Heartland

boudicca wrote:
(Yeah, I know it's not the smartest to put your full name on a message board, but it's out there anyway in enough other posts where I'm claiming to be related to Stuart Morrow out of New Model Army )

I've told you before, you can't be related to him...............he's talented

boudicca wrote:

E Gypsy wrote:I had many people in my house last summer and two called Claire and I know neither were you.

Two Claire's-with-an-i... crikey jings, what's the chances of that! You must be very popular
No Claire Morrow's I take it? That would just be too weird.

(Yeah, I know it's not the smartest to put your full name on a message board, but it's out there anyway in enough other posts where I'm claiming to be related to Stuart Morrow out of New Model Army )

I don't know how they spell their names but they pronounce them as Claire. Two i's but no two Morrows

Ah well, there are only 135 of us in the UK (apparently)...

Never met another and I wouldn't care to - it'd be like bumping into someone with the same dress on

boudicca wrote:Ah well, there are only 135 of us in the UK (apparently)...

Never met another and I wouldn't care to - it'd be like bumping into someone with the same dress on

How awful. Perish the thought!

Well quite!

what's the story behind that piccy then?

It's just a mega pic of Avebury (where i live) that was taken by a friend of mine a few autumns ago. Just came across it as I was trawling through the computer looking for stuff (as you do).
Really dramatic picture don't you think?

Aye, it's very distinctive

Oh my, that's beautiful! I'll need to see that stone formation, as well...

It's the largest circle in England. Thought to date from around 2500 BC, it is a large earthwork bank and ditch surrounding a circle of standing stones.

The bank is around 450 yards in diameter, and its ditch was originally 30 feet deep

The standing stones comprise an outer circle and two inner circles, known as the northern and southern circles. These inner circles are believed to have been built first, with the outer circle and the surrounding earthworks being added around a century later.

The outer circle has four "gates" at roughly north, south, east and west. From two of these gates ran two great avenues. Only the West Kennett Avenue from the southern gate survives, and a small section of it has been reconstructed with a border of standing stones to show what it looked like. Originally this avenue led to the Sanctuary on Overton Hill.

Or so they reckon - personally I think God planted them to give the pagans something to dance around

You live in Avebury? Cool. I have some photos (proper chemicals-on-paper photos, not digital) of the Avebury stones somewhere.

E Gypsy wrote:It's just a mega pic of Avebury (where i live) that was taken by a friend of mine a few autumns ago. Just came across it as I was trawling through the computer looking for stuff (as you do).
Really dramatic picture don't you think?

no dramatic.....a bit "dark"

markfiend wrote:(proper chemicals-on-paper....

That doesn't surprise me

Whut?

smiscandlon wrote:

Nice pic Steven...the Leeds side streets that we slip down?

Planet Dave wrote:Nice pic Steven...the Leeds side streets that we slip down?

Just next to the Henry Moore Institute, I think? I could be getting confused, I really just did a whirlwind tour of the city centre before getting the train back (still took over 50 photos though!).

smiscandlon wrote:I could be getting confused, I really just did a whirlwind tour of the city centre before getting the train back (still took over 50 photos though!).

That's impressive! I took fewer photos than that (with my damned useless mobile phone cam) during my entire stay in Blighty!

SINsister wrote:

smiscandlon wrote:I could be getting confused, I really just did a whirlwind tour of the city centre before getting the train back (still took over 50 photos though!).

That's impressive! I took fewer photos than that (with my damned useless mobile phone cam) during my entire stay in Blighty!

I'm sure I looked like a total tourist ... traipsing around Leeds in my Heartland T-shirt taking pictures of everything.

Excellent! I'll be doing the same, eventually!

That outdoor chessboard reminds me of Hamburg...

The giant chessboards are outside the Art Gallery...next door to Town Hall!

Very popular.

Cool! Too bad I can't play chess.

And indeed right next door to the Henry Moore Institute. Lovely peaceful place to pass a summers afternoon, if you can bear the traffic fumes whilst watching the (usually) elder citizens pit their wits against eac hother.

Speaking of Hamburg, Reece is off in 2 weeks for his 2nd trip in 12 months, with skoo. Last time he came back with more pics of his female German students than the city, I expect much the same this time round.

Planet Dave wrote:Speaking of Hamburg, Reece is off in 2 weeks for his 2nd trip in 12 months, with skoo. Last time he came back with more pics of his female German students than the city, I expect much the same this time round.

Now that's what I call education