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Post by onlyMark on May 25, 2018 14:41:28 GMT
Probably to have a small open market area below? I seem to remember quite a few mid-sized town markets had a similar building but the upstairs was a counting house rather than a school.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 28, 2018 18:01:43 GMT
Kerouac...I have no idea...but probably what Mark says These small towns and villages have run down areas too...I just don't tend to visit them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 1, 2018 19:21:42 GMT
True, it can be useful to have a sheltered open area under a building.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2020 17:03:16 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2020 17:14:31 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 13, 2020 17:15:58 GMT
Great pictures!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 13, 2020 17:46:51 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 13, 2020 22:02:59 GMT
I think the K-9 series is the only one that I never saw.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2020 3:02:39 GMT
Fabulous, fantastic fun, Cheery! Love your pictures.
Did you all ask the Daleks questions & were they Dalek-specific or questions to them as actors?
Even though I have no interest in dressing up, I'm always interested in costumes & amazed by the inventiveness and commitment of cosplayers.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 14, 2020 9:40:30 GMT
The first talk was mostly about cybermen, and they basically showed slides and explained how the costumes were made...it was really interesting. The dalek one was a Q&A and hilarious...certain words would trigger frantic dalek shouting (they all had the microphone that changes the cosplayer's voice). Hearing 6 daleks singing 'Happy Birthday' was very funny.
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Post by lugg on Feb 14, 2020 10:17:32 GMT
It looks a great fun event Cheery. I had to laugh at Charlie refusing to hold the teddy, no sense of fun there then.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2020 22:55:31 GMT
It does sound greatly amusing, Cheery.
Maybe Charles just didn't want to engage in something eccentric, or maybe he thought, "Hmm. I am after all one of the major symbols of the ruling class and teddy there might just hold an explosive device."
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 9, 2020 14:13:18 GMT
Good point Bixa! I went into town on Friday and took my camera. There is a 'light exhibition' on in the city centre every evening. I wouldn't venture into town on my own after dark and the miserable bastards menfolk in my family don't want to accompany me (even when enticed by the possibility of beer) SO....I visited a couple of the exhibits just to see what I was missing. Here is a brief video from youtube of the event I only took a few photos, the effect is lost in daylight really...
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 9, 2020 21:07:40 GMT
That looks like a lot of fun. Ever since LEDs have entered our lives, they really do all sorts of amazing things with lighting effects these days.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 1, 2020 16:44:21 GMT
On Thursday I went into town to donate blood. I planned to take a lot of photos. but I was a bit wrung out post donation.... so I only took a few Guildhall Lane. The blood donor centre is on theright of this pic,the white bars of the gate are visible. Jeff dropped me off at the other side of the Highcross square (top of pic) Looking the other way....this area would normally be quite busy with visitors to the Cathedral and the many little coffee shops along the lane. Turning left at the end of the lane...this is Carts Lane (I think) which has an old pub on the right (The Globe...nice food) which was of course closed...on the left some little stores including the Goldsmiths where I had a ring made. At the top you can see the High Street where the Mall is (also called The Highcross) This area is usually very busy. Out on the High Street walking towards the clock Tower Not a lot of people about. Most were wearing masks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2020 16:46:23 GMT
Looks like Paris in March! We've all been through so much.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 1, 2020 17:05:43 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 1, 2020 17:46:12 GMT
The initial lockdown area altho Wigston and Oadby are out now....I'm inside the red line, on the left (literally) near the A47.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2020 22:06:52 GMT
Whew, Cheery! These pictures of a normally big thriving town really bring home the strangeness and danger of the times we're living right now. I guess it's nice to see it with a lot of people in the way, but let's hope that sometime soon all those people will be in the way again. I'm inside the red line, on the left (literally)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 25, 2020 19:19:45 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 25, 2020 20:53:12 GMT
I'm excited on your behalf and envious on my & the dogs' behalf. I imagine Django was beside himself with joy. Beautiful area!
What does "lake full of wild bir" mean?
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Post by bjd on Sept 26, 2020 6:32:22 GMT
Birds, I guess, Bixa.
I fail to see the need for stencils telling you to keep 2 m apart in a place outside where there is nobody. Obviously if you are out for a walk, you are not going to stepping on anyone's toes and breathing down their necks.
Glad you could get out, Cheery.
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Post by mossie on Sept 26, 2020 6:58:20 GMT
A breath of fresh air for you, and secondhand for us, thanks. Lovely snap of the heron.
I reckon a bir is a little bird Bixa.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 26, 2020 7:43:29 GMT
OMG...nobody mentioned my mistyping of 'country park' without the 'o' Excuses excuses...I used my laptop to post the pics as for some reason my tablet won't allow me to use the post-image facility....my laptop's keyboard is possessed of a demon...honest. I reckon the 'bir' was the least of my problems...incidentally the lake is full of wild pterodactyl, hippos and 'Bir' which are a savage form of mermaids...very cross because they've always got a cold. Honest.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 9:47:53 GMT
I'm happy that you got out a bit. So many people are going stir crazy. I bet that some of the prisoners recently released at the completion of their sentence are quite disappointed with "freedom" though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 26, 2020 11:44:38 GMT
Gawd, I am slipping! Either that or weirdly over-thinking. All I could think of was that bir was some kind of flora. I also missed the really good typo and am shattered to see that you have corrected it.
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Post by mossie on Sept 26, 2020 14:19:27 GMT
I did notice the other typo but thought it a sly reference to what other fauna was occasionally being exercised there.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 16:17:48 GMT
I saw all of the typos but I was too elegant to mention them.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 26, 2020 19:05:09 GMT
Of course...I must read and edit before I post in future.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2020 19:34:24 GMT
Rereading old posts of mine, I often correct things 2 or 3 years later, which makes me wonder if everybody was being polite or if they are as stupid as I am.
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