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In Which I Am Indecisive
Okay. I'm on leave from 16th April until 5th May (Friday is our anniversary, then I have two weeks off followed by a fortuitous bank holiday and some training - woo!) and Paul is also off from 16th to 21st April, though he'll probably be working on the Saturday. Aside from spring cleaning the kitchen it would be rather nice to go for a day out somewhere with the camera, weather permitting. I have a number of places we COULD go which are fairly easy to get to by bus, I just can't decide where. :)
[Poll #1550381]PS: Anything Netherton/Dudley/Black Country end we might be able to get two things in one day. The least easy to get to is the Claypit because it'll involve three buses and I think they might not be that regular, but haven't checke dyet.. IIRC they've now split up the Zoo and Castle at Dudley, but the website still only quotes one price for admission, so I guess we'll have to do the Zoo as well if that's the option. Neither of us have been to BCLM for years, ditto the Botanical Gardens, and I kind of want to visit the Claypit to relive my childhood...
I can has votes plz?
[Poll #1550381]PS: Anything Netherton/Dudley/Black Country end we might be able to get two things in one day. The least easy to get to is the Claypit because it'll involve three buses and I think they might not be that regular, but haven't checke dyet.. IIRC they've now split up the Zoo and Castle at Dudley, but the website still only quotes one price for admission, so I guess we'll have to do the Zoo as well if that's the option. Neither of us have been to BCLM for years, ditto the Botanical Gardens, and I kind of want to visit the Claypit to relive my childhood...
I can has votes plz?
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The year is slipping by- shall we try and arrange a date for you to come to Oxford for the day?
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Yes to Oxford. Still a bit skint at the moment (hence the poll for local places!) so I shall provisionally say maybe June? I know I keep moving it, but my money keeps going the same place as the months, apparently...
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...and also for the claypit, 'cause you seemed to wanna go there. I'm not entirely sure whether they're both doable on the same day, so take it as an either/or vote.
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Not sure they are doable in the same day, but neither are going anywhere. :)
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...and, assuming the Claypit is, y'know, an actual claypit (I'm sure we've had this convesation, but you know what my memory is like!), I can't see that upping and walking away either
though it'd be funny if it did. So I suppose it just boils down to what you feel more enthused about when the day comes.no subject
I think it'll just be dependent on the weather. According to my mum, Black Country Museum has more stuff now than it did in t'olden days of mine and Paul's childhood, so that is also a viable option. :) Er, hence the confusion, obviously.
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I'm vaguely curious as to what the Black Country Museum entails, actually... there aren't that many corners of the country (Big Cities notwithstanding) that have enough stuff to require their own museum...
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...would you smack me and call me an ignorant Southerner if I said that description makes me picture a surreal museumish lovechild of the Model Village and the canal trip in Phantom of the Opera?
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They're not model houses, they're full-sized houses. :P I think some of them were there already but I do remember a couple of school trips where we were always told how the buildings were moved brick by brick to the site in order to preserve the heritage...
The underground canal trip was really cool, actually. There's a massive network of underground canal tunnels beneath the Black Country. They sent Yvette into one in an early Most Haunted (their first live show, IIRC, which was at Dudley Castle) because they're also meant to be haunted...
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Moving a house brick-by-brick, though? Isn't there a risk there of, I dunno, some bricks not making it in one piece? Or being put into the wrong place? Or... something!? It sounds impressive, though, but... odd. Though I'm sure that's just my southern "we don't have any heritage worth preserving"-ness showing through. ;)
This wasn't one of the MH episodes you made me watch, is it? I'm sure the one with the jaunty hat involved an underground something...
...and now, of course, you're going to tell me that they all involve underground somethings at some point or another, aren't you?
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Er, no. That would be the one on the, er, London Underground. :P
Bizarrely, they haven't gone underground that much. A few tunnels / hidden passageways / basements occasionally, but not much in the way of undergroundness otherwise.
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The London Underground. Of course it was. Excuse me while I go bash my head against the wall. :P
And yea, I find it puzzling that there's not much undergrounding (would it be counted as spelunking if it's in a city?) in MH; you'd think the long-buried places would be perfect for paranormal activity. All quiet like and no numbering and moving of bricks to disturb the restless spirits...
Also, so as not to begin another thread, ROFL @ your answer to the OTP question on the icon meme. So much ROFL. Suddenly, I'm very glad I don't have multifandom icons at the moment.