Determined to post photos...

[byslantedlight]

...cos I went out yesterday especially to take some with my new camera... Of course I also went out to go walking around a national nature reserve, but that didn't happen either and I ended up briefly at the beach... *g*

Yeah, they're pretty meh as far as pictures go, but it was overcast and not in a particularly interesting way... and people! I must remember that on a busy (bank holiday weekend) day Charmouth is not only busy, but resounds to the sound of people bashing away at rocks with hammers and children screaming. Not to mention the frustration of dogs on the beach despite signs saying clearly not allowed (presumably cos in summer they'll wee or poo exactly where the next naked toddler is about to start scooping up sand to eat) and of parents taking their kids to bash fossils out of the cliffs again despite signs saying not to - and, you know, common sense! What is it with people...?! /rant... *g*

On the bright side, that's not a boat in the first pic, but a huge sandcastle-village, complete with suburbs... *g* When I walked past again ten minutes later, mind, it was virtually submerged by the incoming tide!

And I saw the Avro Vulcan! I just happened to look up at a plane noise on my way back from the beach at Charmouth, and there it was! It was flying quite slowly - I nabbed this pic with my ordinary lens (18-55) and then got my telephoto lens out as fast as I could, but this was still the best pic, blown up to 200% - almost identical to the pic on this page - well in shape, not colour or clarity. *g* It's the last Vulcan flying, and it'll be grounded after this year, apparently, cos it's reached the end of its flying hours...

There was a pretty good sunset last night - I only realised when I happened to glance at the window and saw the clouds glowing red. Queue grabbing camera and legging it outside... *g*



In other news, I have been reading...That was my pile-to-post-about-on-lj a couple of weeks ago, at which point I told myself to stop being so ridiculous and to put them away, cos it was never going to happen... and since then I've read more, and many have been re-reads (Fair's Point, Point of Knives, Point of Dreams, A Fashionable Indulgence (yes, again, already...but I really want it in paperback, and it's not even promised by the publisher - waah! Such a waste...)

And now I'm going to have to go and do something that makes noise, before the current incredibly-loud-music-somewhere-bashing-across-the-countryside drives me mad... There I thought this was a reasonable backwater of countryside, with no reason other than the road to be anything other than peaceful... there is clearly going to be another move in my life, preferably before next summer, though quite honestly I can't face the thought yet... *sighs*

How're you all doing...? What's exciting in the world? Life? On the internet in front of you...? *g*

Comments

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Yay for Vulcan! Always wonderful to see it! :))
- and a great pic!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It'll be such a shame when we can't look up at a plane noise and have it turn out to be the Vulcan... and thanks! Lucky shot, really... *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha! It was the Vulcan I must have heard! It was on the wrong side of my hill to see, but I could tell from the noise that something big and glorious was up there! Though you're blooming brave to chance Charmouth at a weekend - meep!

I love the sunset piccies - how gorgeous are all those colours - wow! And your reading stack is wonderful! I keep meaning to post a picture of mine, mainly because it's hilarious... yours is far nicer!

I wonder what it is about peace and quiet that makes people want to break it? Weird! I'm starting to think too much peace actually offends some folk, or scares them, bless.

Happy weekend! And thank you for the piccies - I'm glad you're enjoying the new camera.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It looks like the Vulcan was zapping around the country yesterday, going from show to show, I'm so chuffed to have seen it! Big and glorious indeed... *g* As for Charmouth, I didn't mean to go there, but I couldn't quite find the NNR when I got to the right village, and then I found myself on the road to Bridport, and then I thought well, I could at least glance at the sea and see if there's a spot to park around Hive Beach, but I got to the roundabout turning, eyed the queued traffic, and took the turning back into Bridport itself instead... *g* Actually I had a brief wander there - it's a very cool town, I've decided, cos not only did I spot a Waterstones, I found two other bookshops without even trying! And then I ended up on the Charmouth road, and thought I'd see... it seemed a waste to get so near the sea and not even glimpse it... *g*

I guess if you're at the festival then you're not looking for peace and quiet, and of course you're not - it's just that when your desire for noise-and-fun affects other people's lives for weeks on end (bad enough, days on end...) to the point that they seriously consider paying money to go and live somewhere else for a while... well, how d'you reconcile that with any kind of thoughtfulness for other people (which I always thought was what Christians were supposed to be about...) I just don't get how the organisers can think that's okay - or what the people who live even nearer the showground do for the six weeks! Mind you, I've never been able to listen to music whilst I read, and lots of people can, so...

