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Friday, October 20, 2006

English Castle Magic

Its very far away,
It takes about a half and a day to get there,
If we travel by my uh, dragon-fly
So we've been to Windsor Castle twice this year, had a nosey at King John's Castle at South Warnborough, near Odiham, even though it's a ruin and getting worse, stood under the keep at Guildford Castle, spent a sunny day at Rochester Castle, Kent, and just spent some time at the most excellent Arundel Castle, Sussex.

Arundel Castle

And that reminds me... there's an oil painting I did of Dunstanburgh Castle at my mum's that I haven't seen in years... I'll show that to Becky this weekend when we're in Henlow, Bedfordshire, for the beer festival at the Engineer's Arms.

Blue Skies thinking @ 10/20/2006 01:48:00 AM  

11 Comments:

  • At Mon Oct 23, 06:37:00 AM, Blogger Jay said…

    Whoa, did you just say oil paintings AND beer festival in the same breath? Becky is one lucky lady! :)

     

  • At Mon Oct 23, 08:22:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    Jay: Erm... OK I forgot to show the the oil painting and the beer fest was just yours truly...

     

  • At Mon Oct 23, 10:54:00 AM, Blogger Jemima said…

    Castles though, woah! Loving the castles.

    It'd be a nightmare to heat a castle though. And you'd need a vacuum cleaner for each wing. And what kind of an insecure bighead would display themselves to the world by living in a castle.

    And all this WITHOUT a beer festival. Wow.

     

  • At Mon Oct 23, 10:59:00 AM, Blogger BeckyBumbleFuck said…

    LMFAO.
    You're funny, cutie. :)

    And there always will be more beer festivals....but OIL PAINTING???!! Wahhhhhh! I wanna see! (Your Mom never got around to diggin' up some old photos of you either... ;) I was doing a little spywork...)

     

  • At Mon Oct 23, 01:59:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Jemima: Oh yes, castles are definitely on the menu this year :D

    Yeah, vacuuming the castle... jeez! Get this... Arundel castle was one of the first places in England to have electricity installed, back in the late 19th century for a whopping... 35 GRAND!!! Bighead but loaded ;)

    Yeah, beer fest should have been in the castle...

    My BBFK: Yes, you will be at a beer festival with one's drunken self... You can stay on the Badger and I'll just float around... ;)

    Yes, I forgot the oil...

    And yes, I knew you were hawking the fuzzy-haired kid photos... ;) :p

    So, in a word, YES :)

     

  • At Tue Oct 24, 02:09:00 AM, Blogger searchingforMrDarcy said…

    engineer's arms. One what is that? ANd if it's a name of a pub or town that is just hilarious. I have visions of all these engineers missing there arms. Well which I guess could be gross, but funny in a Reanimator sort of way.

    PS those silos are on my blog

     

  • At Tue Oct 24, 09:14:00 AM, Blogger Lever said…

    SfMD: LOL It's the name of a pub... And it's Arms as in a coat-of-arms, here's some great info on pub names ;)

    But yeah, I can see loads of hands crawling around the place ordering pints... ;) :D

    I see your silos... shame they're not beer silos ;)

     

  • At Wed Oct 25, 04:21:00 PM, Blogger rebekah said…

    so uh, you taking me on my next vacation or what?

     

  • At Wed Oct 25, 06:46:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Rebekah: LOL Yeah why not? =D

     

  • At Thu Oct 26, 07:49:00 AM, Blogger searchingforMrDarcy said…

    Cool link on the pub names. I think I'll go out and open one myself just so I can make up a funny name.

    Dud what happened to your picture. OR is the X your new picture ;)

     

  • At Thu Oct 26, 12:15:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    SfMD: You're very welcome :) Yeah, open up a pub, we'll be down to advise on the best beer to serve :D

    S'OK, there's some server issues somewhere... if it's the castle that disappeared then it's an issue with flickr... ;)

     

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