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Went for a gentle windswept walk on Sunday - the sunshine was lovely!
A bit hard to see, but left to right you have the modern port with giant container ships, leading round to WW2 fortifications and the Napoleonic fort, a little journey through nearly 3 centuries. There was a fort there earlier than 1744 but there's nothing left to see of that in the photo.

Here's a mini pic spam of the point.
Not a church, just more WW2 fortifications with a decorative seagull.

Loved this weathered wood

The point part of Landguard Point

A sandy bit

My end of walk reward - yummy

I've been semi-busy with Compass Rosie, in between semi-packing for Italy, watching Avengers: Endgame and doing fannish stuff for various challenges. The good news is, she's practically finished! Which is just as well as she's due to be collected on Thursday, by Nigel the Man With a Van.

So here she is - three sides of her at any rate, since I realised I forgot to take an up-to-date photo of the mermaid side with the moon and compass rose finished. I'll have to snap that side tomorrow.

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We popped down to the waterfront this evening to catch a performance of some 'art' - this one's called Clarion Call and it's supposed to evoke the waiting women of WW1. THere are arrays of speakers placed on rooftops all around the marina, then a helicopter flies over and supposedly boosts the singing that is being broadcast via the speakers. It's being performed twice a day for a week or so, and it's kind of interesting, I suppose. My hubby really likes it, and has been down to listen a couple of times now - I'm not that struck by it but it was worth going the once.

There's a video of some of the singing, if anyone's interested. The nicest bits are around 4-5 minutes in.

I actually think it would be better without the helicopter noise, but then we were also being treated to a daft bloke on his balcony who was blowing a shofar when we arrived and then got out a megaphone and shouted throughout the performance. Because apparently this was all a conspiracy of evil God-haters, and the singers were sun-worshiping witches. Yeah of course they were, because they were women. Blimey, some people are really nutty.

Here's the religious dingbat with his shofar.( Small picspam )

I'm in Berlin! It was very, very hot, but now it's rained and it's only normally hot. Well, you have to understand that I'm talking as a Brit who's used to summers where 25ºC was always considered a heatwave (before the global warming that doesn't exist), so you have to understand that recent temperatures home and abroad have been quite traumatic.

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Hi darlings, I'm back from Lovely Lisbon and found that this had been posted on Twitter while I was away. So I've uploaded it to Youtube. I'm sure there'll be multiple copies on there but I couldn't find one.

Back to the holiday weekend! It was hotter in England than Portugal, which is just nutty, but it was still blooming hot enough for me. Our apartment looked really run down from the outside, and was opposite one of those tiny shops that sell everything, and had some very dodgy blokes hanging round outside from 11am till midnight - but the inside was really nice and airy. Not that we spent much time there, what with birthday celebrations and sightseeing, and of course, eating.

Here's a small picspam to whet your appetites for a visit one day -

quickreaver I'm looking at you! I'm certainly planning to return, as three days wasn't anywhere near enough time to see everything.
One of Paul's photos of me in the castle - nice to see the warning after we'd walked all round the scary high walls with no guard rails... LOL( Read more... )

I feel I should report back on Creation and JIB and my Jared painting, before all the details slip out of my leaky brain.

( warning for picspamming and unwarranted whining amid the funstuff )

Painted him lying down yesterday, then today with Paul's help and the promise of reasonable weather, we got him outside the garage and upright. Man, that was NOT easy to do. He's heavy and of course not exactly balanced... However we managed it without damaging him, though lying him down again we had to open Anne and David's back gate to accommodate his head and neck, something I hadn't considered when we got him out in the first place! LOL

Here are a few still photos and hopefully a timelapse gif (if LJ will let me load it today - yesterday it kept wiping the code).
OK LJ still won't load the gif so here's a link instead.
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It's been a while.

Sketchbooking is continuing to be interesting. I also did a one day workshop with the same tutor on mixed media.

Tonight we did minimising the palette and had a choice between full monochrome and a limited palette. I'd meant to have a go at both but ran out of time.
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Dizz just reminded me I took some photos in the snow because I thought those of you who regularly suffer proper winters with 6ft drifts might find this amusing. Plus, town did look pretty!

