Across the Pennines

Wonder if photobucket is always going to be ridiculously slow.......

Yesterday set off across the Pennines. Going by bus and via Rochdale in the hope of calling into Toad Lane. Set off much too late so will hopefully be tomorrow.

It’s Green Up North



Coming into Halifax



And from Halifax bus station a lovely lowryesque upland scene



Here is the top of the pennines.



Here is Lancashire side



And here is a Particular Baptist Chapel!



I arrive in Manky



Pass through Co-op corner looking for a bus to Longsight



A statue of the Immortal (though sadly now dead) Robert Owen



The Town Hall



Hopefully more to follow, can’t say when though........

Roll Out the Barrel! (occasional photoblogging part whatever of whatever)

Damn, is it me or is photobucket slow? Anyway here goes. Perhaps blogging always takes more time than expected even a quickie post, hence it’s decline. But then even in the golden age of blogging, which I seem to have missed alas, 97% of internet users had never dialed up a blog, or so I heard on the radio.

Must be lots of pics of this ample statue, but here is mine. A gift from Leeds twin city.



Here he is from another angle



And here’s the sign.



Rite, better get a bath and bus to Sheepscar.

Blogging from home (part one of an occasional or very occasional series)

I’m very low in energy at the moment. Facial pain, Insomnia, dissertation blues etc...

Anyway a blog post or ten is well overdue so will do my best.

Here’s a random shot of the brand spanking new Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building



Bloody daffodils!



Something else growing all by itself in the front garden. No doubt the rargwort will be up again soon. The rest of the garden is of course a slug farm and ragwort plantation...



Here’s the obamagedon shot in context.



Not got my head round the graphics editor. A close up shows a bar code, so Obamacoded...



And here is the shelf I put up today. Well done me!

International Global No Facebook Day 2009

I do believe it is Global International no Facebook Day today. I certainly joined a group, just wondering if I got the right day. Managed to remember not to log onto Facebook, hoorah!

Escape From Facebook (explaining a former facebook status by using 3 dimensions)

Trying to explain a joke....

Desperate Photoblogging (part four?)

Perhaps now is not the time to rant about noise pollution….

For a while alas the connection lead for my Kodak Easyshare C1013 was missing, managed to find it in very partial tidy up of parts of my flat (aka The Swamp). So some experimental pics

Here is a supermarket trolley from Tesco that has “conked out/bought the farm”



Bloody Students! Respect though Kirkstall Breweries is a long way from Tesco.



And this would make a wonderful Absolutely Northern! L S Lowry. Like Ebbw Vale in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry where I was briefly a volunteer).



And this is me.

Facebook exercises part 2, fun with the MP3 player

for those of you not on Facebook (yes it sucks but alas a channel of communication that I am rather dependent on in a world full of poor communication....)

Had a bit of a problem with this one. Think my larger 1 gig MP3 player has no shuffle button or none I could find. Had downloaded everything from my old half gig player first of course....

instructions read:-

1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

my answers were....

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Your Hurting Kinda Love- dusty

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Come into the Light- Bliss

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Spirit of the Mountain -Midori

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Anthem of the USSR (sung in English Translation by Paul Robeson)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
I'm coming Home Again - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Coat of Many Colours - Dolly Parton

WHAT IS 2+2?
Pagan Born - Inkubus Sukkubus

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
YMCA - Village People

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
I Can't Make it All Alone - Dusty

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Internationale - In Spanish

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Evening Star - Kevin Kendle

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING:
Yesterday When I was Young - Dusty

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL
Oxygen - Jean Micheal Jarre but played by the London fantasy orchestra

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST:
This Love - Bliss

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I'll Be Waiting - Bliss

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Naked - Bliss

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?:
Thaxted/Jupiter - Elgar but likesay by London Fantasy Orchestra

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Grace - Bliss

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?:
Anthem of the United Federation of Planets

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Om Shanti - Bliss

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?:
O Fortuna - Carmina Burrana/Orff but London Fantasy Orchestra

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?:
England Arise! - Edward Carpenter (instrumental)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Sunrise - Bliss

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?:
How Can I Be Sure - Dusty

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?:
I Will Come to You - Dusty

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Chi Mai - London Fantasy Orchestra original Ennio Morricone

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?:
Some of Your Lovin - Dusty Springfield

Shameful and shameless photoblogging with maybe a bit more.. (part three in what may or may not be an occasional series….)