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, yes, the traffic round here is a nightmare; plus we get at least one really bad accident every week somewhere between Lyme and Dorchester, and with no alternative routes, the whole bottom end of Dorset more or less grinds to a halt... which is why I always carry a book, bar of chocolate, blanket and bottled water... and that's just to go as far as the supermarket!

Six weeks of noise is way too much. I used to live smack in the middle of a 10 day festival, and while I loved the change of pace, very much more and I'd probably have got inventive with a meat cleaver *g* Six weeks? I'd be grinding my teeth by now too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It always throws me that there's really only the one route down your way - though I tend to veer off and go on little tiny roads when I can (which sometimes mean I end up about two inches from where I started when I tried to escape the highway, but oh well - the middle bit's usually fun... *g*)

Landlord just told me that the Christians are off home tomorrow - so I guess their website doesn't give the right dates even. Gargh! I tried using it to find out when they were going to be playing stuff really loud and late so that I could escape it if I got really desperate, but they don't actually have a schedule up, so that's no help... On the bright side, I suppose it's still them, rather than some other mystery source that might go on even longer...

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Wow, Lady, how fast do you read?! Or is that several months worth? Because that's how long it would take me.

And moving again? Are you some kind of masochist? *g* The place you're in now sounds so lovely, isn't there someway to deal with the music? Like going over and saying something to the people? I've found that often that's all it takes. Or is that not a possibility?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's... since the 4th July, which is when I started a bookpost and didn't finish so left it locked to private... *headdesk* So it's about six weeks worth, I guess?

The place I'm in is fair enough, and it was good for when I needed it pretty quickly, but it's not quite right in a few ways. No views from the windows, I can't see grass or trees or anything country-ish like that (so I might as well live in town from that pov); it's not quite big enough for as many bookshelves as I need, for example... *g* And there's no way of stopping the noise because it's a) 4 days of the Glastonbury festival across the fields; b) 6 weeks of the Christian festivals across different fields (it never would have occurred to me that they'd be a problem, even if I knew they were on, but no, they play really loud music day and night, for long enough to disturb work/reading quietly etc. That said, i'm not sure where this morning's is from, cos I thought that festival was over last Wednesday... I could live with Glastonbury cos it's 4 days, and I can live with the 3-day NAD festival after that, but... six weeks+ is a bit much...

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

What stunning sunset photos and you were quick to capture the vulcan! I've been to airshows and know how hard it is and that's when I'm ready for them!

I am off tomorrow, crack of dawn, to Sydney with my daughter for a week. We are going to a conference where we are doing a presentation but we will have some down time as well and I am trying to fit my SLR into my suitcase! I guess the best way to learn is to practise because I haven't read the idiots guide yet! Then the day after I arrive home I'm going to a three hour writing class titled 'show don't tell' presented by an author which I'm really looking forward to.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Luckily the Vulcan was flying pretty slowly! I've taken pics at airshows too, and I know just what you mean!

Ooh for your writing class, how fab - is an author I might have heard of? *g* And ooh for taking your camera to Sidney too - lots of fab photo possibilities there! A work conference, or...? I'm fascinated that it's with your daughter and you're presenting though - is she in the same line of work, or is this some other fun thing? I'm just nosy, feel free to ignore! *g*

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

Yes it is work and she is in the same business as me :)

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

This is the blurb about the person running the writing course...
David Chapple is the Writing Development Manager at the SA Writers Centre. He has a Masters in Creative Writing, specialising in writing and health, and has worked as the writer in residence for a number of programs in mental health and disability services, as well as working as a writing teacher in prisons and schools.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Very cool, on both counts! *g*

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Your pictures make me happy :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay! *g* (All good?)

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Stunning photos. I actually really like the overcast-beach ones!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm quite partial to big-sky beach ones myself, but I assume other people won't be really, so I'm extra-glad you like them - yeay! *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

There's a kind of melancholy to your beach pictures that I find quite riveting. And what an amazing sunset, for sure. Marvellous colours!

What a shame that you're thinking of moving again - how much notice do you have to give? Or do you have to wait until your lease is up - and if so, will you then have a deadline to be out by? Shame if it all had to happen in a rush again.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ooh, melancholy grey beach... I like that idea, thank you! And the sunset, the exact opposite! *g*

Oh, landlords here are fine, it's just a month's notice after the first six months, which were up a while ago, so... I'd definitely try not to do it in a rush, though - that wasn't fun at all! But then I might still be here next summer after all - I suppose it'll depend what happens in between. And really it would make more sense if I could sort things out and fit them in a place this size anyway... Well, we'll see. And I'm bound to be more optimistic now the Christians have gone home - such blissful peace and quiet today, I barely knew what to do with myself! *g*