Logs for NIBBO
07-Jun-08
Late afternoon visit,muggles doing various activities, away from the Saturday Motorcycle racing in Castletown.
I am afraid that the "dyke in question is a bit large for this bear to plug.
TFTC NLTS
Cheers, NIBBO
I am afraid that the "dyke in question is a bit large for this bear to plug.
TFTC NLTS
Cheers, NIBBO
03-Jun-08
Having found the general location, Gps’s were going around in circles. Solution . go for a cup of tea. Cache found by Cushag as she was asked to leave the grounds as smoking is not permitted on the lawn outside of the Conservatory, banished to a neural area – the car park. From there located the correct position of the cache, still a bit of a stretch.
Took: TT 2006 pin badge.
Left; Yellow hippo with red heart key ring
Discovered Colorado geocoin.
Fourth visitor today.
One of Titans offspring has two horns developing whilst the other has three. The Old Man himself was keeping cool in the shade.
TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
Took: TT 2006 pin badge.
Left; Yellow hippo with red heart key ring
Discovered Colorado geocoin.
Fourth visitor today.
One of Titans offspring has two horns developing whilst the other has three. The Old Man himself was keeping cool in the shade.
TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
13-Feb-05
William Blake born 28th November 1757, died 12th August 1827
English poet, painter, and engraver, publisher, mystic and visionary
The location is for the headstone for William Blake and his wife in the public cemetery at Bunnhill Fields Cemetery, (which could be a corruption of Bone Hill), which was the main burial ground for Non-conformists between 1695 and 1852. Blake and his wife were buried in unmarked common graves which accounts for the description on the headstone. More fortunate neighbours have more impressive memorials, these being Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan
His most famous poem "The Tyger†was contained in his “Songs of Experience (1794)â€Â, which he illustrated and published. “This book of poems the world is seen from a child's point of view, but they also function as parables of adult experience. The first verse is:-
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
Another poem which he is famous for is “Jerusalemâ€Â, which is usually sung as a hymn. This` also used as the anthem fat Women’s Institute meetings. The poem was originally used as the introduction to - Milton, a poem in two books, “To Justify the Ways of God and Menâ€Â. These finished and engraved between 1803 and 1808
The first verse of Jerusalem:-
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
Blake also hated the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England and looked forward to the establishment of a New Jerusalem "in England's green and pleasant land." Between 1804 and 1818 he produced an edition of his own poem JERUSALEM with 100 engravings.
William Blake has been regarded in many ways as the archetype of the non-conformist artist, battling in loneliness with the greatest elemental themes. Examples of Blake’s paintings can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1
For further information on Blake see http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/blake/blakes_l.htm
For details of his poetical works see http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm
TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
English poet, painter, and engraver, publisher, mystic and visionary
The location is for the headstone for William Blake and his wife in the public cemetery at Bunnhill Fields Cemetery, (which could be a corruption of Bone Hill), which was the main burial ground for Non-conformists between 1695 and 1852. Blake and his wife were buried in unmarked common graves which accounts for the description on the headstone. More fortunate neighbours have more impressive memorials, these being Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan
His most famous poem "The Tyger†was contained in his “Songs of Experience (1794)â€Â, which he illustrated and published. “This book of poems the world is seen from a child's point of view, but they also function as parables of adult experience. The first verse is:-
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
Another poem which he is famous for is “Jerusalemâ€Â, which is usually sung as a hymn. This` also used as the anthem fat Women’s Institute meetings. The poem was originally used as the introduction to - Milton, a poem in two books, “To Justify the Ways of God and Menâ€Â. These finished and engraved between 1803 and 1808
The first verse of Jerusalem:-
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
Blake also hated the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England and looked forward to the establishment of a New Jerusalem "in England's green and pleasant land." Between 1804 and 1818 he produced an edition of his own poem JERUSALEM with 100 engravings.
William Blake has been regarded in many ways as the archetype of the non-conformist artist, battling in loneliness with the greatest elemental themes. Examples of Blake’s paintings can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1
For further information on Blake see http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/blake/blakes_l.htm
For details of his poetical works see http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm
TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
08-Jun-04
N 54° 06.065 W 004° 37.948
Monk’s Bridge, is a pack-horse bridge across the Silverburn River not far from Rushen Abbey, Isle of Man. It was built by the Cistercian monks of the Abbey in 1350 AD, in order that they could reach their farms to the north. It is considered by some authorities to be the finest surviving example of a medieval bridge in the British Isles, see (visit link)
This bridge is a point of interest on the Millennium Way Trail, (visit link)
Rushen Abbey was founded in 1134 AD, the adjacent village is Ballasalla. For further information see (visit link) (visit link) , or
(visit link)
Cheers, NIBBO
28-Mar-04
Logging after receiving confirmation.
