Yay for castles!
Mar. 27th, 2006 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fluffymarkYay! Today I had the pleasure of visiting the lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mirabehn and evil_nick at their shiny little new nest in Datchet. But before I got to Datchet, I was distracted by something else. Most of you would know by know that I’m a bit of a castlephile, and it didn’t escape my notice that there is a HUGE ROYAL CASTLE just over the river from Datchet. The biggest of all in fact, and I’d not ever been there before. Shocking. So this morning I braved all the Russian tourists, and had a lovely wander around Windsor Castle. It’s not at all cheap, but it is The Pretty. Big proper castle-like walls, like castles are supposed to have. Mmmmmmmmmm crenellations *drool*. Ahem. All the flowers had just come out, as they’ve finally noticed it is now Spring, so the whole mound around the Round Tower was covered in pretty aromatic flowers. And lots of pretties inside too. Yay! Sadly chapel closed (as is Sunday) so I’d have to go back there to see that. But I really want to go back there, as it’s so nice there. Yay!
Then a lovely walk to Datchet, andmirabehn and evil_nick are both as lovely as ever. We discussed fun plans for Ardgour (which I am now looking forward to immensely!), and watched some Firefly and Yes Minister. Then we put on the Haibane Renmei soundtrack and played LOTR monopoly, always a splendid source of innuendo goodness. My Legolas was doing awful at first, and Elly was doing too well as she got lots of horsies and pimped them out. So me and Nick ganged up on her, and somehow I emerged to build huge fortresses all over Rohan and strangely ended up winning! Yay. I had bizarre banana flavoured beer, which was very nice, and Elly cooked lovely food and knows how to make me very happy as there was also yummy chocolate icecream. My plan is to visit them lots now, as they are both very nice indeed! *happybounces*
Ooopsie! Just re-read all that, and it's all too mindnumbingly enthusiastic. I seem to be stuck on the word "nice" rather a lot, don't I? I really must be having a good day! Dearie me :)
mirabehn and evil_nick at their shiny little new nest in Datchet. But before I got to Datchet, I was distracted by something else. Most of you would know by know that I’m a bit of a castlephile, and it didn’t escape my notice that there is a HUGE ROYAL CASTLE just over the river from Datchet. The biggest of all in fact, and I’d not ever been there before. Shocking. So this morning I braved all the Russian tourists, and had a lovely wander around Windsor Castle. It’s not at all cheap, but it is The Pretty. Big proper castle-like walls, like castles are supposed to have. Mmmmmmmmmm crenellations *drool*. Ahem. All the flowers had just come out, as they’ve finally noticed it is now Spring, so the whole mound around the Round Tower was covered in pretty aromatic flowers. And lots of pretties inside too. Yay! Sadly chapel closed (as is Sunday) so I’d have to go back there to see that. But I really want to go back there, as it’s so nice there. Yay!Then a lovely walk to Datchet, and
mirabehn and evil_nick are both as lovely as ever. We discussed fun plans for Ardgour (which I am now looking forward to immensely!), and watched some Firefly and Yes Minister. Then we put on the Haibane Renmei soundtrack and played LOTR monopoly, always a splendid source of innuendo goodness. My Legolas was doing awful at first, and Elly was doing too well as she got lots of horsies and pimped them out. So me and Nick ganged up on her, and somehow I emerged to build huge fortresses all over Rohan and strangely ended up winning! Yay. I had bizarre banana flavoured beer, which was very nice, and Elly cooked lovely food and knows how to make me very happy as there was also yummy chocolate icecream. My plan is to visit them lots now, as they are both very nice indeed! *happybounces*Ooopsie! Just re-read all that, and it's all too mindnumbingly enthusiastic. I seem to be stuck on the word "nice" rather a lot, don't I? I really must be having a good day! Dearie me :)
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Date: 2006-03-26 11:27 pm (UTC)...
Actually you may be right.
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Date: 2006-03-26 11:35 pm (UTC)My brain is already half asleep. Not used to getting up that early in the morning. Someone stole an hour from me last night , and I was kept awake by horrible nightmares (every little noise in the night my imagination put down to some dragon-like demon creature trying to get into my bedroom. I was a gibbering heap at the slightest creak. I even peered outside of the curtains to try and spot it lurking outside. Meep!), so my brain isn't really functioning right now.
Maybe I should go to bed.
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Date: 2006-03-27 01:04 pm (UTC)Glad you had a
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Date: 2006-03-30 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-30 12:42 pm (UTC)Presumably you've seen Penrhyn Castle? I think that's probably my favourite, though I've not visited it for a few years.
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Date: 2006-03-30 10:09 pm (UTC)I think I must have been to Penrhyn castle. When I was a LOT smaller I got taken to North Wales on a few occastions, and saw many castles, but it was so long ago they all blur into one so I can't single out Penrhyn. I'll keep it in mind anytime I'm in that area again. :)
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Date: 2006-04-01 09:42 am (UTC)Yay, it was so nice to see you! *loves*
My plan is to visit them lots now, as they are both very nice indeed! *happybounces*
Good. I should think so too. :-)