Patrick Stewart singing Ghost Riders in the Sky is quite, quite scary
(all in aid of International Rescue)
Rocking Up To The Tower
Blackpool Tower
The most famous landmark of Blackpool
Having been to Manchester we headed further into the north-west, to the seaside resort of Blackpool. It’s a simple train journey from one to the other (though not in the greatest of trains) and saved dealing with the increased prices of Manchester accommodation. Of course, having had sun for most of the time in the notoriously wet larger city, we arrived to rain.
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Etihad Roses
Corn Exchange
It’s long and impressive
Like so many northern cities, Manchester was a place Heather had never been before. A small gig by a little band seemed a good enough reason to correct that, so in we took a train north.
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Central Steam
Steam Railway
The noise and excitement of steam
This post is, like modern trains, somewhat late but it does involve the trains of yesteryear and so is worth it, for the saw Heather and I visiting a preserved railway we’d barely heard of before, at Epping Ongar.
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A heritage bus
The railway runs over what was the end of the Central Line in London, before it was cut back to finish at Epping Station. From the original terminus of Ongar the preserved railway runs through North Weald and out into the Epping Forest, to stop (at a picturesque but stationless point) just short of Epping and the tube. There’s an excellent shuttle service, provided by a fleet of vintage buses, between the still operational Epping tube station and North Weald station, the journey included in the price of admission (one day the railway hopes to run right up to Epping again and link in—it would certainly be a sight to see a big steam loco pulling into the little tube station!) They normally run a mixture of preserved steam and diesel but were having a steam gala weekend, complete with visiting locos, which seemed the ideal time to pay a visit.
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WAY To Rochester
Castle Keep
The great keep of the castle
Once upon a year, in something that has become a tradition for Heather and I (after our first date) there is a trip to Rochester. This year’s was , along with a couple of WAY friends.
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Shrewish Globe
Audience
At the Globe for Taming of the Shrew
A trip to the Globe is a sort of yearly occurance, so long as we remember to book tickets in time. This year it was to see The Taming of the Shrew (a play neither Heather or I had seen before). It was an interesting production, the setting transformed from sixteenth century Italy to the early twentieth century of the Irish Uprising.
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The play is known to be problematic, mainly due to the “taming” itself, and, in this production at least, felt disjointed between the fiery Katherine of the first acts and the almost suddenly defeated woman in Petruchio’s home later. I think it would be interesting to see a production that more took the route of farce that the induction possibly suggests.
It was still all enjoyable, even if a bit uncomforable by modern sensibilities. Next up, Two Gentlement of Verona in Chester.
The Bank Holiday’s Tale : Gallery
A bank holiday Monday trip to Canterbury (I’d never been there before and so added a castle to my list 🙂 ) with Heather, her mum, Doug and Esther, plus little Evie! We arrived by train into Cantebury West and headed towards town, being almost immediately confronted with the impressive Continue reading …
Antineutrino Daleks
Should we be worried that antineutrino detectors look like something from the interior of a Dalek starship? Actually some interesting hints of results coming out of that detector.
WAY Big Picnic 2016 : Gallery