Plenty of tourists about. Unusual site, is it effectent? Also at the location, quite a bit of punctuation of a certain type about. TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
Plenty of tourists about. Unusual site, is it effectent? Also at the location, quite a bit of punctuation of a certain type about. TFTC
Cheers, NIBBO
15-Mar-04
The Elfin Oak, Kensington Gardens, London, United Kingdom.
This located adjacent to the Princes Diana Childrens Playground. It is surrounded by the cage for protection. Money is often thrown into the cage, in a similar way moey is thrown into "wishing wells".
The gnarled oak stump came originally from Richmond Park and was thought to be some 800 years old when it was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1928. Over the next two years it was worked on by artist-illustrator Ivor Innes, who covered it with brightly-painted animals, elves and fairies, mostly carved from the oak, others probably fashioned from plaster.
The Elfin Oak of Kensington Gardens, the children's book which Ivor Innes published with his wife Elsie in 1930, describes how "for centuries now it has been the home of fairies, gnomes, elves, imps, and pixies. In the nooks and crannies they lurk, or peer out of holes and crevices, their natural windows and doorways. It is their hiding-place by day, their revelry place by night, and when the great moon tops the bare branchless tree the Elfin Clans come out to play and frolic in the moonlight." (Elsie Innes, The Elfin Oak of
Kensington Gardens, Frederick Warne & Co, 1930
For details of this see:-
http://www.newsrelease-archive.net/coi/depts/GHE/coi6153d.ok
Further photos:-
http://www.wertperch.co.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=elfin_oak
Cheers, NIBBO
This located adjacent to the Princes Diana Childrens Playground. It is surrounded by the cage for protection. Money is often thrown into the cage, in a similar way moey is thrown into "wishing wells".
The gnarled oak stump came originally from Richmond Park and was thought to be some 800 years old when it was moved to Kensington Gardens in 1928. Over the next two years it was worked on by artist-illustrator Ivor Innes, who covered it with brightly-painted animals, elves and fairies, mostly carved from the oak, others probably fashioned from plaster.
The Elfin Oak of Kensington Gardens, the children's book which Ivor Innes published with his wife Elsie in 1930, describes how "for centuries now it has been the home of fairies, gnomes, elves, imps, and pixies. In the nooks and crannies they lurk, or peer out of holes and crevices, their natural windows and doorways. It is their hiding-place by day, their revelry place by night, and when the great moon tops the bare branchless tree the Elfin Clans come out to play and frolic in the moonlight." (Elsie Innes, The Elfin Oak of
Kensington Gardens, Frederick Warne & Co, 1930
For details of this see:-
http://www.newsrelease-archive.net/coi/depts/GHE/coi6153d.ok
Further photos:-
http://www.wertperch.co.uk/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=elfin_oak
Cheers, NIBBO
05-Feb-04
Southsea Lighthouse.
This was built in 1823 on the Keep of the Tudor Southsea Castle, built by Henry VIII. It is built into the castle wall. The tower is 18 feet high and is a black and white painted brick circular tower. The light is visible for 5 miles. Portsmouth Port Authority is responsible for the operation of this lighthouse. There is a weather vane on the top in the shape of a fox, but this is not obvious in the photographs, to the memory of an Admiral Fox.
The Lighthouse is unusual, being a Listed Building contained wwithin a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
NIBBO
[This entry was edited by NIBBO on Friday, February 06, 2004 at 4:00:42 AM.]
This was built in 1823 on the Keep of the Tudor Southsea Castle, built by Henry VIII. It is built into the castle wall. The tower is 18 feet high and is a black and white painted brick circular tower. The light is visible for 5 miles. Portsmouth Port Authority is responsible for the operation of this lighthouse. There is a weather vane on the top in the shape of a fox, but this is not obvious in the photographs, to the memory of an Admiral Fox.
The Lighthouse is unusual, being a Listed Building contained wwithin a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
NIBBO
[This entry was edited by NIBBO on Friday, February 06, 2004 at 4:00:42 AM.]
