Monday news

[winterbadger]

Took the plunge. My new best friend (click the charcoal & red option).

I caught some rebroadcasts of the classic show The Prisoner on TiVo. That was such a fantastic show when I was three. It was in colour the whole time--who knew? (NB: I think the first colour television my parents got was some time in the Reagan or the first Bush administration. They still have never had either cable or satellite feed.)

DC United clinched a playoff berth, and with 3 games left, they could conceivably take the division title. They *could* go all the way. I'm not sure I believed that at the beginning of the season.

Comments

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

Next time you are in the UK, it's worth planning a trip to Portmeirion, which is the village in North Wales where the Prisoner was filmed. It's one of my favourite places on earth.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I love The Prisoner ;0) A few years back me and my husband went to a fancey dress party as Number 6 and Number 2

[sun-in-splendor.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the world-of-two-wheels. I've never riden a Navigator, but I hear it's a sweet little bike.
Lake Accotink Park might be a good place to try it out. Gravel and dirt trails. The main trial is wide and mostly flat, but there are also some intesting side trails, some easy, some pretty challenging.
If you get interest doing in some group ride, there are a couple of good bike club around DC. Potomac Pedalers has rides at all levels.
Have fun.

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

On TV, at least, it looked like it might be a beautiful place to live, minus all the security and the Beachball From Hell, of course...

[winterbadger]

I remeber surfing a website devoted to the town, it's history, and its role in the series. It's so... eclectic! They couldn't have afforded to *build* something like that, but fortunately someone already had! :-)

[winterbadger]

Thanks, and thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely try that park out.

[stripyredkitty.livejournal.com]

How strange, I was only talking about Portmeirion/the Prisoner to one of my Welsh friends the other day! It's a great place, actually most of Wales is lovely, you should give it a visit if you come over to the UK.

[winterbadger]

I really should; I've been to parts of England and Scotland, but I've not been to Wales yet (though I've read lots of books about it that make me want to).

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's really more a tourist village than a place people actually live - otherwise I would sell my soul for a house, any house, there. On the plus side, for a not completely extortionate amount of money, you can rent out many of the buildings there as holiday homes. It's still my dream to do so.

[winterbadger]

And just think--if Mr 6 had just been more cooperative, he could have had all that fun and not had to pay for the rental, even. :-)

[stripyredkitty.livejournal.com]

Wales is great! I love Snowdonia, nice places for walking in both the mountains and lovely villages. Loads of intereting historical stuff about Welsh industry too, if that sort of thing floats your boat.

[winterbadger]

...and Cader Idris, and Tal y Llyn, and the Craig yr Aderyn (big Susan Cooper fan... see http://www.thelostland.com/scwales.htm)

...and Carmarthen and Maridunum (also a big Mary Stewart fan...)

Really, the mountains alone would do it, and then there's the sea and all the history beside.