The view from Blackpool Tower

Back in February, we had a holiday in the North-West visiting Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool. My first time to this seaside resort, and mid-week in February was probably quite a nice time to visit, hardly any crowds and no traffic.

We did go up the Blackpool Tower, which in my opinion isn’t cheap, but we had some tokens from cereal boxes which reduced the overall cost.

The weather was nice, so we had some really nice views from the top.

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

The view from Blackpool Tower

Click the images to see larger versions on the Flickr.

Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular. On a recent trip up north for a holiday, we stopped off for a few hours to have a look around the museum. It is free to get in, and certainly a much nicer option over stopping at the motorway services!

There are lots of aircraft on display, and the Cold War exhibition certainly was quite haunting (especially for those of us who the 1980s isn’t history, as we lived through it).

RAF Cosford

Spitfire

Catalina

Me163 Komet

RAF Cosford

RAF Cosford

RAF Cosford

RAF Cosford

RAF Cosford

RAF Cosford

Well worth a visit if you like aircraft or modern history.

Made me smile

This made me smile.

This is the LEGO Jurassic World Game Teaser Trailer, I think my kids will enjoy the game when it is released.

Let it snow…

Well let’s hope it doesn’t snow, as though it looks pretty, it does make all those things you need to get done somewhat challenging.

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These photographs were from 2009 and 2010, since then I’ve not seen the type of snow we had back then.

In the Lake District

Back in 1998 I visited the Lake District and had a very enjoyable few days walking across the hills and valleys. Sadly I’ve not been back since (well I did go in 1999), not really had the chance or the time. Hoping that this year that may change. I think this is around Ennerdale.

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

Lake District

I took these photographs with a Canon EOS 500 camera using film, the images were scanned in from prints.

Ten Incredible Sand Sculptures

Over the last few years, artists from around the world have created amazing sand sculptures on the beach at Weston-super-Mare. Here are ten incredible sculptures.


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Jurassic World Trailer

Jurassic World

This is the new trailer for the new Jurassic World film.

It’s over twenty years since the release of the original Jurassic Park, which apart from making me feel old, it’s interesting to note how far CGI technologies have come. CGI back then was very innovative, but now most films have a CGI element to them. I also am seeing how many film makers are now moving away from CGI for some effects and going back to models and live action.

In the original Jurassic Park, there were only fifteen minutes of actual dinosaur footage in the film: nine minutes were Stan Winston’s animatronics (live models), six minutes of it is ILM’s CGI.

Legoland Workshop

Legoland Workshop

This is the onsite workshop at Legoland Windsor where they fix, refresh and make (some of) the models across the site. In the workshop are various broken, old, new and part-completed models. Mainly for Miniland, but also other parts of the park.

The tubes are ventilation tubes, as the Lego models are glued and these tubes take the fumes away.

This cabinet contains a range of models, mainly heads and vehicles.

Legoland Workshop

Note the drawing on the bottom left that was used to help plan the lego model next to it.

Legoland Workshop

You can also see a small Lego version of the Atlantis ride submarine.