What fresh hell is this?

Greater London the 11th, Britain the 14th

colubra

7/12/09 10:56 am

Driving through Dulwich, made the following observation:

'I see people in the field, playing cricket. I can tell because they're all in white and standing about doing absolutely nothing'.

Off to Banksy vs. the Bristol Museum.

• Current Location: dulwich village, UK
• Current Music: 'Bohemian Like You', Dandy Warhols

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• sanat

  7/12/09 10:29 am (UTC)

  

  WOO, yeah, visit the HELL out of that country! ;)
  
  (I have no idea what I'm saying, I should be in bed...)
  
  But! If I recall your love of Scotch correctly, you might ask the lovely expat nanila, since I recall a photo of her somewhere in England staring hypnotized at a bottle of some kind of single malt. ;)

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  • colubra

    7/12/09 08:39 pm (UTC)

    

    I've only briefly dipped into Scotch country, and my host fears the Scotch, so I didn't actually... have anything interesting.
    Ah well, I know what I'm buying Duty-Free on the way out the airport.

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• ikkyu2

  7/12/09 06:55 pm (UTC)

  

  I love how you travel, man. You are hitting all the high points.

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  • colubra

    7/12/09 07:31 pm (UTC)

    

    Thanks! Some of this is me knowing London better than some relatives. I can skip the 'must-do' stuff and go to just the 'want-to-do' stuff.
    
    BTW: if you're going to be in the UK, Banksy's exhibit's at the Bristol Museum until the end of September.

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• feyandstrange

  7/12/09 11:41 pm (UTC)

  

  Also, I keep misreading this as "Dunwich", and am now picturing the Dunwich Horror Cricket Side, which distresses me and makes e giggle. (Know how regular cricket bowlers always look a bit odd because of the red streaks on their crotch? I think their ball always comes off greenish no matter what they try.)

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  • ikkyu2

    7/13/09 04:36 am (UTC)

    

    Pitches and wickets and creases - dire stories of Paul Collingwood and the Twenty - may reproduce themselves in the brain of the avid cricketer - but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the archtypes are in us, and eternal.

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    • feyandstrange

      7/13/09 04:44 am (UTC)

      

      *gurgles distressingly from laughing too hard*
      
      I was trying to come up with something in which the cricket game was in fact an ancestral memory of a summoning spell, but you win.
      
      

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• beleiri

  7/14/09 09:50 am (UTC)

  

  You've hit on the main difference between England and Australia. Here you'd see people in a field wearing white with beers in their hands standing about doing absolutely nothing but drinking.

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