What the Butler saw

[steepholm]

I've finally figured out how to get photos off my mobile phone, after some years of intending to do so. The answer, it turns out, is a Bluetooth adaptor, which took a bit of setting up but is now transferring files like a good'un.

I won't be challenging lamentables for any photography prizes, mind, but

How to take the magic out of Aquae Sulis, by means of a sans serif font. I'm so making an LJ icon out of this!



The Druid's Arms at Stanton Drew (note that reference, Susan Cooper fans!) is possibly the only pub garden in the world to boast its own set of neolithic stones. It's only just outside Bristol, the circle there is almost as big as Avebury, and yet how many people even know about it?



More Stantonism...



and a little bit of Drewhood - with lady_schrapnell giving a sense of scale.



Rain, Steam and Stasis on the Great Western Railway.



Dressed for action at the Mary Rose experience in Portsmouth.



In Caerleon, Catherine Fisher poses next to an upturned oak - one of the inspirations for Darkhenge.



And finally, in Redland a starving police horse makes a desperate attempt to eat one of his colleagues...

Comments

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Those are really good! Hard to believe they were taken on a camera!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Those are nifty! I can't get over that intense green.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

lady_schrapnell and I often wish we could bottle it and send you some!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

mmmm and rain along with it...

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

Is that where Susan Cooper got Drew and Stanton from?! That stone circle is amazing, the combination of the circle and the beer garden is one of the things I'm enjoying most about the UK, I love how all of this history is layered together.

We're going to Bath next weekend! Shall keep my eyes averted from sans serif signs.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Is that where Susan Cooper got Drew and Stanton from?!

When I wrote her my first, tentative fan letter (circa 1984) I asked her exactly that. It did seem likely, what with the stone circle, though I hadn't then been to Stanton Drew myself. She replied that she couldn't remember, but that in general she followed J B Priestley's example of taking names out of gazeteers, so I suppose it's possible in a roundabout way.

She herself has never been to Stanton Drew, however. Many years later she came to visit me for the day, and I was determined to get her out there - but the clock just beat us (we settled for a trip round the harbour instead).