Wine is for elves...

[curiouswombat]

A few odd images from my week in York are under the cut.

One shows another of the Museum Gardens squirrels - this one fancied himself as a strongman, another is of Clifford's Tower. On the night of their Graduation Ball, D-d and some of her friends went from the ball to climb up the motte and watch the sunrise beside the keep itself (Clifford's Tower), with champagne.

The third shows suitable drinks for elves and dwarves...



Here is the squirrel -



And this is the motte and keep of Clifford's Tower.



It really is a text-book motte - but the keep is a rather unusual shape. The history of Clifford's Tower is a troubled and sad one, including the massacre and mass suicide of many of the city's Jews in 1190. Still, to see sunrise from there after the ball is something to remember.

And finally, for today - I took this photo in the gift shop for one of the museums - it shows wine for elves - 'Autumn Oak Leaf' and also a drink suitable for Dwarves -





I have some photos of a medieval building that reminded me of Rohan, some to show ningloreth that I am collecting stuff as research for stories, and a few others including a threatening poster for breakfast cereal!

So there will likely be a few more picture posts yet.

Comments

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I remember it's quite a steep climb up that moat. A sunrise from there most be something to see.

That squirrel is being very ambitious but then she does look to be in milk so maybe she has a family to feed somewhere. [Do squirrel's eat wood!!]

And I'm definitely going to try and find some of that wine.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the squirrel was doing with the branch - she seemed to be lifting it and then putting it down like a piece of gym equipment!

Here is a link (http://www.cairnomohr.co.uk/) to the company who make the wine. I think it might make good Christmas gifts...

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the link. Christmas presents [as well as a few for myself] is a great idea.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Neat pictures! I like the keep. And the squirrel is too cute!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The man-made hill, or motte, is a real classic - the keep is in good condition from the outside - but not from the inside.

I wanted to video the squirrel, but by the time I reset my camera to video she had stopped weight-lifting.

[jerusha]

Hee! I love the strongman squirrel!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Inzilbeth pointed out to me that she is a strong-woman squirrel - which is even more impressive!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing Clifford's tower.It gave me the shivers.I love the aquirrel.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the picture of Cliffords Tower with seven or eight twenty-one year olds in posh frocks and evening dress seeing in the dawn will help counteract the shivers. The squirrel was so funny, watching her.

[evilawyer.livejournal.com]

What a squirrel!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

She is obviously a fitness addict!

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I love buildings with history, and that one certainly qualifies.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You would love the whole city.

[weird-cowgirl.livejournal.com]

I was at Clifford's Tower once! It was 10 years ago, and I bought a wooden dagger, because that's what an 11 year-old girl needs, a wooden dagger.

It's funny how that picture makes the tower look like it's not near anything, when really it's in York.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is weird, isn't it? I hadn't thought of it until you mentioned it.

I was actually standing on the steps to the Castle Museum, and we parked in that very car-park in the picture to go out for a meal on Thursday - walking less than 100 yards to get to the restaurant. And yet it does look as if it is all alone.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Clifford's Tower

*shudder*

Bad enough that I was full to the gunnels with the history of the place, but when I climbed the worn and tilted spiral stairs I found myself, with my 20 pound toddler in a tall back-pack, standing next to a hip-high parapet atop a wall that's not quite straight so there was no wall visible between me and the ground.

It was a truly epic acrophobia induced panic attack.

Julia, no, I didn't climb the Minister: Franklin and Anna did, the next time, though.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Urgh - I can just imagine.

I have to admit to never having gone to the top, because I am sure it would have that affect on me too. Not been to the top of the Minster, either!

[debris4spike]

Lovely - especially that squirrel! How much did you have to pay him for that pose!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I was very mean, didn't even have a biscuit for the squirrel - although they get so many treats from people that they usually just take stuff and bury it in a half-hearted fashion. S2C saw one hiding crisps under leaves!

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

That squirrel is so cute! I wonder what she was doing?

I look forward to seeing the reasearch ;-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Research pics in the next post, I think!

As for the squirrel - it was so funny as really there didn't seem to be any practical reason for it - she lifted it up and put it down three or four times.

[ellaygee-09.livejournal.com]

Battle Axe Bitter - the perfect drink for a dwarf!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I loved that the two were close enough to fit into one picture.