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Here in Leeds we have the Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Met, a splendid firm indeed! Went to one of the public lectures. Good to see corporate advertising.



Said lecture was on public art, and the Leeds Brick Man versus The Angel of The North or the Angel of the North versus the Leeds Brick Man. Down on the compost heap of England the Angel of The South is under construction. It will be bigger because they feel a certain need down in the Sarf to overcompensate of course.

I do wonder however about the Black Dyke Band. Aren’t any of them Bruvvas? They all seem white…



Then up the road to another University.



It’s that time of the month.



Ok I am just playing with my camera



Eligo In Suma Pontifico

Hasta La Victoria Siempre!/Meet The New Boss

A long and heroic pilgrimage to Kirkstall Abbey.

Some quick photoblogging. Jess not appearing as she is shy or I think she said she was… Oh well she can upload to her travel blog. Hi Jess!

Inside the Abbey Steeplehouse.



Looking up! Oh I do like this shot…



More of the same I think.



The lighting effects I am particularly pleased with…



The Cloister



From the Cloister



And when you know where to look…..



Really must learn how to blog in a hurry….

Down on the Farmers Market

In Britain if you want to buy a farmer you go to a farmers market. If you want to buy a farmers market you go to a farmers market market. And if you want to buy a farmers market market you're being silly

Shameful and shameless photoblogging (part two in what may or may not be an occasional series….)

A snowperson



Another snowbeing



And as I walked through the snow another snowcreature of not exactly definite species and gender but hey who cares….




Wonderful Advertising with tasteful additions purely in the interest of art of course….



Close up



Interesting tower, or is it a bartisan? Still haven’t got my head round the architectural lingo… exciting eh?



The tower/bartisan in all it’s glory!



Snow in the heart of the campus



The Chancellor’s Court



More to come…. bet you can’t wait……

Textual Harassment (maybe part six of an occasional series...)

Just clearing the memory from my moby. Possibly deleted a few pearls of wisdom and amazing texts which are now lost forever. Herewith the remainder.....

From Becs on New Year's Eve

"2008 was a year of trial & error but we all came out stronger and wiser."

From Linda on new year’s eve also

"2009 is at the door… Remember, Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss lips slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and mostly remember to never regret anything that made you smile."

From Kevin

"A 6ft 4in man in toilet looks 2 his left 7 sees a little man peeping out a huge penis he says that the biggest penis I’ve ever seen the other man says im a leprechaun & we all have big ones. Tall man says I wish I had 1 like that. Leprechaun says I’ll grant u that wish if u let me screw you 1st. Man not sure but agrees. so leprechaun humpin away says what age are u son. tall man says 36. Imagine that 36 & still believe in leprechans!! "

From The Lovely Becs at Imbolc

"Remember on this snowy Imbolc that far beneath the bitter snow there is a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose x x brightest blessings and a happy Imbolc to all x x x"

Shameless Photo-Blogging (part one of an occasional series so long as my camera holds out….)

Right, have camera still. So a bit of shameless photoblogging…..

Harry Pothead!



And here is the statue of Joseph Priestly, Unitarian vicar of Leeds until he went to Birmingham. Wrong way vicar…….



Of course the Brummies burned down his home and laboratory… so he fled to Amerika which I suppose before Joe McCarthy made sense.

Some lovely female form and body beautiful



Not just, ahem, er….



Goth Alert!



Though I thought that goth was more for death…. Bewhare of Whitby! Even the vicar is a goth!

Random shot of Woodsley Road looking south.



Another Camera Crew! Not the same one honest….



Fancy a Christian?



Random shot of The Great Hall in the snow



Bloody Students!



Snowperson



Right must be off could be away from the net for some time…..