I really like how this photo from the weekend turned out.
Great shot, Gud! Boy in full flight.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Sep 24, 2013 8:25:00 am PDT #6460 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Sep 24, 2013 8:28:58 am PDT #6461 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is why so many castles now have tours/tea/guest rooms, etc. And are, per my coworker who went on a "Downton" tour, often freezing cold and somewhat dilapidated inside.
le nubian - Sep 24, 2013 8:44:07 am PDT #6462 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Doing a shotgun run here.
Cash, best wishes. I hope the tumor is easily treatable.
ita, your people in Kenya are amazing. I kind of want her around me at all times.
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2013 8:46:09 am PDT #6463 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This is why so many castles now have tours/tea/guest rooms, etc.
And/or have been handed over to the National Trust.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2013 8:47:19 am PDT #6464 of 30000
brillig
There's a BBC series called Country House Revealed, where they go through some country houses that aren't open to the public. There's one that's suffering subsidence from wartime coal mining in the front lawn and another one where the owner is trying to restore it. It shows a lot of the dilapidated rooms.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 8:49:51 am PDT #6465 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Overall, I'm willing to argue that a $2m apartment in Williamsburg is a better value than a $2m castle in the south of France. Not for square footage or bragging rights, but for an actual useful place to live.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2013 9:01:12 am PDT #6466 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You are clearly insane.
Amy - Sep 24, 2013 9:02:53 am PDT #6467 of 30000
Because books.
None of you are invited to my castle. Hmph.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 9:07:13 am PDT #6468 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
an actual useful place to live.
Well, if you're going to change the ground rules...
ita, your people in Kenya are amazing. I kind of want her around me at all times.
When we visited, her husband was driving us through downtown Nairobi and suddenly we heard reports of machine gun fire. Like, not news reports--the sounds of machine guns. Which I could have said, but why backspace when you can ramble? ANYWAY. Machine guns go off, somewhere. Everyone but two of us in the Range Rover duck. The driver, S's husband, pulls a U-turn over the embankment (he showed me what the U in SUV meant that week, between this and the Rift Valley) between lanes and jets out of the area. Me, I'm meerkatting to see if I can find where the ruckus is.
Yes, I'm an idiot. But I am the idiot who taught him basic fighting skills with his collapsible batons, and it might be the most useful lesson I ever taught, and the best remunerated I would ever be.
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 9:13:04 am PDT #6469 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
This is where I mention, houses are about $95/sq ft in my area... and lower, of course.