollars) to get in, so i decided against it. (what I actually said was “holy shit that’s expensive…oh wait, I just blasphemed in the House of God…sorry!”)



Some rather nice houses and gardens in the middle of London.

These last few pics are of a certain building that I always see from the train whenever I go up to London, and I’ve always wanted to go and see it.





This is actually right next door to the Tate Modern, and just off the river. So ergo, its hella expensive apartments.



I want to live here someday. In the yellow bit.



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And that’s it from me today. Sorry it’s a bit long winded and there are tonnes of pictures to go through. If you actually sat there and read ALL of that, AND looked at all the pictures AND looked at the alt text AND checked out my manga, consider yourself Darke’s INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH bestest best friend of the day. ^^ if not, consider yourself a regular Darke’s best friend. And y’all can have a cookie and skittle of your choice.



Well, I shall see y’all later. Hopefully I’ll update at the weekend, but I got to work Saturday afternoon/evening and Sunday morning, so I probably wont have time to write up a post. ^^;



See y’all!


ONE LINERS FROM THE EDINGBURGH FESTIVAL:



“Cats have nine lives. Which makes them ideal for experimentation.”
Jimmy Carr

“The right to bear arms is slightly less ludicrous than the right to arm bears.”
Chris Addison

“The dodo died. Then Dodi died, Di died and Dando died. Dido must be sh*tting herself.”
Colin & Fergus

“My parents are from Glasgow which means they're incredibly hard, but I was never smacked as a child... well maybe one or two grams to get me to sleep at night.”
Susan Murray

“Is it fair to say that there'd be less litter in Britain if blind people were given pointed sticks?”
Adam Bloom

“You have to remember all the trivia that your girlfriend tells you, because eventually you get tested. She'll go: "What's my favourite flower?" And you murmur to yourself: "Sh*t, I wasn't listening... Self-raising?"
Addy Van-Der-Borgh

“The world is a dangerous place; only yesterday I went into Boots Chemist and punched someone in the face.”
Jeremy Limb

“I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was "Shout For Help".”
Mark Watson, Rhod Gilbert

“I went out with an Irish Catholic. Very frustrating. You can take the Girl out of Cork...”
Markus Birdman

“Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner
and a loser at the same time.”
Demetri Martin

“A dog goes into a hardware store and says: "I'd like a job please". The hardware store owner says: "We don't hire dogs, why don't you go join the circus?" The dog replies: "What would the circus want with a plumber?"”
Steven Alan Green


“I like to go into the Body Shop and shout out really loud "I've already got one!"
Norman Lovett

“It's easy to distract fat people. It's a piece of cake.”
Chris Addison




Toodles.

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