My mission for the weekend

(I didn't really have any choice but to accept it)

Is to get some footage of a sundial and its environs.

Easy you might say but just read this[1]:

....and the roses, the roses, rising out of the grass, tangled round the
sundial, wreathing the tree trunks...

Anybody know of a sundial which fits the description, even loosely,
within a short canter of Sunny Southern Essex?


[1] Extra brownie points for the first one to name the source and
provide the url for a naked jpeg of the author. Minus points for
admitting reading the entire thing.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

Garden centre?

 

Doesnotcompute wrote

right in one.

no brownie points though.

 

I used to know just such a garden, that of a GS850 owner, actually.
But I don't know if he's still there. I'll try to get in touch with
him.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Yes please.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

There isn't a bloody poetic bone your whole fucking body is there?

I need something all arty farty and evocative dunnii. Something that
would look good with Beethoven's Pastoral(the 6th?) going on under the
girlish tones of the reader.

 

Funnily enough, the last time I was in the garden I mentioned, I was
listening to a concert given by piano and viola. Not Beethoven, I
don't think. There might have been some Poulenc.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

I have no idea what it is you're trying to achieve. A video with
sundials and roses with Beethoven going on underneath with a girly
narrator going over the top?

Sorry mate, but it sounds like a soap powder advert.

 

<peers out of window>

Got some weeds trailing gracefully over some scrap; will that do ya?

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Does it have to be quite so literal? I'm assuming this is part of your
course? Perhaps something a little more linear would also be
appropriate?

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Ben Blaney wrote

The Pastoral wouldn't have been my first choice but it does work and it
is not for me it is somebody else's[1] so it isn't up to me. and I am
just trying to help with 20 seconds of sundial.



[1] The burd that has the brain tumour. I have to give her credit
though she has done exceptionally well.

She is all but blind, previous tumours having taken the nerves to
everything below her navel and her eyesight all in the one day when she
was 16 years old. Not to be put off by this she has taken a camera out
and learnt to use it within the limitations of her disabilities. It is
a sequence of absolutely stunning shots, all the more so when you know
who has done it, which she has put together with a well read bit of the
book that is very pretty in it's own right.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Idealy? 20 seconds of a stereotypical sundial in a cottage garden
setting with lichen and plants and stuff on it sometime around 10am or
2pm.

I fucking wish. If I was working for those people I would be lighting me
fags with fivers.

 

Veggie Dave wrote

Go on then, I am open to ideas.

Not mine, other than it gives me more time with fully pro gear to
practice on clients who aren't paying so can't complain about the
quality. See my post to Blaney.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote

I can do that without moving from this chair and I can introduce a bike
theme at the same time.

 

Anyone know of a way of reading a sundial at all in this fucking awful
weather?

Storm lantern?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

Are there no public gardens you can go to?

Seriously.

It might not be poetic or romantic but if the effect is the same?...

 

Whinging Courier wrote

I can prolly get one at my local church and if I have to I will[1]. I
know there is one in an RHS garden a couple of miles from here.
However, a sundial per se is not the issue, it really does need to have
character.



[1] Actually if I am doing me job properly I should take back a kin hour
of nothing but kin sundials. Which is not such a bad idea as it
goes[2].

[2] See, let that be a lesson to us all and not just the pretentious
cunts, even soulless idiots can be a source of inspiration

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache said:

Glad to help

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

I have thought of that, I shall be taking a slightly more modern
equivalent.

 

That would be a good bet. I was going to suggest the Gardens of the
Rose at St Albans, but it appears that they are "Closed for 2004, hope
to re-open for 2005". The slacking cunts.