17012010

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08012010

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21122009

Yesterday 20122009

- Asked my parents to explain the history of Northern Ireland after watching the beginning of ‘Hunger’

- Didn’t make much progress with jigsaw

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20122009

Yesterday 19122009

1. Came home for Christmas.

2. Visited another garden centre and refound zebra finches.

3. Started a jigsaw puzzle.

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06122009

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03122009

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23102009

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Yesterday Neil and I went to the Pineapple house near Falkirk, my auntie uncle and cousin had hired it out for the October week. The dome was built in 17 something by the 6th Earl of Dunmore who was apparently the first person in Scotland to grow pineapples.  In the afternoon we went on a walk and saw an abandoned tower while strewn empty coffins inside. I didn’t like it. When we came back  I played a game called Hopla with my cousin. I’d never heard of it. At the time I felt inspired by the day but this morning I couldn’t remember specifically why.

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19102009

Kevin McClouds Grand Tour and Zebra Finches

 

 

Of simple grandeur and an impressive nature.

 I will describe them to fit my experience, not by being there or seeing them in their natural environment but by watching tv and looking up photos of the net.

 

  In fact I had been to some of these places but I had looked briefly, overwhelmed by the crowds, heat and a want for Fanta Lemon. And I have seen them but in a cage in a strange garden centre. £14.50 a pair. 1

 Grand Tour notes

 

Hedonistic young aristocrats

 

Assaults the senses

Transform arrogance to the men who inspired the architecture of today.

Christopher Wren – capture unbritishness

 

Defies Gods laws of gravity

Unchanged for 500 years

 

Had their secrets that they want to keep to themselves. Methods weren’t fully discovered for 400 years.

Peep hole through

 

Bread melon water and wine.4

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14102009

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13102009

behind a door that seemed as though it

wouldn’t open.dark inside, unwelcoming

it seemed as though it had just been a small

room. Through to Pets.

to face with a cage of budgies and to a

parrot room. as a hospital, radio

echoing, lined with cages, woops high

and one really low, voice.

on leaving eye a rabbit the same breed as

Sooty. Mouse, chincilla, rats gnawing at the

right point, no hamsters. A lizard,

and then in egg cups in tupperware live

feed ‘ shop store’

Back where we started beside budgies, pink

parakeetsand beside them finches. Zebra

finches? but there wasn’t a sign.

an unventured doorway as we are about to

exit. What I was expecting to see. Rows of

tanks number a1, a2, the ones I had, ones

I hadn’t thought of. While squeezing

out my eye directed down. and on the mat

a floundered body.

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