tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83305836687209575732024-03-13T20:04:50.788+00:00Breaking CoverA secret writer emerging from the shadowsSally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-13731932792648730432014-04-30T19:22:00.001+01:002014-04-30T19:22:58.410+01:00X is Xmas Shopping<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
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<b>Random Sightings No 24.</b><br />
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Christmas shopping is the last thing you want to think about in spring but here are some random sightings from last year.<br />
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<br />Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-57879854708334619842014-04-29T19:49:00.000+01:002014-04-29T19:49:25.098+01:00W is for Water<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
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<b>Random Sightings No 23.</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-53151322742191300902014-04-28T19:59:00.000+01:002014-04-28T19:59:10.154+01:00V is for Vacant<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-67926885155739520122014-04-27T16:00:00.002+01:002014-04-28T19:48:57.443+01:00U is for Up<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-24618149643810979552014-04-26T18:44:00.000+01:002014-04-28T19:48:32.370+01:00T is for Traffic<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>Random Sightings No 20.</b><br />
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A belated letter T. Hopefully I'm back on the straight and narrow though I will try and blog tomorrow to help make up for lost time.<br />
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Traffic. It's so ubiquitous that we rarely notice it. It annoys us when drive in it or try to cross the road but as often as not we go to great lengths to edit it out of our lives especially when taking photographs. So going against the flow I'm posting some traffic related pictures.<br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Random Sightings No 19.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Here in Leicester we like a good pork pie. Although traditionally associated with the Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray, where they have Protected Geographical Indication status*, similar pies are produced elsewhere in the county. The giant specimen pictured below with it's distinctive fluted pastry (Melton pies have a different style of pastry) was on display over Easter in Walkers Pie Shop in Leicester.<br />
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The old children's nursery rhyme begins:<br />
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Sing a song of sixpence,<br />
A pocket full of rye.<br />
Four and twenty blackbirds,<br />
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When the pie was opened,<br />
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Wasn't that a dainty dish,<br />
To set before the king?<br />
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Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-64192741293877688642014-04-21T20:21:00.002+01:002014-04-21T20:21:46.931+01:00R is for Reflections<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>Random Sightings No 18.</b><br />
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<br />Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-2272000776358010522014-04-19T18:57:00.000+01:002014-04-19T18:57:24.955+01:00Q is for Quaffing<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>Random Sightings No 17.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Beer quaffing that is. Some pictures taken at the National Winter Ales Festival in Derby this February. The festival was held in the Derby Roundhouse, a former Victorian railway locomotive works and is conveniently close to Derby train station so no drink driving back to Leicester I'm glad to say. These pictures were taken on the final day and, as you see from the sold out signs, some serious quaffing had been going on. First up though, a picture of the amazing roof.<br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Random Sightings No 16.</b><br />
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Slight cheat today – apologies for that – as I've posted a picture of this before. It was a long time ago though. The sun is out and I should have been out with my camera taking pictures for the challenge but prior commitments have kept me indoors I'm afraid. Very frustrating.<br />
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So here's one from my travels round Leicester last year. It consists of a glazed tiled advertisement for 'headache drink Sea Breeze' with a depiction of a medieval alchemist above. It was part of a shop premises built for TE Butler, Son and Co., Chemists; dating from 1903 (although the business was established in 1840). The shop is situated on the corner of High Street and Cart's Lane. The building is Grade II listed.<br />
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A few pictures of narrow boats taken on the the canals of the Midlands.<br />
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<b><br /></b>A kremlin is simply a fortress or citadel and there are many scattered across Russia but here are a few random pictures of the most famous of them all. The one in the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River. Though the government buildings and state apartments are strictly off limits (and strictly no photography) you can visit the older part with it’s churches and palaces.<br />
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On a visit to Athens last summer, I stopped by the National Archaeological Museum and was taken by this startling bronze sculpture of a boy jockey on a horse. The first parts of the bronze were discovered in a shipwreck off Cape Artemision in 1926 and as more parts were recovered it was reassembled to it's present state, finally going on display in 1972.<br />
