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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: August 24th, 2010  Posted in: The Universe Tags for this post: My Life | Sheffield.  2 comments - more welcome!An unexpected treat tonight: walking through town we passed the Winter Gardens. Have they always been open so late? I’m sure they used to be bolted and barred from early evening. Anyway, in we went and discovered that we had the place to ourselves (I’m sure there was a security guard/City Centre Ambassador/CCTV camera lurking [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: June 12th, 2010 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Films | Sheffield. Leave a commentA comedy about a motley crew of wannabe jihadists – it doesn’t sound promising does it? But I’d heard good things about it and besides, it was mostly filmed in Sheffield and I’m always up for a bit of location-spotting. Last night we finally set off to see Chris Morris’ debut feature film, Four Lions [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 14th, 2010 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: #uksnow | Crookes | Sheffield | Weather. 2 comments - more welcome!The first time I spotted her, she was very curvaceous, but noticeably lacking something. I idly wondered if my neighbour was sculpting Ann Boleyn, but then I spotted him making the snowball that was destined to become her head. Her consort appeared the next day. Not sure who added the cigarette, but I think he looks [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 2nd, 2010 Posted in: The Universe Tags for this post: Rivelin Valley | Sheffield. One comment so far - more welcome!The sound of water is always in the background as you walk along the valley. Sometimes its a quiet babble, at others its a crashing roar, but its never far away. It’s not hard to see why there was such a concentration of mills in this area. There are reminders that you aren’t far from the [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 1st, 2010 Posted in: The Universe Tags for this post: Rivelin Valley | Sheffield. Leave a commentStanding and looking at the site of the former Mousehole Forge I was struck by how peaceful it was. These days it’s a private house, but when it was a working forge I suspect the noise would have drowned out the sound from the river. The site has a long history, but is most famous for [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 31st, 2009 Posted in: The Universe Tags for this post: Rivelin Valley | Sheffield. One comment so far - more welcome!Walking hasn’t happened for me this week. A combination of illness (first me, then Mr TLC going down with ye olde traditional Christmas holiday lurgy) and leaky boots (the only pair in which I can stay upright on slippy, icy surfaces) have conspired against me. So, as I sit here in my armchair, I thought [...] Posted by: three-legged cat on: December 21st, 2009 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: #uksnow | Crookes | Sheffield | Weather. 2 comments - more welcome!I was impressed with the finest snowman in Crookes last year; now some of his relatives have mysteriously arrived on our street. I liked making snowmen when I was a kid, but I never made anything like these two. Snowmenpeople with legs. And arms. Wow. And strategically placed bottles. Hmm. Still, I think they’re great. Perhaps I should [...] Posted by: three-legged cat on: September 9th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Sheffield | Spurious lists. 5 comments - more welcome!Last month Neil kept us all entertained with a rather splendid top 5 meme. My favourite was undoubtedly his Top 5 under appreciated things about Sheffield. “The things that I’m going to pick are certainly appreciated by at least some people in Sheffield, but maybe not further afield. I’ve also picked some things that I don’t [...] Posted by: three-legged cat on: September 2nd, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. 5 comments - more welcome!I wouldn’t normally get excited about some heavy plant in the middle of car park. I wouldn’t normally exclaim in surprise on discovering that it had been sitting there quietly, unnoticed by me for 20 years. But this wasn’t just any old heavy plant. Finding it was a chance discovery. My legendary powers of navigation had [...] Posted by: three-legged cat on: August 31st, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Art | Sheffield. 3 comments - more welcome!I’ve shown you the work of various graffiti artists in the past, but here’s a name you might not expect to see: Rolf Harris. His contribution to Sheffield’s urban galleries is a self-portrait painted on a wall in Brown Street. Not all of the artwork in the photo is Rolf’s [you can see an earlier [...] |
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