my country is drowning

Fotherington Thomas, you are very very annoying and I assure you I mean that literally and with absolutely no subtext

Some day I will get out to the Scillies, they do look amazing.

This one, Ladybower, is an amazing drowned village:

http://kreuzberged.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ladybower-reservoir-with-the-chruch-spire-visible.jpg

NOT LEAST BECAUSE IT FEATURES THIS AMAZING PLUGHOLE

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/01/75/017566_cc1d9ab2.jpg

^^^^^that is one of the coolest looking things I have ever seen

oh man, someone hates windsurfers more than me

yeah there was a n01se thread with a bunch of those iirc

I think there have been a couple of threads about it because I was never ~allowed~ on N01z3 and I know I had a long conversation with Sinkah about Lyonesse and the lost villages/lands between Cornwall and the Scillies. But it's entirely possible there was a Noise thread as well? There were some p cool threads about ruined Soviet monuments and the like.

what is going on there? (the plughole) - that is amazingly weird!

also - there are way too many threads about whiney and whiney-related memes as it is.

It's an overflow for the Ladybower reservoir - when it's not rlly full, it looks like this:

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/36/65/1366582_26ce3a83.jpg

Lost villages >>>>>>>>>>> yet another of the 40,000 dumb whiney beefs

Someone's fucked with the colour balance to make it look even more like the portal to another dimension here:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/LadyBower2.jpg

wales isnt a country

speaking of portals to other dimensions and Wales -- Torchwood is kinda awesomely campy.

I still haven't seen more than the first series of Torchwood but if there were anywhere there were gonna be a portal to another dimension in Britain, it would be Wales or Cornwall. It's odd, I half understand Welsh now that I've been studying Cornish, it's just spelled all silly.

Now I'm gonna have to drag out that Reigns concept album about the lost/drowned village - Styne Vallis - I was *gutted* when I found out it wasn't real.

http://annoyzview.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-lost-land-of-lyonesse.jpg

^^^^^^^LYONESSE, also featuring the added bonus of a) sea arch and b) LIGHTHOUSE

Just in case anyone wondered why I spend so much time in Cornwall. Which none of you were, I'm just drunk and want to look at pictures of drowned lands. I should get back to work and finish this damned drawing of St Michaels Mount instead of googling pictures of it.

i think it gets less visually "annoying" as the seasons progress, unfortunately.

there is one whiney related meme that deserves life beyond death beyond life

speaking of which, john barrowman has a very attractive posterior

None of the men on that show are the slightest bit attractive, it's so disappointing. However, Gwen, jaysus ker-ist, she made me doubt my heterosexuality - which I think is all part of Russell T Davies' cunning plan, right? Well, Gwen's gay agenda certainly worked on me, just... wow. I think it was the Welsh accent.

also a doe-eyed, raven-haired big bottom bird just got divorced from one of british light entertainment's most ardent defenders of camp 'newsy wewsies' style music hall vernacular

BORING. Going back to my painting if no one has any more drowned villages or Welsh / Cornish weirdness.

ty

in a semiotics4u vein, i wonder if some of the consternation directed at today's song is cuz zooey d seems to have a lower voice than ljg levitt

Trying to paint this - again with the lighthouses. I could see no less than 2 lighthouses where I was staying. It was lighthouses and rainbows all week long, why on earth did I come back?

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/03/04/030473_91943084.jpg

also - there are way too many threads about whiney and whiney-related memes as it is.

― sarahel, Friday, December 30, 2011 4:10 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

how many of them did you start

that's not a contradiction -- there are too many, yet not enough

Less blah blah blah, more ridiculous paintings of LIGHTHOUSES

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6603092849_df8f0c5770_o.jpg

This is exceptionally lovely and smooth Single Malt, I might add. (Though next time I think I'll try the peated version.) There is apparently now Cornish Whisky (!!!!!!) but it's stupidly expensive.

Super picture! Nice glowering skies and yet the sunshine is not too far off.

Thankee! The weather was so strange when I drew that - there was bright sun in Newlyn, but it was pissing with rain over the Mount, but there were dark clouds blowing overhead from Land's End almost above my head, but the sun was so low it was shining almost perpendicular in the gap between the two storm clouds.

Aaaaaaah, it's just such lovely lovely beautiful light that just does such amazing things I can never adequately express how much I love that country. KERNOW BYS VYKEN etc etc

(I was out on the Northern pier in this kind of bus shelter for boats, rather than on the mainland, which is why it looks like the Mount is in a weird place compared to the actual photo)

I have this poster up on my office wall

http://lemonodor.com/images/clui-immersed-remains-s.jpg

(it's from this exhibition: http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-towns-submerged-america )

What a great exhibition/site! I love the name Neversink for a drowned village, don't care if the etymology is different, it's still wonderful.

There was a submerged town near where my Dad used to live in California, and when we visited, the reservoir was so low that we could see bits of it sticking out and the roads going in, but I can't for the life of me remember where it is. (And my Dad's photography website is so poorly organised that I can never find any photos I'm looking for - jeez, either code some keywords or get one Flickr, Dad.)

There is apparently now Cornish Whisky (!!!!!!) but it's stupidly expensive.

yeah my dad mentioned this at Christmas, also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine

Eh, I dunno, Cornish wine is pretty canonical, they were certainly producing wine during the Roman occupation but then again, I think the climate was even milder then. I had drunk Cornish wine, but it was at a restaurant, I recall it being fairly nice, actually.

The idea of introducing (or reintroducing as the case may be- yes, yes, whisky was brought to Cornwall from Ireland by St Piran when he surfed over on a millstone, introducing both Catholicism and surfing to the counry at the same time) Dowr Toemm into Cornwall just strikes me as a supremely bad idea because the Cornish after Methodism made them give up drinking = inventing steam engines, amazing mine technology, building fantastical feats of engineering, sticking Wheals atop impossible chasms, etc. etc. while the Cornish plus Whisky = fish fights and brawling with the English.

But that's going to degenerate into another argument about ~racist stereotypes of "The Celts"~ with Tom D and Darraghmac.

Anyway, Cornish ZOIDER and Cornish mead is where it's at in terms of Cornish bouze gourmandising. Also ridiculous Skinners Ales of which I have never had a bad one.

None of this has anything to do with drowned villages but the unique combination of BOUZE and racist stereotypes of the British Isles is always a popular diversion on ILX. I should just give up and make an "I miss Cornwall so badly" thread and be done with it.

also he brought us some Cornish red wine which is like 17% and sort of pleasant but not in a way comparable to a real red wine

― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:33 AM (5 hours ago)

if it's over ~15.5% then it's fortified like port or madeira etc

good point - was labelled as a red wine tho so *shrug*

I am drinking a http://www.onlinebeerfestival.co.uk/acatalog/cornish_knocker.jpg atm, it is pretty decent and upholds their grand tradition of stupid labels for clowning aesthetes

Aye, that one is good indeed, but if you can find a http://www.skinnersbrewery.com/uploaded_images/ginger_tosser_clip.png <-- that is absolutely my favourite of them, bcuz I love a honeyed ale.