Because I have a fancy new camera...

[louiselux]

Sights around Reading this winter:





The Christmas display in the window of Jackson's department store - the whole town is too scared to go in there.



"Are you my mummy?"





A bit of old Reading Abbey that no one could think what to do with, so they set it on bricks in the graveyard.





I love that there was an entire association devoted to them and also that they were thought of as the same thing! This attractive monument is outside the swimming baths near my hour, just on the pavement. I don't know if it is still in its original position- it could be, otherwise it is an odd place to have a cattle trough.





This is actually not Reading, it's Birmingham, but I like the picture a lot because of the contrast of the two structures.





My favourite thing about Christmas is being able to put a tree in the sitting room! I love the way it smells and looks and just the fact that... it's a tree. There is something deeply magical about putting coloured lights in trees.





They are the comfiest ones I've ever had, honestly. Made by Clarks, they are suede, foot shaped and have a thick crepe soul.

Comments

Creepy dolls....

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

You're right about them dolls. *shudder*

The shoes do look real comfy! You have tiny feet! So petite.

Pretty tree...and the books reminded me about someone saying:... library Tenpou... stockings...

*falls over drooling* ^___^

Merry CHristmas and a Happy New Year!

Re: Creepy dolls....

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

And the same to you. I hope you and yours have a good one :D

Oh, Tenpou...

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

*paws at pretty abbey piece*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

There is a very pretty ruined abbey in Reading, which I should take you to, if you come this way again, sometime.

[enigel]

Baby Autons! Brr.

That abbey bit looks beautiful. The landscape looks more autumny than wintery. *g*

Very pretty tree!

[notfromvenus.livejournal.com]

Baby Autons!

Hehe! They so are.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

They are so creeepy.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I heart my tree with sparkly love!

I wish it was more wintery, believe me. As an inhabitant of one of those countries where snow is fairly rare, I have a totally idealised view of snow and ice and feeezing weather. I am sure it's not so much fun if snow there for months on end.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Scary possessed dolls. *shudder* Great tree, though. I love Christmas lights on trees. There is something about them that just fills me with joy and the urge to drink warm beverages and curl up with a good book.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Me too! They signify everything that I love about Christmas-- winter, rather.

The dolls really are horrifc, aren't they? I am impressed!

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

*hides from dolls* Those are the creepiest things I've seen for a while! And the shoes look very comfy indeed. The tree is lovely.

Today we went walking on a wild and windy peninsula, then into town to meet people for drinks, and now we're fit to slump and snooze. Instead, we must go to my mum's for dinner!

Merry Christmas Eve!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

And to you too! *big Christmassy hugs* Pass on my love to Els too.

Oooh, that sounds like so much fun, and you know your mum is going to send you deep into the calorie zone. Mmmm, dinner.

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Those dolls are seriously creepy. It's impressive, in a perverse kind of way: it's hard to get a doll to look that completely evil.

Reading Abbey. So, so pretty. I'm a sucker for gothic architecture.

I should take my knitting downstairs and sit by the Christmas tree to do it. Hmm. (Love the bookshelves in the background, too. Yay, books.)

Teeeny feet! I have very big feet. Shoes look very comfy.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I think they have put a lot of effort into those dolls over the years!

Knitting by the Christmas tree sounds so relaxing and cosy - I hope you did that. :-)

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

I think the scariest thing about the dolls is the price tags. Would anyone really buy those? Eeek.

I did end up knitting by the tree. It's very relaxing indeed. I will probably do so again tomorrow.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, those dolls are terrifying! *hides* Hee, you have such cute tiny feet! The shoes do look very comfy and soft. There is something magical about putting lights on trees. This time of year, I love to just turn off all the lights in the room and light up the tree and look at it. It's awfully pretty.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Possibly the perspective might make my feet look even smaller than they are - they are a fairly normal size, honestly! *hides teh feet*

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

I wish I had taken photos of the thing they put in the bridges in Sunderland... There was about fifty dolls in the middle... :shudders: And they moved! :hides:

:ahem:

Clarks make the comfiest shoes ever.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Dolls are just spooky, anywhere. Specially moving ones.

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Totally. o.0;

I love your icon. Where did you get it?

[sinick.livejournal.com]

Ahhh thank you for posting that photo of that window sitting in the grounds of Reading Abbey: it brings back happy memories of a drizzly January afternoon when I had the entire churchyard to myself, taking my own photos of that bizarrely-located window and other odd bits of gorgeousness, and generally wallowing in the Goth atmosphere.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It is a very pretty graveyard! Even in the rain and grey English winter. Glad I could oblige with a photo!

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord - those dolls are terrifying. I keep wanting to scroll back up and look again, but they're too damn creepy. The little tree on the other hand, is very cute!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Don't look at them, they will get youuuuu.

You know, we worked out a whole horror story based on those dolls. It wasn't hard!

[tboy.livejournal.com]

Excellent piccies - thank you for showing us your tree! Shoes look very comfy, and make me want to go out immediately and buy new shoes, too.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I hope you can get to do that, soon! It's weird, ever time I look at them they make me happy. Bizarre. :D

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

Jesus fuck, those dolls are scary! *cowers*

Hee, Christmas tree. Trees are excellent. They were sold out this year so we have a holly bush instead. It was not very easy, to decorate, but it looks really cool. A friend has a sheep's skull nailed above his door in the middle of the decorative greenery. That also looks cool. :) Merry Christmas, yo.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

A holly bush sounds great - I'd like one of them. Although, prickly! Love the sheep's skull - very much harking back to the original pagan traditions of strewing the bodies of dead animals liberally in the trees!