Mr Seb B.Eng. MIEE ([info]mrseb) wrote,
@ 2007-06-23 01:36:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Current mood:Bouncy, and needing to sleep soon.
Current music:Vocal Trance on di.fm.

Hever Castle
Hever Castle's a very pretty castle in Kent, near Edenbridge.

Basically, Henry VIII built it for Anne Boleyn after she whined about wanting her own castle.

So he built her a little castle, with a moat, turrets, crenelations - everything!

Man... women nowadays are much less demanding.

Oh, of course he beheaded her afterwards... but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, I was down at its lake today, just as the sun begun to set. You know those moments where the world goes totally pink, red or orange... just for an instant? Well, this was one of them. Quite a cold white balance too, to keep the blues. I quite like the symmetry too.

And I have to admit... I scared the duck from the side of the lake and shooed him a bit until he was in a compositionally-strong position. I'm such a monster: I'll do anything to get the photo!


Hever Castle Lake
Hever Castle Lake

(Post a new comment)


[info]trini_naenae
2007-06-23 01:52 am UTC (link)
She complained that she didn't have a castle? Woah, that's majorly pathetic.

It is a pretty photo.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 09:57 am UTC (link)
In the olden days, if you didn't have a castle, you were a nobody.

By the same logic, I'd love a castle nowadays.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]trini_naenae
2007-06-23 02:26 pm UTC (link)
She was married to the friggin' king! How is that not somebody enough?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 02:27 pm UTC (link)
Henry went through wives like he went through underwear!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]trini_naenae
2007-06-23 02:31 pm UTC (link)
Very true. But wasn't she wife number two or three? That's got to count for something.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]serotonintonic
2007-06-23 05:58 am UTC (link)
I don't really need a castle, but I'll take the duck, please.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 09:56 am UTC (link)
The duck comes with the 6'5" hairy and virile monster, and the castle.

You can't have 1 without the other. erribly sorry.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]serotonintonic
2007-06-24 07:26 am UTC (link)
Is there talking furniture, too?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-25 01:21 pm UTC (link)
Did you know that Beauty & The Beast is one of my favourite musicals?

The first 30 minutes or so (Belle's introduction, and then the reprise) is one of my favourite musical scenes of all time!

The 'Something There' -> 'Beauty And The Beast' section is also quite beautiful.

But anyway... No, no talking furniture I'm afraid. You'd have to put up with me as the only source of conversation. Orrible, I know.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 09:56 am UTC (link)
... Terribly, not Erribly.

Why can't you edit replies on LJ...?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]lezek
2007-06-23 01:12 pm UTC (link)
To cause embarrassment.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]trini_naenae
2007-06-23 02:27 pm UTC (link)
*claps*

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]sparklylights
2007-06-23 07:25 am UTC (link)
That is really beautiful!
and you are right, the duck adds that certain something...

(Reply to this)

Hever
(Anonymous)
2007-06-23 09:42 am UTC (link)
Perfect picture and you can really tell the duck was scared of you!

Just one tiny correction please.... Hever Castle was built by William de Hever around 1270 and the added house was built by Anne Boleyn's great grandfather around 1465.... then the Astor's added another 100 rooms at the beginning of the 1900's.... here endeth the lesson! You should know better....rho

(Reply to this) (Thread)
Re: Hever
[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 09:54 am UTC (link)
I prefered my far more romantic view of history!

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]lezek
2007-06-23 01:13 pm UTC (link)
You're terribly fond of dark photos...

I like the water.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 01:29 pm UTC (link)
It's not dark! Just high-contrast... And people don't have properly calibrated displays...!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]lezek
2007-06-23 01:39 pm UTC (link)
OK, my bad. My monitor seems to have got a bit darker over the years.

Brilliantly, it only has three gamma settings: too dark, washed out, and way too dark. Makes me wonder why they bothered including a setting at all, since such functions are better placed on the graphics card, and pretty much every card made in the last 10 years can do a better job of it.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]lezek
2007-06-23 01:42 pm UTC (link)
BTW, how did you scare the duck? Stand on the bank and shout "WOOOB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB!"?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-23 01:45 pm UTC (link)
No... I just kind of approached it mennacingly.

It's amazing how well the tall, dark, hairy and malicious-looking stereotype crosses over into the animal kingdom.

I am universally feared :(

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]lezek
2007-06-23 02:09 pm UTC (link)
Haha, universally feared?! You're a big cuddly teddy bear! :P

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]loopz
2007-06-24 09:24 pm UTC (link)
Isn't he just....is anyone really afraid of mrseb?! He's just a big bundle of fur, not hair! :~)

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-24 10:48 pm UTC (link)
I can be quite angry and scary sometimes...

And it's definitely hair, not fur!

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]katethegeek
2007-06-23 10:27 pm UTC (link)
i went to hever castle many moons ago with an ex, his sister and dad.

his sister and i were stood gawping out and saw a women dash past dressed in a stunning old dress. upon asking if there were anymore actors about that day we were informed that none were appearing.
my very first 'ghost' sighting.
then we had icecream.



so there you have it.

(Reply to this)


[info]loopz
2007-06-24 05:19 pm UTC (link)
Very pretty picture, I like! :)
I want a castle too, but nobody has bought me one as of yet *sulks* Is it too much to ask?!

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-24 05:25 pm UTC (link)
I'll buy you one, on the proviso that I get to execute you shortly after and reclaim it as my own possession.

Deal?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]loopz
2007-06-24 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Let me think about that for a second...uh, how about no?!
How about you buy me a castle, let me have it, but still keep the deeds so that it is still your possession? You can be on the paper but I will have it until I am bored of it? Sounds good to me :D

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-24 05:34 pm UTC (link)
Let me think about that for a second... uh, how about no?!

James has a large house... You could get a turret added onto that or something... some plastic crenelations...

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]loopz
2007-06-24 09:23 pm UTC (link)
Ooooooh, that's a good idea.
I've already told him I want us to be left the house when his parents die....he wasn't too happy with that thought of mine though.
Maybe I could get them to buy me a castle in exchange for grandchildren....do you think bargaining works in this day and age?

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]lezek
2007-06-24 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Is that offer transferrable?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-24 10:34 pm UTC (link)
If you look good in a corset.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]lezek
2007-06-25 08:48 am UTC (link)
Not as good as I look out of one.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]entrammelled
2007-06-24 10:33 pm UTC (link)
I'm sure I used t ogo there when I was little! not been back to kent for months :/

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-24 10:50 pm UTC (link)
I think Hever's the only real location I've visited in Kent more than once.

My grandmother works as a guide there, so I've been to Hever Castle almost every year since I've been old enough to remember!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]sparklylights
2007-06-25 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Once, when you were in your buggy, we went there and it was so early that no one else was there, so we walked around the Italian Garden and it was like we owned it, I remember that as it was very special!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]mrseb
2007-06-25 02:31 pm UTC (link)
One day mum... one day, we will!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

(Anonymous)
2007-06-26 09:00 pm UTC (link)
That really makes me happy! Do you promise??

(Reply to this) (Parent)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…