Category: positive thoughts

Arts Tower Views

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Another Other People’s Photos post.

It was a few (ten) days ago when I spotted some twitpics by Sheffielder @arepeejee taken while he was at the top of Sheffield University’s Arts Tower. (You may remember him from such blog posts as Better by tomorrow and What were the skies like when you were young?.)

Anyway, at the time, he promised that there would more to come from his “big camera”; and he wasn’t lying.

I love the architectural congestion in the foreground of this panorama, especially when it’s juxtaposed with the freedom of the blue sky beyond. And there are loads of other great photos to enjoy including two great panoramas here & here, some tiny trams here and what’s left of the hospital I was born in here.

All in all a bit of a tear-jerking reminder of my hometown.

Do take the time to go an persue the rest of his flickr stream.

Credit: Thanks to arepeegee for permission to use this photos.

Dafternoon

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Dafternoon (noun): The period immediately before an early evening braai during which you engage in foolish behaviour, play football in ridiculous heat, come home and drink far too much Black Label and chat with friends under the trees.

It was a great day. The football was fun, the beer was cold and the company was, as ever, entertaining.

Given the physical demands of today, tomorrow morning will almost certainly bring a world of pain. But it was worth it.

Summer’s come…

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It’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, I took the kids around the peninsular during/after the biggest storm of the winter.

Today is a million miles from that: a gentle breeze, cloudless blue skies and the promise of an even better – and hotter – day tomorrow. To celebrate that, I’ll be playing football at noon.

Will I never learn?

New Hotel for Newlands

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It looks like Newlands is going to get another hotel, in the form of a Park Inn by Radisson, if reports from hotel-industry.co.uk are to be believed.

The 122 room hotel will open its doors in early 2014 and will be situated between the railway bridge on Campground Road and the TNS Research Building; conveniently close to Cavendish, the rugby stadium and a mere 6 away from the cricket ground.
It will be a vast improvement on the muddy/dusty (delete as seasonally applicable) car parking area that is there at the moment.

One interesting point from that piece:

This development is a joint venture between Meridian Property Holdings, a Cape Town based developer, Deaf Federation of South Africa (DEAFSA), and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). DEAFSA represents some 800 000 hearing disabled members countrywide, and views the development as a key broad-based empowerment initiative in terms of income generating, skills transfer and employment opportunities for its members.

Which sounds (no pun intended) like a great idea too.

Wire Wool

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You know I like long exposure photographs. Well, I am going to try this.
I am going to try this. I am going to try this. I am going to try this.

Seriously, I am going to try this. That’s because I’ve been meaning to try this for ages (like I did with the ginger beer and that worked out ok) and now that summer is on the way, I am going to try this. Really.

I can only hope that my results are even half as good as CJ Wormwell‘s though.

Nice on white, maybe, but MUCH, MUCH BETTER ON BLACK (and then click fullscreen for the full effect).

I’m pretty sure that’s the beach in Ramsey in the Isle of Man, not that it really matters. You can see his other wire wool photos here.

And should you feel the need to have a go too, here’s a decent tutorial on how to go about it.

Photo credit: Many thanks to Chris for his permission to use his photo.