Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Hen party recovery + statues

Hi there,

I think I hid it well but I was less than 90% yesterday, probably closer to 50%.
I couldn't even finish that frigging Easter egg as I felt so sick and stuffed to the back teeth with chips, 10" magarita pizzas and booze, including, but not limited to: port, lager, woo woos and white wine.

Yonks ago when booking the hen do I mentioned that I paid for rooms, dinner reservations, etc. I was being a doubting Thomas that the girls would all pay, but they did, so thanks lovely fellow hens.

Breakfast yesterday after the finale of the hen party was a gastronomic highlight of the weekend. It is also a great snapshot of my (un-)balanced diet over the weekend.

Sausage bap, apple juice and a custard slice. The coffee in the picture is not mine. Not putting dehydrating caffeine into my body, no siree. 

Sorry for the picture of yellow and brown food AKA fat blob foods. 
To refresh your eyes, here are a couple of nice statue objects from Blackpool on Friday with the lovely blue sky in the background. Love that blue.

Does it not look totem-esque, with an eagle head at the top?
Due to its rust colour, I thought it was some type of industrial art. Getting up close to it, we could hear some weird, ghostly groans. Actually, it was the musical tones produced by the Blackpool High Tide Organ. If I remember correctly, they were all in the Bflat scale (I think) which is a naturally occurring sound. 

The sounds are produced by 8 pipes that run from the sea wall up to 18 pipes in the statue. The water in the high tide pushes air into the pipes and voila!

I saved this photo as shuttlecock statues. I have since found they are supposed to represent dune grass as Blackpool was built on sand dunes. 

They were replaced with a sea wall at Victorian times and this sea wall has now been replaced by modern coastal defenses, which is when these statues were placed on the promenade. 

These dune grass statues sway in the wind. They make the most of the abundant sea breeze, the swaying is so relaxing. Nice. Oh to have been in a hammock swaying myself while looking up. Nicer.

Sunny L xx






 


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