A short trip to the seaside

[louiselux]

Connotations was so much fun. Spending time with like minded people is one of the best pick me ups. I got there late Friday, sat in the bar till even later, then got up at 8 for a run on the beach! new_kate and daegaer got up with me and came down to the beach and watched from a safe distance. Running on beaches is my new favourite thing, it was just awesome and, yes, BRACING.

I caught a couple of panels, one on rps, then we braved the rain and went to spend money in the fleshpots of Tynemouth, and eat cake. Saturday night was the moderately tidy dinner, then the vid show that included the truly frightening Shatner 'interpretation' of Rocket Man. We all got up for another run on Sunday, then mostly hung around chatting until it was time to for me and new_kate to haul ourselves away in the afternoon.

I've been a bit poorly since I got back, with something the doctor suspects is a urinary tract infection. Joy. So I've been drinking lots of water and have also taken a couple of days off work.

Anyway, I have photos:


The Haunted Lido of Tynemouth Beach. You just know ravening slime beasts lurk under the mud in the middle



The 'ironing board' was just literally a board, with no legs. The TV had been trundled over the large melted patch of carpet that was clearly caused by someone placing a hot iron face down on it. Just next to the board is the sofa that eats people.



A lot of this kind of thing went on



This beast was spotted lurking in a second hand shop in Tynemouth. I think it just ate a shop assistant.



Daegaer's feet looking extremely glamorous and well presented!



Beautiful beach - cool and windy and with the kind of bright sun that makes everything shimmer. I adore this place.



Note the dude on the left who is surfing in apparently an inch of water



O hai!

Comments

[avierra.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you feel better soon.

The beach looks wonderful for a walk (looks chilly though!) Your food pictures are inspiring me to go bake cookies. >_> Mmmmm comfort food.

What the heck is the first pic, is that an ice rink or something else?

[chomiji]

The pic of you on the beach is very nice!

The doc didn't give you anything for the urinary tract infection? I get those about once a year ... I can sometimes make them go away with massive doses of cranberry juice. This was once considered something of a folk remedy, but it's recently been proved to have a sound scientific basis. (If that doesn't work, I'm given antibiotics.)

[scribblemoose]

Aw, I remember doing tai-chi on that beach early one morning last year. It was amazing, so fresh and beautiful.

As, my dear, are you. *hugs*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I could have made it!

Lovely pictures, and I vastly admire your stamina for Actual Running!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind knowing what sort of things the rps panel had to say... ^__^


But those are great pictures...and fude and coffee in cups and saucer type things ...how awesome and wonderfully civilised ... makes me want to take out the nice china for a cuppa!!

thank you for sharing.

Hope the UTI goes away ... yes cranberry juice, grapefruit or orange juice, but basically anything with a high citrus content and lots of fluids.

take care and rest up well. * gentle hugs*

ps- those are exquisitely splendidly flirty feet and toes in an equally exquisitely gorgeous sandals!

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

8am running during a con? I'm impressed! o_O And now I want to go to the beach...

Hope you feel better soon!

[mainekosama.livejournal.com]

Wonderful photos (especially the last :p); looks like you all had fun!

And, btw, those are some dramatic sandals ;-).

[maribella008.livejournal.com]

So addled by Mutua Madrileña have I been (not all my fault; you put that post first) that I haven't asked until now - and I was so dying to know!

So they left rps off the poll and just decided to sneak the panel quietly onto the agenda, hmmm?

Bracing running on the beach makes you a role model. *nodnod* Yes it does.

That - dresser? vanity? vampire? - looks like it would be right at home in Burton and Depp's "Sweeney Todd".

Are you related to Thandie Newton? You resemble her in that picture. That is a compliment, with the Mona Lisa mystique thing going on that you both seem to have.

Garlic will help both race out the UI and build up the immune system. Odorless pills if you must, but you will have to take more than if you chop the clove and just swallow the chopped pieces and wash them down with 8 oz water. Yes, I know. Yes, you can.

"Shatner 'interpretation' of Rocket Man"
A classic.

[baka-gaijin.livejournal.com]

...the dude on the left who is surfing in apparently an inch of water.

Always know your limits.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

You are so cute! The haunted deck is indeed haunted-looking. Great photos. Hope you feel better soon!