close
glinda: pirate TARDIS (pirate TARDIS)
[personal profile] glinda
So, since I last posted... I've been to Reading, Maidenhead, Wincester, Southampton and now Bristol. I've only nearly forgotten to get off the train where I should and headed off to Bournemouth twice... Both [livejournal.com profile] moviegrrl and [livejournal.com profile] stimpy_lfs (neither of whom I've seen in two years so it was awesome to catch up) have been good enough to put me up along the way. I've finished Screen Burn so have technically read four years worth of Charlie Brooker columns in the past month (the boys at my work decided that as I spent a good deal of my working day reading them in the guardian it would be a good gift - its an excellent book for dipping in an out of on journeys). Also I've booked my ticket home, miraculously train travel was actually cheaper so I'm spending most of Sunday on an epic journey back up North, which should hopefully see me finish Cloud Atlas which I think I'll call an achievement.

I could write epics on the architectural attractiveness of Wincester so, I'll leave that for it's own post with (hopefully) photographs. However, the great hall there has King Arthur's Round Table - I do love the fake history of 6th century England - and they have an rather good musuem covering the more accurate history of the area in the 6th century (and most of the last 2000 years to be honest).

I'm a bit in love with Bristol, if I'm entirely honest. The youth hostel is handily situated on the harbourside, between two arts centres, near the cathedral and several museums. There are fabulous tea shops just up the road, losts of sculptures and fountains, a river to go boat trips on and a latin restruant across the river that does excellent food and cocktails. It's as though the city deliberately set out to seduce me. (Look, some people have holiday romances with inhabitants, I just fall in love with cities, I'm aware of how odd this makes me, alright?) There was even a free screening of an obscure and politically interesting documentary (Rocking the Foundations) three doors up from the hostel, I'm doomed.

And I'm off to Cardiff tomorrow *dances happily* I may implode with joy.

Profile

glinda: yellow crocus on a bed of snow (Default)
glinda

July 2026

M T W T F S S
  1234 5
678 9101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Notes from the Wanderer

Arthur:"Normality, ha. We can talk about normality till the cows come home."
Ford:"What is normal?"
Trillian:"Where is home?"
Zaphod:"What are cows?"
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

"I pretty much repress everything Maths related."
- Buffy

"You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. Always and never. If I have to die for you tonight, I will."
- Sin City

"Pazuzu you ungrateful gargoyle, I put you through college and this is how you repay me?"
- Futurama

Kryten: "Is it just me, or is that cockroach shuffling too loudly?
Rimmer: "Kryten, it's called a hangover, don't panic."
Lister: "We're on a mining ship, three million years into deep space... can someone explain to me where the smeg I got this traffic cone?"
The Cat: "Hey! It's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone! It's the police woman's helmet and the suspenders I don't understand! "
- Red Dwarf

The Operative: "That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain."
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: "Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it."
- Serenity

"You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
- Breakfast at Tiffany's

"Love is merely an emotional adaptation to a purely physical need."
- A Life Less Ordinary

"It's supposed to be ironic."
- Donnie Darko

"Smell is the most powerful memory trigger there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell - musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be smelly."
- Giles, BTVS

Creativity is... viewing the world from a different angle. Taking things from everyday life that otherwise might seem mundane and go un-noticed, and turning them into something beautiful. Finding beauty where there seems to be none and changing the perceptions of others so they can see that beauty too. Making something out of seemingly nothing...

"They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace."
- Dorothy Thompson

"Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
- Dalai Lama

"First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me."
- Pastor Martin Niemöller

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
- Maya Angelou

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated 13 Jul 2026 02:52 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios