Saturday 18 July 2009

Where's Laurie?

Well, I guess a number of you will have been wondering why there had been no posts from me for more than a fortnight? At least - I hope so? One or two regular followers might have thought I had pushed my luck once too often with those trees and been been caught by the branches or got dangerously to close to more of those stone lions I have been photographing recently?

Actually, it's a bit more than that. My current job had come to an end and I needed to find another. I applied for a post and travelled to the faraway lands of the north for an interview. A couple of days later, I heard I had been successful and the past few days have been a bit of a blur. Yesterday, I said farewell to my colleagues and am now on two weeks holiday before taking up my new post on August 3. Is it going to be an easy transition to make? I don't know yet, but what I do know for certain is that my new office is 223.8 miles from home!

I will be based in Blackpool - home of the famous Tower and the amazing seafront illuminations - and within sight of the peaks of the Lake District across the bay. Have any of you ever seen the surreal 1995 black comedy Funny Bones starring Jerry Lewis and Lee Evans? It features a cast of fascinating and frightening locals (shiver!) and you've guessed it - it is set in Blackpool.

Eventually, we will need to move there and that will take some coming to terms with, as those of you who remember my post on Paradise Garden where I live. However, in blogging terms, it will lead to my discovering new subjects for my imagination and take me two hundred miles closer to the fantastic Tiddles, star of Jumble Sale Rabbits, and the same distance further away from the remarkable Mr Toad of the Magic Lantern Show. Tomorrow, hopefully, I will return to blogging.
Best wishes
Laurie

13 comments:

  1. I'm glad you were not captured by wayward trees. Best of luck with your transition!

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  2. Best of luck with you new job! A new job, a new place, a new adventure!!! Fun! Paulette :o)

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  3. I thought you had found a really really big yard and was gathering photos for us...I guess I'm rather selfish.

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  4. Dear Laurie, so happy to hear all this news! and thanks for the funny little nod there... so you are torn between Tiddles and Mr Toad... oh dear, a dreadful dilemma that... in any case, congrats on the successful candidature, and a hundred big bundles of good luck and well wishes for the transition !!!

    If you have a spare minute in your no doubt breathless days, do take a quick look at the bit of graveyard detective work that I did last weekend concerning a New Zealand soldier buried in France... was thinking of you of course as that story unfolded.

    Cheers and very happy holidays !!!

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  5. Congratulations on the new job! I look forward to hearing about Blackpool.

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  6. Thanks everyone.

    @eloh - don't worry I did - visiting a remarkable cemetery just north of Blackpool - and will be posting photos soon.

    Owen - I did look at your Commonwealth War Graves posts - good bit of research and photographs.

    lovelyprism - Blackpool will figure highly with the illuminations being switched on in October!

    beedeebabee - thanks for your goog wishes

    Laurie

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  7. welcome back, and congrats on the new job, scary stuff having to move though... exciting at the same time .. such is life!.. :-)

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  8. variety is the spice of creativity
    another story begins
    delicious doing to you

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  9. Wow Laurie! Maybe if you are closer, we could meet up! That would be so nice! xxx

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  10. Good luck with the move. Plenty of fascinating places in Lancashire. Will try and post an incredible limestone outcrop north of Morecambe, looks like frozen waves. Bleak white landscape.

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  11. Enjoy your holiday and welcome to Blackpool.

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  12. Good luck, Laurie, and I look forward to a whole host of new and interesting photos and subjects! Best wishes, Margaret

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  13. Good luck Laurie! sounds like big changes afoot for you.Glad you were able to get work though, and hope these will be positive changes for you.Enjoy your time off first though!!

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