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 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:32 am
xXx White Lily xXx ice_illusion Edit: Placebo are on the T-in-the-park bill. On Saturday. Yay. You have to tell me whether they're worth going to or not. Thanks. I'll try and check them out.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:35 am
ice_illusion Thanks. I'll try and check them out.
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Shadow of an Illusion Crew
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:44 pm
xXx White Lily xXx ice_illusion Thanks. I'll try and check them out. I'll make sure and tell you specially. Nah. But I hope they do. Nancy Boy is one of my favourites.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:47 pm
ice_illusion I'm scared you'll be disapointed now. xp Oh and Ask Jeeves is much better than Google. Although thats not really important.
Unless it rains, maybe. It looks better with a sunny summer.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:34 am
ice_illusion I'll make sure and tell you specially. Nah. But I hope they do. Nancy Boy is one of my favourites.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:26 pm
Invictus_88 ice_illusion I'm scared you'll be disapointed now. xp Oh and Ask Jeeves is much better than Google. Although thats not really important.
Unless it rains, maybe. It looks better with a sunny summer.Good luck with the sun. Last year it was sunny for about 4 days. Whenever it gets above a certain temperature where I live the har comes in and its all foggy. But the rest of Scotland seems to get the sun a bit more. *jealous*
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:11 pm
ice_illusion Invictus_88 ice_illusion I'm scared you'll be disapointed now. xp Oh and Ask Jeeves is much better than Google. Although thats not really important.
Unless it rains, maybe. It looks better with a sunny summer.Good luck with the sun. Last year it was sunny for about 4 days. Whenever it gets above a certain temperature where I live the har comes in and its all foggy. But the rest of Scotland seems to get the sun a bit more. *jealous*
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:43 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/longview/longview.shtmlQuote: A Symbol of Britishness 28/3/2006What is Britishness? What are the ingredients that bind the inhabitants of these islands together? It's a question that's taken on a new political urgency recently with Gordon Brown speaking out about a need to find new symbols for our national identity, while the London bombings last year cast a shadow over the comfortable belief in a contentedly multi-cultural Britain. Jonathan Freedland discovers that agonising over Britishness is as old as Britain itself, and trying to pin down a symbol for it can be a tricky business.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:34 am
Maybe that's a symbol of Britishness? Being so diverse that there is no symbol...
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:10 pm
xXx White Lily xXx Maybe that's a symbol of Britishness? Being so diverse that there is no symbol...
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:18 pm
I believe that the best sign of a multi-cultural society is curry flavoured scotch eggs.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:16 am
Suggestions of places to visit:
Bristol - where I currently live, therefore top of my head. I understand you've lived here already though, so I presume you've seen the Suspension Bridge, Cabot Tower, SS Great Britain and Ashton Court Estate? It might be nice if you were about during the Balloon Festival though, if you've not seen that before. I've been here 2 and a half years and still haven't...
Glastonbury - last time I went, I went for the Abbey, although there's not a lot of it left. My friend refused to climb the Tor though, so that's something I've yet to do. I imagine the view would be amazing. Not sure how full of hippies the place is likely to be in high summer, mind you.
Whitby, North Yorkshire - lovely little fishing town, picturesque houses, many fudge shops and a huge Gothic Abbey in ruins on the cliff which is well worth a visit.
Roseberry Topping - a hill in Teesside that is shaped a little like an Angel Delight or meringue. A lovely climb to the top allows you to see the countryside all about (and no, it's not just ICI Wilton! smile )
Pickering / Goathland - where the North Yorkshire Moors Steam Railway continues to run. Once upon a time you could buy a return ticket to Goathland (setting for Heartbeat and Hogsmeade Station) for very little. Now, with the publicity from the Harry Potter series, fares are quite steep. To think we once hired an entire *train* for my grandfather's 80th birthday... Both are towns set in the North Yorks Moors and well worth a look - lots of rolling moor to have a picnic on and some streams nearby where you can frolic.
