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The Thimble on the Thumb and Other Stories - Rock On Sky
(No, that isn't a shout-out for our local satellite TV provider, or John Williams' erstwhile band - merely a sort of translation of our next destination)
Eventually, though, we had to stagger out into the daylight again and continue our journey, onwards to Cordes sur Ciel...
Cordes sur Ciel (or just plain Cordes until 1993) is a small fortified ( Read more... ) -
The Thimble on the Thumb and Other Stories - Perpendicular Pigments...
Our first stop was Rabastens…
Rabastens - a small commune in the Tarn Department in southern France - was on our list because of the church of Notre Dame du Bourg. Silme came across the place in her researches for the holiday and put it on the possible itinerary just because of the wall paintings. When I finally let her tell me where we were headed in ( Read more... ) -
The Thimble on the Thumb and Other Stories - black pudding to go and a very pregnant aircraft
...It was a journey that started in Toulouse...Well, actually, it started at home, but there is not much that can be said about the motorways from home to Bristol airport, or the plane journey from there to Toulouse. The only excitement came at security, where my bag got pulled over for inspection. “Uh-oh!” I thought, “Here comes the wand of ( Read more... ) -
The Thimble on the Thumb and Other Stories
It is, perhaps, a common thing that places close by have less appeal than those far away. Certainly, for example, it rarely occurs to me to enjoy London, except when showing off for visitors. So, it seems only right that France, the closest foreign country to home, is the one I have visited the least, even though it is the only country whose ( Read more... ) -
And so we punked, with steam...
After much agonising with corset ties, buttons, safety-pins etc, we managed to get ourselves into our Steampunk Ball outfits. Fortunately, since it was a chilly evening, it was only a short walk to the convention hotel. I was a little concerned that my "Fangderbuss" might attract undue attention from security cameras (being so close to the airport ( Read more... ) -
And so, what does this all add up to?
I have the hat, I have the goggles, I have the gun. Somewhere in the depths of the wardrobe, I have appropriate shorts and shirt. I would have had boots too, but they were out in the garage and it was raining.
But, thanks to some pics by my beloved Silme, here is what I will more or less look like ( Read more... ) -
In search of a name...
After all the sawing and cutting and staining and painting and glueing and stuff, the gun is complete ( Read more... ) -
Steampropping...
And the process continues ( Read more... ) -
Propping on
OK, getting there...
Worked out a way of attaching the sprayer, the barrel and the cooling cowling...
( Almost there... ) -
More Propping...
Now that the goggles are complete, I can get on with the vampire gun ( Read more... )