24-hour photo challenge, with your guest presenter, easterbunny

[hirez]

Or something like that.

I was challenged with '4 x the illustrated Betjeman', which was rather good fun.

We begin with the poem 'Bristol', which contains the verse

Ringers in an oil-lit belfry - Bitton? Kelston? who shall say? -
Smoothly practicing a plain course, caverned out the dying day
As their melancholy music flooded up and ebbed away.




'In a Bath Teashop'. Obviously.



After that, things became a bit random.

'How to get on in society' begins like this:

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.


... and carries on in similarly splendid vein. I don't keep fish-knives, a cruet or a bog-cosy, but I know a shop that does. Probably.



Finally, this:



Guess. Go on.

Comments

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

>> with your guest presenter, easterbunny

With cameo appearance by Neasden Postlethwaite?

This is brilliant.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes.

You may imagine them on a sofa, exchanging scripted banter and dreaming of a move to a Fox affiliate somewhere up-state.

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

A Fox affiliate? I don't get out of bed for anything less than the Weather Channel.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It was the first thing that came into my head, after WGN-TV.

(I have to admit that I watched an awful lot of Weather Channel when feverish. I miss it.)

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

I miss the Weather Channel, too. We got rid of cable TV last month, and the wishy washy News Channel 4 Weather Radar channel is a pale substitute. On the plus side, I can stalk Jim Cantore via weather.com's video vault, including the thunder snow (http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=365&collection=topstory&from=hp_news) moment of legend and lore. That's a meteorologist who knows his way around a parka.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

NO CABLE?

What a terifying idea.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Egads! The pic of the churchyard is fabooooooooooo!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It did come out rather well, didn't it? Nat bad for a phonecam + the barest of tweaking with The Gimp.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Phonecam??? I think you must have some magical skills you've been holding back on.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Good luck, more than anything else; once in a while, 'auto equalise' will pull all sorts of detail from a badly exposed shot. Also right place at right time.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

I still think you're magical. :)

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Splendid.

The first photo is gorgeous, but with the cross-continental tyranny of overly specific cutlery, my favorite is the one with the fish knives. Have you had a Sally Lunn bun?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's all your fault, of course.

Bath is heaving due to the Christmas Market. Since that and yon tea-shoppe are both in the shadow of the abbey, it was packed with frenzied shoppers.

It's not a bad place, but I wish the sodding tourists would piss off.

[deviblue.livejournal.com]

Ah so thats why nothing is right for me atm...I don't have any waitrose beans...cos they're like, essential and stuff.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Without an Essential Selection, it all goes a bit Pete Tong...

(Thank you. We're here all week.)