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The sculpture dates from around 150-146 BC. The bridle and whip are missing.<br />
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<b><br /></b>I'm feeling a bit conventional today, the sun is out and the garden beckons. Not that my garden looks anything like this. These pictures were taken last summer at the Royal Horticultural Society garden at Hyde Hall in Essex.<br />
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<b><br /></b>Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-85322417997904372982014-04-08T08:36:00.001+01:002014-04-08T08:36:33.410+01:00G is for Going Nowhere<b>A-Z Challenge.</b><br />
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<b>Random Sightings No 7.</b><br />
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Not long after I bought my DSLR (back in the winter of 2012) I was trying it out in a local country park near where I live when I came across the remains of burnt out motor cycle. Then a year or so later in a different part of the park I discovered a burnt out scooter blocking the path.<br />
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As I continued my walk I spotted this toy car abandoned in the grass.<br />
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Half a truck hanging on a wall in Nottingham.<br />
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A wooden bicycle in the playground of a children’s nursery school in Leicester.</div>
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And last but not a least a photo of a reconstruction of a bike designed by Leonardo Da Vinci taken back in 2006 in Moscow.<br />
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Last year when I was doing the A-Z Challenge I tried to get a good shot of this clock but it's high up above the pavement in the otherwise nondescript Charles Street in Leicester and all my attempts suffered from huge lens distortion. Recently though I just happened to be on the top floor of a nearby multi-storey car park and suddenly through a gap in the surrounding buildings there it was looking back me.<br />
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It's called the Four Winds Clock and I suspect it goes largely unnoticed by the passers by below, though it measure a fairly hefty 3.62 metres by 3.24 metres. It’s situated on the central tower of Halford House which was built for the Leicester Temperance Building Society by Pick Everard Keay and Gimson between 1955 and 1959. The sculptor was Albert Pountney and it is carved in Portland Stone.<br />
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A typical view of Charles Street. The clock is way up out of view on the building on the left.<br />
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<br />Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-41503598660752943742014-04-05T10:38:00.000+01:002014-04-05T10:38:03.768+01:00E is for Eternal DamnationDay 5, Random Sightings. Just a short one today. A random sighting in Birmingham, England just before Christmas. A warning to sinners stands ignored while a stream of eager shoppers pour into the inappropriately named Paradise Forum.<br />
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For more pictures of New Walk see: <a href="http://breaking-cover.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/promenade.html">http://breaking-cover.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/promenade.html</a><br />
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For more on Leicester’s nineteenth century coffee house movement see: <a href="http://breaking-cover.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/eastgates.html">http://breaking-cover.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/eastgates.html</a><br />
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<br />Sally @ Breaking Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06358187281658271969noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330583668720957573.post-84458900366329429492014-04-03T12:40:00.000+01:002014-04-03T13:02:04.702+01:00C is for CardinalDay three of my Random Sightings. This time it’s Cardinal Wolsey randomly caught on camera in Leicester.<br />
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Cardinal Wolsey (1473-1530) rose from modest beginnings to become HenryVIII’s Lord Chancellor. A shrewd political operator, he eventually came to wield immense power. However his inability to secure the annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon led to his ultimate fall from grace. Whilst in Yorkshire, Wolsey was ordered to London to answer a charge of treason but fell ill on the journey and died at Leicester Abbey.<br />
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This relief portrait in faience of Cardinal Wolsey (c.1923) is situated over the entrance to the former Wolsey Ltd warehouse on Abbey Park Street, Leicester. The artist is unknown.<br />
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The Wolsey knitwear company was founded in Leicester in 1755 and by the 1880’s was the largest hosiery manufacturer in the city. It is still in existence today. More information about the company’s history can be found here: <a href="http://www.wolsey.com/Static/History_1755">http://www.wolsey.com/Static/History_1755</a><br />
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I did something similar on one my posts last year but then I called it underfoot and in keeping with the theme it just consisted of pictures taken in Leicester. The pictures this year include one taken in Milan and some from the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter.<br />
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Random Sightings number one is an alphabet of found lettering.<br />
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