22/2/12 - Whenever I visit Blackpool every February the Trams are closed for repairs, I don't think I have seen a running tram for years, do they actually ever work?
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Day 419 - I Wonder
I wonder, wonder how the stars, the silent stars
Open their casements on the sea to look
Without a rustle, without a noise, without
A break in heaven's silent face at night.
I wonder how the Night aloft his car
With trembling hands of fondness light
All everyone by one and one by one
The giddying stars all diademed at night:
Without a rustle, without a noise, without
A break in heaven's silent face at night.
I wonder how the Night alighting stars
Lifts gently each by each imperceptible
And breaks none in placing back again
Like diadems of east in their due niche:
Without a rustle, without a noise, without
A break in heaven's silent face at night.
Emmanuel George Cefai
Friday, 24 February 2012
Day 418 - Listen Very Carefully
20/2/12 - Another photo of the Comedy Carpet in Blackpool, this quote from one of my favourite comedy shows from the 80s.
Day 417 - The Tower
19/2/12 - The Blackpool Tower was recently closed for a multi million pound renovation, Its now open and the work continues to finish painting it and installing the lighting, I have to admit it is looking rather good both inside and on the outside.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Day 416 - Miniature town
18/2/12 - Another tilt shift effect from the top of the Blackpool tower, that square tower is the Police Station in Blackpool.
Day 415 - Blackpool Streets
17/2/12 - Another photo from my Tilt shift Camera from the top of the tower at Blackpool, I like this one, it really looks like a tiny town.
Day 414 - Winter Gardens Tilt
16/2/12 - I took my tilt shift camera up the tower in Blackpool, I think they are not too bad.
Day 413 - North Pier
15/2/12 - Another view from the top of the Blackpool tower, this time looking north towards the Lake District in the far distance. In the foreground is the 149 year old North Pier.
Day 412 - Comedy Carpet
14/2/12 - Right in front of the tower in Blackpool is the Comedy Carpet, this massive piece of art is hilarious, we spent ages walking around on it reading quotes from British comedy heroes of the past.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Day 411 - The Magic Gang
13/2/12 - Here I am with a great group of magical friends at the top of Blackpool tower, we all travel up to Blackpool together and stay in the same hotel, In the back row from left to right we have Scott, Rikki, Clint, Joe and Andie, then in the front is Nat and myself.
Day 410 - The Winter Gardens
12/2/12 - Here are the Winter Gardens in Blackpool as taken from the Blackpool Tower, it is a huge set of buildings and it has one of the largest theatres in the UK, it is also home to the Blackpool Magic Convention each year.
Day 409 - Dune Grass
11/2/12 - While walking on the Prom past near the tower we saw these new Grass like pod sculptures, they sway around in the wind and look really cool.
Day 408 - Blackpool
10/2/12 - It is that time of the year for my annual pilgrimage up to Blackpool for the worlds largest magic convention, 3500 magicians from all over the world all packed into the winter gardens. Here is the scene on our walk from the hotel to the Winter Gardens.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Day 407 - Lewes and the Ouse
9/2/12 - Here is the River Ouse as it flows thro the East Sussex town of Lewes, quite a cute little town with a nice hump of a bridge and a little castle.
Day 406 - Shoreham Airport
8/2/12 - On the way to a meeting I stopped off at Shoreham airport for a wander round, its quite well known for several reasons, its the oldest airport in the UK (opened in 1910), and the terminal building built in 1936 is a beautiful Art Deco masterpiece used in many films and TV programmes such as Agatha Christies 'Poirot' and Dan Browns 'The Da Vinci Code'.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Day 405 - Great Expectations
7/2/12 - I am lucky to live less that 3 miles from the Birthplace of Charles Dickens, I popped down there today exactly 200 years after his birth and was lucky enough to get inside, here is the room in which he was born.
Day 404 - A Tale of One City
6/2/12 - It was here, just behind those two upstairs windows that Elizabeth Culliford Dickens gave birth to a Charles John Huffam Dickens on 7th February 1812. He went on to become one of the greatest writers of all time.
Day 403 - Do You Have To Do That?
5/2/12 - While in the British Transport Museum I tried to take a nice photo of Nathan. hmmm, this will have to do I guess, lol.
Day 402 - London Transport Museum
4/2/12 - While in London we took a trip to the London Transport Museum, it turned out to be a really fun place to visit, lots to do, underground trains to drive, buses to climb aboard, horse drawn coaches to see, trust me, its a brilliant place to visit. - www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
Day 401 - Peek-A-Boo
3/2/12 - I saw these cheeky little chaps while standing at the cross roads of Seven Dials near Covent Garden in London, I thought they were watching me, he he.
Day 400 - Westminster Bridge
2/2/12 - During our few days in London we would walk back to our warm beds along the south bank and past Lambeth Palace, Here is Westminster Bridge taken from the less photographed side.
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Day 399 - Seven Dials
1/2/12 - Here is the Cambridge Theatre currently the home to Matilda, it is located in Seven Dials near Covent Garden in London, We sadly didnt get to see Matilda (yet), we got to see the Wizard of Oz instead . . . .hmmm that was . . . . . interesting.
Day 398 - Westminster Clock Tower
31/1/12 - Here are the Houses of Parliament at sunset, Its not Big Ben, I personally have never seen Big Ben and doubt I ever will see it in person, The clock tower is not even called St Stephens tower as some people suggest, Its just called the Clock tower and Big Ben is the name of the bell that chimes the hour.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Day 397 - The Sky at Night
30/1/12 - After the problems with my camera the other night I have been trying to work around the problems and tonight I had success, this was only a test photo BUT it seems to have worked :D
Day 396 - London Bridge
29/1/12 - While at the Tower of London the other day we had to stop off for a look at Tower Bridge.
Day 395 - The London Bear
28/1/12 - The Tower of London became home to the The Royal Menagerie in the year 1251 when Henry III received a Polar Bear as a gift from Norway, He was a huge attraction and would go swimming in the Thames (the Polar Bear, not Henry III).
Day 394 - Treasure
27/1/12 - I saw this money in the White Tower of the Tower in London and thought it would make a good photo, The tower of London was home to the Royal Mint from around 1279 until 1809 and Issac Newton help position of Warden of the mint for a time.
Day 393 - The Tower
26/1/12 - This door is in the Tower of London, building first began in the year of 1080 so that makes part of the tower of London 932 years old, it has also had some famous residents such as Guy Fawkes, Lady Jane Grey and Queen Anne Boleyn.
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