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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 8, 2016 11:23:25 GMT
Ask and ye shall receive
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Post by KaTune on Aug 8, 2016 11:31:30 GMT
OMG! You actually met Mads!! Super jealous!!! You are beautiful too btw
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Post by KaTune on Aug 8, 2016 11:45:11 GMT
That is just breathtaking sweetie! Oh how I long to visit a beach! The serene surrender to the sounds of crashing waves in a sea of tranquility ♡
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Post by Olly on Aug 8, 2016 13:15:37 GMT
The views from the caravan I'm staying in, in Dorset! Bit jealous! I miss Dorset.
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Post by james on Aug 8, 2016 15:01:24 GMT
It was really good seeing around the waterfall area. Nice place to adventure. Are you often out early or was the sunrise the end of your day?
Since I no longer live where I mostly grew up and the house was sold I don't really feel 'at home' anywhere, not that I did there, but you can't help feeling the places you played as a kid were home. So 'home' is wherever I live, and mostly I feel at home in nature or graveyards. (The house I grew up in backed on to an ancient graveyard so I played in that a lot) hiding in trees/shrubs, handstands on gravestones, climbing on the church roof, finding bones. So that's what I wanna do when I'm in a graveyard, but I have to just imagine it now, because apparently it looks disrespectful.
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Post by james on Aug 8, 2016 15:29:25 GMT
Ok so this isn't where I live now but where I mainly grew up. I went and moved back there for a few years before my mum moved away. This was the view outside the back garden. Over the wall. In the churchyard. And a bit of the overgrown front garden. Recently I was living here a couple of years ago. Southend, Londons seaside escape. The town was more rough and dismal than the nice spot of this photo outside the town lets on. I'll find something to add of where I live now later.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 8, 2016 16:02:04 GMT
What's the building you're in there towards the end, James? Is it something deserted?
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Post by james on Aug 8, 2016 16:20:41 GMT
Yeah, there are bunches of Victorian shelters looking out to the sea, with broken windows and drink cans in them. Actually a lot of Southend has had millions of pounds in ongoing development. I actually miss living there. The easy commute into London was good. But the only way to afford it would to find some folk to do a house-share with as its a bit expensive as are most surrounding London Towns. This is on the roof of that shelter.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 8, 2016 16:25:03 GMT
That's cool. I'd love a bit of urban exploring.... I was gutted to find out there's been an abandoned mental hospital nearby for decades that I didn't find out about until they started knocking it down.
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Post by james on Aug 8, 2016 16:40:35 GMT
I had an after school job doing domestic cleaning/porter stuff in one of the last Victorian mental hospitals. Back when I was 18. Great massive building. It closed when I was there and they were moved to a more modern mental health development, but I still had a key and went back and the deserted corridors and wards were proper horror story scenery. It's all developed housing now. The whole area is like a modern village in nice grounds now.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Aug 8, 2016 17:04:31 GMT
Yeah I'm sure I would have chickened out if I actually had the chance to go explore one lol. I remember just being in my high school a few times when the halls were empty was scary enough.
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Post by KaTune on Aug 8, 2016 17:04:54 GMT
Super beautiful pictures James. I love the one where you are a zen garden gnome and the one Paul mentioned is just stunning Thank you so much for sharing.
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Post by james on Aug 8, 2016 17:38:28 GMT
Those seaside shelters. I expect they were built at a time when the sea air was a cure all. People would leave the London industrial smog of the late 1800's early 20th century even in winter and just sit in numbers. In winter there the beaches are so empty, one of the nicest walks in cold mist. In summer now they are just full up of horrible wibbly human bodies so you can't appreciate the scenery in summer. No Sunday best outfits and parasols, beer bellies and burps instead.
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Post by KaTune on Aug 8, 2016 17:50:11 GMT
Living near the graveyard musta been pretty cool too. I had a bud that lived right across the street from an old (well old for America) graveyard. We would rent horror Flix and go hang out there afterword. Tell spooky stories and play hide and seek. Good times
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