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Firstly - Happy Birthday

borgmama1of5, hope you have a lovely day! Here's some Demon!Dean for you.( Read more... )

Paul loves zoos, I'm not so keen - seeing some of the animals in such small spaces (even when the zoo is clearly doing a great job looking after them) makes me feel melancholy. However. They are beautiful creatures and so I took some photos.

Zoo pic spam!
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I've been chugging away at submitting designs for various sculpture trails all over the country, and now the intital selection results are starting to come in. I've got one penguin design on the Dundee shortlist, and all THREE of my giraffes have been shortlisted for Worcester. Okay, this doesn't mean I'll definitely get any of them commissioned but I might...so when do I start panicking? LOL!!!!

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We were up at 6am to get layered up for our stint volunteering at the Christmas Dip. This time Paul was on setting up and collection duties while I was on the desk for on-the-day registrations. Which turned out to be lucky, as we were in the land-side of the promenade shelter where the desks were set up and the wind direction meant we were pretty sheltered! While the poor folks on the sea-ward side were right in the path of the cold. Still froze my knees off though LOL. Sadly, being on the wrong side plus having several people turn up to take part at literally the last minute, meant we didn't see anything of the whole rushing into the North Sea thing.

However, Paul was on the prom and took a few blurry pics. I think you can still see the man on the right riding a polar bear...

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I had the photos taken for this FB meme but forgot to finish posting them, so I've done a catch up on Facebook today, and thought I'd follow in

jj1564 and

dizzojay's footsteps and post here too. Sorry about the multi-postings lately! One more to come today - my first spn_rb post! Yay!

7 days of 7 black and white photos of your life. No humans. No explanation

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Okay, LFCC is no San Diego, but it's big enough for me. This year our little band of hunters didn't have any GISHWHES tasks to do, so we could wander round and do our own thing, which actually meant at times we were like ships that pass in the night. I even persuaded Paul to come, and he enjoyed his mini-geek fest, going to a few of the free panels and ogling the Wonder Women and Cat Women. He has a bit of a thing for slinky women in black lycra LOL.

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I may have had entirely too much fun with this dress up Castiel game by brightfallenstars....Click on the image to go to Deviant art and play!( Read more... )

The view from our breakfast room in Lincoln...( Read more... )

We arrived in Lincoln mid afternoon and laboured our roundabout way up to the old Bishops Palace to find our rather marvellous accommodations...
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Yesterday we went to Stonham Barns for a mini history festival with several re-enactment groups. We could only stay half of the day as Paul had to get back to Dad-sit so his brother could have a bit of a break from the appalling miserable git, but we still managed to fit in four displays and walked round the whole encampment.

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Photo Op tales from JIBcon 2017

NB there are a couple here I already posted but I wanted these all together so just scroll on by any repeats...

I had too many photo ops this year. I’d gone a bit nuts buying them, because I knew it was my only chance to see our boys this year, and I was desperate to make the most of it. So I’d managed to snaffle one single with Brianna, two singles with Jensen, two with Jared, two J2s, the trio (J2 & Misha), a Jared and Misha double and apparently, two Jensen and Misha doubles. I was mystified by that last one for a while, until I remembered that for JIB7 I missed out on the Jensen Misha. So all I can think is that when I got my prophet pass and they offered me the chance to buy sold out photo ops, I had it in my head that I’d failed to get the Jensen Misha, so bought another. Yeah, yeah, I know – clearly I have more money than sense.

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Entries tagged with picspam

Weekend sunshine

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Clarion Call

Yakkity yak

Lisbon and other things

Convention recap

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Sketchbook and Hare progress

Snowmageddon is nearly over - apparently

Birthdays and travel pics

Zooland

Gulp...

Ah, Christmas....

7 Days in Black & White

London Film & Comic Con

Random guff

When you need to take a camera to breakfast....

Travels with my Mum

History festival pic spam

JIB8 Photo Op report - nearly in full!