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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2012 21:00:02 GMT
Yes, I had a meeting in London, so I decided to drive there ....... in a boat. I love planes and boats!!! I started from here. Went all the way down to: Dropped by here to see if any mates were in: Went back to: Passed her Majesty: Got checked out: Finally arrived for the meeting at: It was a lovely day today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2012 22:26:54 GMT
Nice series of pics Ian, hope your meeting went well. Alan
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 17:52:31 GMT
It was such a nice day down here, Alan I couldn't resist making a trip of it. I went past the city down into Shakespeare/Dickens land and back again before getting into the city. I had a quick look for Madonna .... I'm not sure if she's gone now. The police were hilarious. They came alongside and stared for fifteen minutes and then left. Very strange. I thought my flies must have been undone in a public place or something!! I just thought - maybe the police thought I was driving with undue care and attention but it wasn't a phone I was holding, but a camera and that isn't in their law breaking books perhaps!! The beauty of a digital camera is how easy it is to get a shot with one hand!! It's a weird place. Seeing it on film it doesn't look real but the centre wasn't too crowded believe it or not. That big, tall, skinny building is called 'The Shard' and is still being built. It's going to be the tallest set of flats in the EU I think and the top apartment is selling for £10 million. Ridiculous. I dread to think what a power cut will be like up there!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 20:03:02 GMT
Hi Ian, reasonable weather lifts most places in the UK and a good bright day certainly lifts the quality of your pics to show just how scenic the river can be, quite colourful too. Digital photography especially with a reasonable quality hand sized camera just lends it's self to clicking away merry-lie, the only downside I find is the hundreds of shots I need to sift through for the odd gem. I doubt you would get me up the "Shard" let alone live in it. My elder son lived in a multi story block of flats for a short while, he said it swayed in high winds. I found his flat then pretty claustrophobic. Regards, Alan
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 20:51:01 GMT
Can you imagine what it'll be like up there? Swinging like a pendulum. There has to be a lot of give in that building. In real life, it is huge and you don't see the size in the photos really until I took one once I got further away. They're way too expensive and on a cloudy day, you're above the clouds so you can't see the ground anyway!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2012 11:45:52 GMT
The pics make me wanna visit London.
Maybe I will ... someday. It's clear that has to be on a sunny day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2012 15:17:50 GMT
The pics make me wanna visit London. Maybe I will ... someday. It's clear that has to be on a sunny day. Yes, Frans. My camera is only showing the best bits!! I was lucky also in that it wasn't crowded. The police presence was funny since they literally went parallel so there is obviously a lot of suspicion going around!! For me, Holland is beautiful too. I have often driven to Holland as well!! The funniest place I stayed was Valkenburg. (I think that's how you spell it) Right on the border to Germany - full of bullet holes from the war and an amazing set of natural underground tunnels that the Dutch enticed the German Army into so that they got lost down there!!! Absolutely amazing. For me. the countryside is more important. I don't like crowds (unless they're paying for a ticket) I'm afraid I am most certainly a hermit nowadays. Many people can be extremely annoying so the quiet and remoteness of living in a field like I do, is really nice. How Madonna could live there with kids I don't know. Canary Wharf is an odd place. Also, who would want to pay £10 million to swing about in an apartment at the top of the 'Shard'. Crazy really.
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Post by gommer on Jun 22, 2012 16:06:41 GMT
The photo of the Gherkin brought other associations than a building for me. It seems I'm not alone, since google-ing for 'London D**do' came up with lot's of links about the building. Actually that's how I found it's called the Gherkin, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2012 17:34:06 GMT
It's quite funny how these buildings go up with no attempt whatsoever to blend in with their surroundings. London is full of oddities.
I briefly went to a museum as well. It's all about black slavery in London and how the West India Docks were used to get them into the country.
It's quite eerie and the whole area seems like it's full of ghosts from the past what with Dickens, Shakespeare etc. Seeing some of the places that Dickens wrote about in London is strange. There's a little dock area where he based 'Oliver Twist' (Where Fagin lived) that I saw and it still looks like very old London and of course down at Greenwich, there's the Cutty Sark. A lovely clipper.
London seems more alive to me in the 1700 - 1800 than it does now. Now it seems a bit like a botch job, but fascinating to look at. (and the people that work/live there)
If I was still recording, I'd use those types of places as the inspiration for some new stuff, not based around commercialism but something a little more grown up and serious. The sense of history and what went on there kind of connects with me much more nowadays. Rather like Thomas Dolby's fascination with wartime and submarines. (He lost a relative in the war) He connects very much so with that but for me, it's further back and very inspirational - the normal folk living in 'dire' conditions. Making the most of what I see as a very dingy life.
I guess we don't realise just how privileged we all are nowadays.
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Post by mrarroyo on Jun 23, 2012 0:51:11 GMT
Awesome pics!
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 30, 2012 8:30:04 GMT
You'd shart your pants at the top of the shard That would have been a good name for it.... the "shart"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 8:43:01 GMT
;D
Apparently, the people up there will swing in breezes!!! Top appartment is a steal at £10,000,000.
