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Sep. 19th, 2006 02:54 pmI like LJ Talking Like A Pirate- ahoy there, mateylist.
Found the first conker of autumn yesterday, walking around the lake at Nottingham University, with lovely dead-leaf smells and beechnuts crunching underfoot, but the trees actually still mostly green. Saw a heron, ducks, coots, many squirrels, a rat (alas) and possibly a water vole, it jumped in too fast to tell. Did you know they've got caves on campus?? Also excellent steep sandstone slopes with gnarled roots clinging to them. And rolling landscaped bits. And nice old buildings (science, as ever, is in the grotty 60s ones).
I didn't have time to go into the city centre, which was a shame, but I had to get the train because I was going to the RSC's Canterbury Tales in the evening (Part 1), which were excellent. Smashing cast. They've done nearly all of them- the chivalric and the frankly racist ones as well as the bawdy (you know Bill Bailey's chaucerian anecdote, "these two blokes wente into a pubbe..."? I reckon GC would have really appreciated it)- anyway, really well dramatised, funny bits, gripping bits...
Off to the galley for me rations now, arr.
Found the first conker of autumn yesterday, walking around the lake at Nottingham University, with lovely dead-leaf smells and beechnuts crunching underfoot, but the trees actually still mostly green. Saw a heron, ducks, coots, many squirrels, a rat (alas) and possibly a water vole, it jumped in too fast to tell. Did you know they've got caves on campus?? Also excellent steep sandstone slopes with gnarled roots clinging to them. And rolling landscaped bits. And nice old buildings (science, as ever, is in the grotty 60s ones).
I didn't have time to go into the city centre, which was a shame, but I had to get the train because I was going to the RSC's Canterbury Tales in the evening (Part 1), which were excellent. Smashing cast. They've done nearly all of them- the chivalric and the frankly racist ones as well as the bawdy (you know Bill Bailey's chaucerian anecdote, "these two blokes wente into a pubbe..."? I reckon GC would have really appreciated it)- anyway, really well dramatised, funny bits, gripping bits...
Off to the galley for me rations now, arr.
