Daily Archives: 11/09/2017

Glenbrook House 13 – the trees are gone!

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Whilst I was away in Europe quite a lot happened around and in our new house.

I say around our house, because the neighbours wanted to get rid of some of their trees, and Michael Edwards, our builder, also wanted to chop them down to allow better acess.

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So, they are gone.

 

This leaves a much better view of the house, but in some respects this is too much.  It looks monstrous!

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Seen from afar, the house looks a really huge building, and brings home to us just what an undertaking this was.

 

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This is comparable to views that I have previously  posted, and doesn’t it look bare?  We will be planting plenty of new trees, though, which will look considerably better.

Barcelona

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I (David) have just returned from time spent in England and Barcelona,  Unfortunately i have been unwell since I returned (shingles and jet-lag combined), and so my brothers have beaten me to the ‘blog.  I have been preblogged perhaps – now that’s a good neologism.

I was in Barcelona for the European Cardiac Society meeting, which was excellent.  However, as has been the case before, Mark and John came to stay in the apartment I rented.

Small Barcelona 04 Mark John and Miro sculpture

 

Here they are at the Miro gallery.  Can you tell which is the sculpture?

 

 

 

Barcelona is my favourite destination for the ECS conferences.

Small Barcelona 05 inside the Palau de la MusicaDavid and Amaryllis came to stay in the apartment for a few days also, and arranged for us to go to see a concert in the Palau de la Musica, which is in itself a fantastic building.  look at this picture (click to enlarge) and see the plaster horse jumping out over the stage ….

 

Small Barcelona 30 La Pedreda from the street

 

Barcelona is perhaps better known for the Gaudi buildings, and they really are extraordinary.

 

 

 

Small Barcelona 30 Roof and chimneys of the La Pedreda

This one is La Pedreda (“the Quarry”!) and amongst other features has a roof covered in the most amazing chimneys and towers to accommodate lift mechanisms and staircases.

 

Small Barcelona 36 Champagne bottle chimneys at the La Pedreda

 

 

In the centre there are the chimneys covered in broken Champagne bottles – now that is classy ….

I have to say that my contributions to the Coulshed blogosphere have been much less thoughtful and erudite than my brothers, but then I was the one working during our time in Spain.