randomness
Sep. 10th, 2010 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaSo I caught up on almost 3 seasons of Leverage in about as many weeks, just in time for the show to go on hiatus for 3 months. Seems an odd sort of place to break for hiatus, 13 out of 16 episodes, but who am I to judge!
Still. There's new New Tricks tonight - hooray! And then there's new Merlin, and then in a couple of weeks there's new Supernatural and also new Grey's Anatomy (back on my viewing schedule after a couple of seasons off). Oh my shows, how I have missed you!
The other day I think I mentioned taking a trip to Dyffryn Gardens over the bank holiday. I hadn't been there for a while (although ended up going again just two days later for a candlelight evening stroll in aid of Marie Curie) and it was an absolutely glorious day, so, inevitably enough, I took a bunch of pictures.
Just so you know, Dyffryn is an old manor house set in the middle of beautiful Grade 1 registered Edwardian gardens and arboretum - it's got the works, from formal lawns (including a croquet pitch!) to intimate (and elaborately designed) little garden rooms, all currently in the midst of a lengthy restoration process, taking the gardens back to the original masterplan designed for coal magnate John Cory back in 1906.
This is the house, front and back.
It's a beautiful building, but has never been open to the public - it used to be hired out for conferences and the like, but even that has ceased now and the building lies empty. There is some much-needed restoration work going on, though, and I really hope that one day it will be opened up to the public, because peering through the window reveals some gorgeous fireplaces, statues and fittings! I want a closer look!
The gardens, though, are the main attraction at Dyffryn.
There are all kinds of little nooks and crannies dotted about the place
Up under the eaves of the education centre, we spotted quite a number of house martin nests - some even with teeny little birds poking their heads out to watch us pass
There were butterflies everywhere
And if you've ever wondered where all the honeybees have gone, they are all on this flowerbed!
Never seen so many bees in one place, short of a hive somewhere in the offing, in my life!
In Other News:
And finally, there's been a lot of rumpus lately over LJ's new cross-posting facility. I would hope that it goes without saying, but it's worth saying anyway: please guys, no cross-posting from my journal to either Facebook or Twitter, thanks.
Still. There's new New Tricks tonight - hooray! And then there's new Merlin, and then in a couple of weeks there's new Supernatural and also new Grey's Anatomy (back on my viewing schedule after a couple of seasons off). Oh my shows, how I have missed you!
The other day I think I mentioned taking a trip to Dyffryn Gardens over the bank holiday. I hadn't been there for a while (although ended up going again just two days later for a candlelight evening stroll in aid of Marie Curie) and it was an absolutely glorious day, so, inevitably enough, I took a bunch of pictures.
Just so you know, Dyffryn is an old manor house set in the middle of beautiful Grade 1 registered Edwardian gardens and arboretum - it's got the works, from formal lawns (including a croquet pitch!) to intimate (and elaborately designed) little garden rooms, all currently in the midst of a lengthy restoration process, taking the gardens back to the original masterplan designed for coal magnate John Cory back in 1906.
This is the house, front and back.
It's a beautiful building, but has never been open to the public - it used to be hired out for conferences and the like, but even that has ceased now and the building lies empty. There is some much-needed restoration work going on, though, and I really hope that one day it will be opened up to the public, because peering through the window reveals some gorgeous fireplaces, statues and fittings! I want a closer look!
The gardens, though, are the main attraction at Dyffryn.
There are all kinds of little nooks and crannies dotted about the place
Up under the eaves of the education centre, we spotted quite a number of house martin nests - some even with teeny little birds poking their heads out to watch us pass
There were butterflies everywhere
And if you've ever wondered where all the honeybees have gone, they are all on this flowerbed!
Never seen so many bees in one place, short of a hive somewhere in the offing, in my life!
In Other News:
And finally, there's been a lot of rumpus lately over LJ's new cross-posting facility. I would hope that it goes without saying, but it's worth saying anyway: please guys, no cross-posting from my journal to either Facebook or Twitter, thanks.
