What's Your Current View?

[stethoscope]

Great shots; love the fair. Always slightly on the edge of going tits - groups of hormone and booze crazed teens; toddlers hopped up on sugar; loads of cash floating about; everybody overexcited.

Always loved the vibe of fair since raving days.. nice to see kids having fun, the rides hyping it all up as drum'n'bass thunders from the speakers

 

[Sweet FA]

Always loved the vibe of fair since raving days.. nice to see kids having fun, the rides hyping it all up as drum'n'bass thunders from the speakers

Have you seen That'll Be The Day?

 

[stethoscope]

Have you seen That'll Be The Day?

I haven't! I shall have to check it out!

 

[Sweet FA]

I haven't! I shall have to check it out!

very much of its time but I love it (and the sequel Stardust)

 

[cesare]

Wrights brandy snaps

The sound of "yay" from across the kitchen

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Haugesund, Norway

 

[Elpenor]

Cafe on the creek in Oare

 

[Elpenor]

 

[Saffy]

I'm sat on my bum looking at this.


My husband's gone on to the other view points. I'm drinking an Irn Bru.

 

[Chz]

I'm sat on my bum looking at this.
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My husband's gone on to the other view points. I'm drinking an Irn Bru.

I'm sure I have that photo somewhere. Skye?

 

[Saffy]

Yes, that's right.

My husband's photo.

 

[Chz]

Yes, that's right.
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My husband's photo.

I love how your brain thinks it's not level until you focus on the horizon and see that it is.

 

[mx wcfc]

Last day in Croatia. The sun is out and I have escaped to a beach bar that has a pretty decent IPA.

 

[brogdale]

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Cafe on the creek in Oare

Did you have enough time to stride out to the Shipwright's along the sea wall and then back along Fav creek into town? If not, it's a brilliant 1.5 hour walk if you're there again. My maternal great Grandfather was a brick maker (moulder) in the brickfields at Oare.

 

[brogdale]

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FAV!

 

[Elpenor]

Did you have enough time to stride out to the Shipwright's along the sea wall and then back along Fav creek into town? If not, it's a brilliant 1.5 hour walk if you're there again. My maternal great Grandfather was a brick maker (moulder) in the brickfields at Oare.

No, my Dad was in charge of the route, his partner did mention the Shipwrights arms.

On the way there we saw a sign for your namesake

Brickfields? Interesting I will need to look into that a bit more.

 

[brogdale]

No, my Dad was in charge of the route, his partner did mention the Shipwrights arms.

On the way there we saw a sign for your namesake

Brickfields? Interesting I will need to look into that a bit more.

Ah well, Shipwright's or not, hope you enjoyed Oare and Fav with your Dad and his partner. Oare and it's creek has that brilliant quality of feeling a lot further than 50 miles from London. The brickfields are long gone, (I think they mostly closed in the 1930s), but they were once one of the dominant employers of the area. The field where my Great Grandfather worked was Cremer's and it was located on the Western side of the road out of Fav/Davington towards Oare. The creek at Oare was used as the dock to load the finished bricks onto the Thames barges up to London. I annotated an old 19thC OS map extract for my fam which showed the brickfield:

 

[Elpenor]

A little earlier

 

[Rebecca Riot]

A little earlier

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That's so lovely. Can I ask where it is?

 

[Elpenor]

That's so lovely. Can I ask where it is?

Camber Sands in East Sussex

 

[Elpenor]

 

[danny la rouge]

Camber Sands in East Sussex

I was there recently!

 

[Pickman's model]

A little earlier

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looks like they've buried a couple of statues of churchill there

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Camber Sands in East Sussex

I remember going there as a child. Beautiful part of the country.

 

[spitfire]

Rainbow in 2 ways.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I was there recently!

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What if you don't fancy a swim?

 

[BassJunkie]

What if you don't fancy a swim?

Reminds me of the The Onion back in the day:

Must See TV now enforced by law.

 

[danny la rouge]

What if you don't fancy a swim?

I disobeyed the sign by not swimming. I am after all an anarchist.

 

[spitfire]

I disobeyed the sign by not swimming. I am after all an anarchist.

Hang on a minute!

That’s not what you said last week.

Is this anarchy?

 

[danny la rouge]

Hang on a minute!

That’s not what you said last week.

Is this anarchy?

I’m nothing if not inconsistent!