You'd need a bloody long fishing line.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 30, 2012 8:54:33 GMT
Ten million to live at the top of a swinging shart? They must have more money than sense Ian. What kind of boat do you have, was it hired? I remember going down Little Venice in a barge thing (many years ago), that was a nice boat ride, it went through the zoo... it was pishing down but the barge had a canvas roof on it so not a problem.... do they still do trips from Little Venice?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 13:37:37 GMT
I 'borrowed' it, Mike. I don't know about little Venice. What surprised me was the cops going up and down the river. We were stared at for about 10 minutes and I thought we'd get stopped or something. I've no idea why.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 30, 2012 19:40:25 GMT
I 'borrowed' it, Mike. I don't know about little Venice. What surprised me was the cops going up and down the river. We were stared at for about 10 minutes and I thought we'd get stopped or something. I've no idea why. It's all that "security" shite with the run up to the "olympics".... London is ALREADY a police state (these days) with cameras watching you 24/7 (an open prison even) but will now be upped to a paranoia state of alert as there will soon be people running around a track, pole vaulting, long jumping (and other mindless sporting disciplines) with a large physical audience and global TV audience watching them... that means upping "security" and barriers and here was me thinking the olympics was all about unity and "freedom" Either that or they spotted you and said "that's the guy from the human league!" Copper one: "no it's not, looks more like Peter Frampton to me" Copper two: "No way, that's him that played the organ with Human League" Copper three: "bollocks! I think he's a shady looking terrorist, let's nick him and lock him up until the olympics have past" Copper two: "no no no, it IS him, I went to one of his concerts... it's that Phil Oakey guy wearing a wig" Copper one: "right enough.... it is that bloke from the Human League but it's not Phil Oakwood it's that other one with the double barreled name.... what was his name again?" Copper three: "Shady looking character I say nick him, look he's taking photos of our boat!" Copper two: "that's not a camera, it's a microphone he's holding... what a pro... look, he's waving at us!" Copper one: "I think he wants us to sing... I'm sure I heard him shouting all the pigs on the river sing "don't you want me baby"....... WOW! Yes, that's what he wants us to do.... he's asking us to sing!! Copper one, two and three: "don't you want me baby? Don't you want me ohhhh?!" Man in boat: I can't hear you, let me hear you singing!" Copper one, two and three: DON'T YOU WANT ME BABY? DON'T YOU WANT ME OHHH?!!" Control to Police boat 3: "what the F@ck is going down there, over"? Police boat three to Control: "We have a possible Human League situation occuring, it requires our immediate response. Scenario three is they were simply interested in your sailing skills
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 30, 2012 20:53:27 GMT
Was she ever there?
I never saw the fascination for that type of pap.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 21:31:17 GMT
'Let Me Go' - The Luxury Gap. They could have a number of their own: Could be Gary Glitter - 'You wanna be in My Gang? Oh Yeah' ;D
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 30, 2012 22:55:39 GMT
'Let Me Go' - The Luxury Gap. They could have a number of their own: Could be Gary Glitter - 'You wanna be in My Gang? Oh Yeah' ;D How do you go about hiring a boat Ian? I'd like to hire a boat and sail over to Peru.... is that doable / legal / viable? do they charge by the mile / hour and is a "boating" licence a requirement?
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Post by XTRProf on Jul 1, 2012 2:10:38 GMT
Why are you in London? To meet Johnny English? M16 HQ in London?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 7:11:01 GMT
Why are you in London? To meet Johnny English? M16 HQ in London? I was looking for Madonna the Disco Duck. She lived there with Guy Ritchie. Mike, I doubt if anyone would give their boat over to a landlubber. I didn't have to pay 'cos it was someone I know but I guess it would cost a lot. In any case, taking a boat to Peru would take a lot of nerve to say the least. One degree out on the sat nave and you'd hit Antarctica!!! Or worse ....... Argentina!! Let alone the weather out there. I was out once in a force 9 on a boat and it was bloody scary. One minute, there was a cliff above us made up of water and the next minute there was a bloody great hole we were falling into. I had to bold myself to the boat to avoid getting swept off or falling on deck. It's absolutely terrifying. You lose track of which way is up and your brain gets very confused. How about hijacking a fisherman's trawler from the harbour and bringing it triumphantly into London Docks? Have the bagpipes wailing on the front with Mike Oldfield a wailing at the back on his guitar. That might get the cops' attention.
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Post by XTRProf on Jul 1, 2012 13:20:59 GMT
Eh, Titanic 2 coming, Ian? You director? Yeah, your storyboard must be along the line of rising the Titanic too before it can sink again going across the Atlantic. Mike, retired David Manley can give you very good suggestions. Guaranteed!
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Post by XTRProf on Jul 1, 2012 13:29:38 GMT
She lived there with Guy Ritchie.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 18:42:49 GMT
She lived there with Guy Ritchie. Ah - my favourite. Crispy child served on a platter ...... with a bottle of 'Chianti' Cue: Bach's Goldberg Variation Theme but play very slowly.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 16:55:35 GMT
The view from the shard:
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Post by layums on Aug 9, 2012 11:12:30 GMT
25 squids. no need, just seen it on youtube.
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