Alnwick - up in Northumberland sits a castle which should look very familiar to you. This would be because it was the exterior setting for Blackadder and doubled as the exterior of Hogwarts. My family visited one day, but managed to choose the one day of the week it was shut! Still, it is set in very pleasant grounds and the town itself is probably worthy of closer inspection. Not too far away are also Bamborough (sp) Castle and Lindisfarne, the Holy Island. It's probably not essential to sing "Fog on the Tyne" or "Lady Eleanor" there, though wink
Lancaster - cobbled shopping streets, a fountain in the central square which, at that time of year, will no doubt be filled with soap suds by the happy students of the University (my own alma mater). I believe there is a cathedral somewhere in the city, but there's certainly a butterfly house near the Ashton Memorial.
Keswick - a nice Cumbrian town. Attracted my interest because of the "Cars of the Stars" museum, which is home to the Batmobile, a few James Bond cars and KITT. Alas, he wasn't talking when I visited.
Hay-on-Wye - Hereford / Wales border town. If you're a bibliophile, you *need* to visit this town. It has more bookshops per square mile than anywhere else in the UK. These cater mostly in secondhand books, but there are a few new bookshops as well. They are particularly good for children's books, but there are also specialist cinema bookshops, gardening bookshops...
And now I feel I have waffled enough. I step back to allow others some room.
DW
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:08 am
Warnersister Glastonbury - last time I went, I went for the Abbey, although there's not a lot of it left. My friend refused to climb the Tor though, so that's something I've yet to do. I imagine the view would be amazing. Not sure how full of hippies the place is likely to be in high summer, mind you.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:21 pm
I've not been back to Bristol for ages. We have a few tenents there but we've not had to go tere for yonks, I'd not given the place much thought really but you've sparked a lot of quite happy memories. I remember the Balloon Fiest only very vaguely, I must have been about six at the time.
It seems the the balloon thing is 10th-13th August, in which case it'll be very late in my journey. Indeed, it will probably form the final step on the return trip. I'll try to go though, certainly. It'll be great.
Also; it's a bit of a long shot, but when I lived in Bristol I went to a park. In or near Bristol, I think. There wa a deepish gully and a stream and lost of trees. There was an accompanying story about two giants in competition. It's very vague, I know. I just wonered if it meant anything to anyone.
Glastonbury Tor is on the list, as is Yes Tor on Dartmoor.
Whitby abbey sounds good. And I've just googled it now. Wow. I don't intend this to be a sightseeing tour, and I want to see ugly places, but that is rather too beautiful to miss.
Roseberry Topping is a useful point. We've almost nothing down yet for Yorkshire/Lancaster/Derbyshire.
Alnwick. Ace. Blackadder references carry unnatural weight. And as we already have Lindisfarne on the list, a triad of Bamborough, Lindisfarne and Alnwick should work nicely.
Being a sountherner to the core, I know nothing of Lancaster. Except something about a war of roses, maybe. Having googled, I'm realising how much ignorance this yourney will dispel. I imagined every town north of Worcestershire to be ugly and concrete or victorian-terraced and choked in the smoke of "dark Satanic mills". I need this journey, I really do.
Kate says no to the car museum, I'll have to sumbit really. She agreed not to drag me off to some of her literary locations..
Hay-on-Wye is listed (I really should find time to actually put this list on the first post) but not heavily. Kate and I are both going to uni in Wales, she we'll be spending a lot of time there. Hay Festival too, we're both bibliophiles. Though in very different genres.
Top waffle! Much appreciated!
3nodding
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:04 pm
Invictus_88 I imagined every town north of Worcestershire to be ugly and concrete or victorian-terraced and choked in the smoke of "dark Satanic mills". I need this journey, I really do.
Kate says no to the car museum, I'll have to sumbit really. She agreed not to drag me off to some of her literary locations..
How about a boat museum? There's one not far from here...
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