Two pictures from our flying visit of yesterday.Picture 1 is Cineworld (a haunt of ours) which is where the Forman building used to be. The Forman building housed The Evening Post and was beautiful stone which unfortunately had to be demolished to allow this complex. To be fair, as modern buildings often are, this looks attractive to us and certainly doesn't disgrace the town. When it is all lit up at night it looks good.
The building the black car is driving round is The Theatre Royal and The Royal Concert Hall is further round the corner on the same side. This is where the tram is so handy for us. The theatre-square stop is about 70 yards off picture left and we can do 'play', concert' or 'pictures' without having to park a car or walk more than a few yards.
Picture 2 is 'The Bell' just off Old Market Square and some readers may recall a mention, after we had the National Trust talk abouty The Castle. The pub is alleged to be older than 'The Trip to Jerusalem' which has always claimed the 'oldest Inn in the country' title. The Bell has always been a good pub, with good beer and good food, and live jazz at the weekends.A few yards up to the right is Bromley House Subscription Library which we both love and where Y gets books. The stairs are an off-put for me. Lovely stairs though, recently restored and to which we donated the price of a baluster. Just the one!
This morning we decided we must go sick-visiting because Joan is really suffering. She has had this cold for about 3 weeks and she can't move it off her chest. Rambling on Hadrian's Wall and sleeping in a rambler's bunk-house in January perhaps wasn't such a good idea. And poor Jill still suffering, condition untouched by Buttercup Syrup. By the way, our anonymous 'commenter' who advised Jill about the ceefax route to subtitles was in fact none other than our own Bungus who had forgotten to sign-off properly. And we thought we had acquired a new, intelligent, reader!
This afternoon was spent downloading some of Y's favourite CD's onto the computer, for onward transmission to her new MP3 player, which we would like to have up-and-running for our N.Wales holiday, which we are looking forward to excitedly (that may well be a 'split-infinitive' but I've forgotten what they look like).
Dame Helen Mirren did very well in the BAFTAs and won two golden globes. Strangely enough both were 'Queen roles'. The TV drama Elizabeth 1 and Elizabeth 2 in the film. Both thoroughly well deserved.
Evening meal I did griddled chicken (we like the tram-lines on the the pieces), mashed potatoes, griddled courgettes, carrots and brussels. The brussels seem excellent this year, and we lke to eat seasonal food whenever although it isn't an item of faith.
.... Y will have her MP3 player on stream by tomorrow. Which is bytheway, the first day of our WEA -Venice course at the New Mechanics. Must get there early to 'cogs' the best seats.
It must be along time since I visited Nottingham. I have seen neither of the new buildings on Picture 1 (it is 2 buildings?). They enliven the street scene and I am sure they look good at night, as does the Royal Concert Hall. But I am still uneasy about post-modernism which so often seems, to me, to bear false witness (ie, an assumed face which does not express what is really going on behind it). But at least, I suppose, it is not bland.
ReplyDeleteNor is The Bell but I preferred it in cream!
Referring to my second ‘unsigned’ Monday blog comment, you say “… we thought we had acquired a new, intelligent, reader!”.
I am sure you will have realised by now that you accidentally omitted the word ‘equally’ from between ‘new’ and ‘intelligent’.
Incidentally, anyone unfamiliar with TV subtitles should beware live broadcasts (eg, The News, Match of the Day) where there is a disorientating delay of several seconds between the spoken and written word. There is also the Chinese Whispers effect (’pair of shoes’ for ‘parachutes’, ‘I see gold’ for ’icy cold’, etc)
'Chinese Whispers' actually sounds like fun, especially if the prog. is not much good....
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Ceefax info - I could not have told you off the top of my head how to get sub-titles but I had it written down in my little purple book - I write all sorts of things down there, mostly computer tips (some from our own dear Graham). Oh, the fun I have had on wet afternoons, trying to decipher what I have written, and then what in h--- it refers to.....
Cough is slowly subsiding, takes about 3 weeks usually - but no longer keeping me awake at nights, great improvement. Your friend Joan seems to have something similar ? Only she sounds to be poorly, I feel OK and am out and about, think I just tire more easily. Thank you for asking....