Dear You Happy Christmas from Me...

Last post of 2010 for Lego Lucy methinks

So, really all that needs saying is BIG Lego Love to all, hope you have a beautiful Christmas and enjoy whatever it may be that you are doing this year...

Mull everything you can get your hands on, 

See you in 2011 - it's gonna be Legotastic. 

A couple of snaps from my Lego Advent Calendar to finish...

Lego Christmas Tree

Play mUsic

hmmm, baffling & a bit scary.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Love Lego Lucy xxx

Songs for Sunday *Christmas Special!*

Well It's nearly Christmas so I thought I would do like a Christmas edition of Songs for Sunday.  You know where I pick songs and say OI listen to this, cos I'm Lego...?!

So I am going to put it out there that these are my favourite Christmas songs...ever! Obviously as well as these there are also the absolute classics that everyone knows and loves BuT I think these particular toooons have got something a little special.  Hope you like...

This song is SO awesome, here is the h'actual song... But I also happened upon a live version with awesome & beautiful string parts...Check them out;




Next one...well the Video's...a bit weird...But I really like the song, Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas.


Bloody Hell WHY NOT! A bit of East 17 to round off my Christmas edition of 'Songs for Sunday'...HA, a classic song, technically not all that Christmassy but still on the Xmas Compilation CD that we listen to every [EVERY] Christmas.

Without a doubt the scariest video I have ever seen in my Lego Life. Is it serious, is it a joke, I don't know?!

A trip to Sawmills. SPREE action.

Sawmills Studio in Cornwall  is one of those places that you feel lucky to get to visit in your life, a splendid place of pretty water and trees and music making.

Lego (Hippy Happy) Lucy

Off down to Sawmills to see SPREE - some brass based business to take care of,
It is quite far from home...
Bus,
trains,
more trains,
taxi
and a boat
....and we're there

Worth it though - Look!

Nice.

To get to the studio once off the train you might walk down the train tracks for quarter of an hour followed by a hidden pathway set back in lots of trees, (a forest as one might call it)...Or you can get to the studio by boat.

On this occassion I arrived in the evening, it was dark and cold and misty and I was met by mister Tom and his boat, it was a bit magical like a scene from Harry Potter, we were sailing across the deserted water with deatheaters on our tail, just kidding about the last bit, that dint happen.

Morning...To look out your window & see this is marvellous in it

Anyway it was a brief jaunt down to Cornwall but there was still time to enjoy the surrounds and check out SPREE's newest work. 

Spent some time down in the Studio where the music gets made...

Buttons and things

Hangin' in the studio

Wired

A big mixing desk

Ulysses Air-drumming very well

 Wonderful place, looking forward to the release of SPREE's album in the not too distant future... (check out their myspace.  It's got music and videos on) 

Love LegoLucy x

P.S

For Sammy 

Christmassy

What makes you feel all Christmassy and festive?

Well here are a few little things that definitely get the Christmas vibe going for moi.....

Our Familial Advent Calendar, up every year (spot LL)

Mulling stuff

The smell of oranges

Also chocolate orange

Awesome Christmas Films...

Delicious drinks such as Ginger Wine

Snow, of course...White Christmas. Yep.

AND this year My LEGO Advent Calendar,

 What makes your Christmas feel Christmassy? 

Love Lego Lucy xxx

Feels a bit Christmassy...

Sheffield is looking like the epitome of Christmas at the moment,
A recent trip to the city centre - well that got me in a christmassy mood and that was still November (pre massive snow attack!)

Cool bubble Tree LL likes

 Now all the snow keeps coming down and it really is like White-Christmas territory...Although is it all going to melt overnight...who knows...?  Or it might turn in to extremely scary and slippery ice...we shall see.
Beautiful none the less (for the time being) 

eeek

Deep!

Look at all this snow!

Songs for Sunday #6 (but not)

Songs for Sunday #6

Normally on a Sunday morning I like to go on about some songs that I have enjoyed listening to during a pleasant Sunday chill out sesh.  But not today, I got too excited about mentioning some other stuff...There is a kind of Sheffield theme to this post...

So first...

Here's a magick new video from Sheffield/Salford/Liverpool's The Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw.  You might recognise the Rutland Arms in the video...a loverly local pub in Sheffield town centre, or you might recognise Candie Payne (Liverpool's finest) OR you might recognise Mister Longarms...aka Adrian, who concocted this marvellous video & song OR you might even recognise an extra special guest appearance from Salford's Maxine Peak (amazing lady).
Check out the video for the Chanteuse & The Crippled Claw's first single - 'Are You One' 



If you like this tune then you should definitely come to the first live show - in Sheffield on the 4th December...Or in Manchester on the 5th (More details here @ Arms Controller .)

Secondly...I happened upon an amazing photography project whilst on the computer yesterday.

(The following info is straight from Luke Avery's website...Sheffield 365 Project which you should have a look at)

"The Sheffield 365 Project came about as the idea of Sheffield based photographer Luke Avery. After spending 7 years in Sheffield, Luke realised that there were still large quantities of the city he had no idea about, both geographically and also in terms of its inhabitants.

Luke set himself the challenge of shooting a portrait of a random member of Sheffield every day for a year, both as a way of getting to know the city better and also to document those who live there at the start of a new decade. This website is the result."

   

   

This project is awesome, I found that I could not stop until I had looked at every single photo.  Perhaps it is more pertinent to those who live in Sheffield, but regardless of the Sheffield setting every photo in this epic collection is splendid,

Here is one beautiful song to finish off the post with (you can have a listen to it whilst perusing the Sheffield 365 Project...dooooo it :)



Happy Sunday!

LLx

Songs for Sunday #5

Songs for Sunday #5

Tune.



This is pretty bloody epic by Lego Standards.



And for my final choice today some kind of remix of Two Door Cinema Club...Lovely and cheerful don't ye think :) definitely a full on summer tune, spot on for the middle of November.  Why not.

LL x

Belgium 2010 - Cold but Brilliant...

The ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge, Belgium is a splendid invention.
You can get an overnight crossing including a delicious (all you can eat style) dinner followed (the next morning) by an even more delicious full English Breakfast. Yum.  Strongly recommend doing it.  Top notch...

Well off we were going - to Belgium for the annual SHS band trip.  
This one time...at band camp - is fitting.

Travelling with 50 (ish) utterly wild and uncontrollable teenage girls  

Lego Lucy = Scared! :)

Much fun was had by all on the crossing over, after a hearty meal we played some bingo and drank some (medicinal) Gin & Tonic.

A near win...

.

I'm on a boat!

On board entertainment, provided by Lego Lucy 

& Friends.

The Blazin Squad

Upon arrival in Belgium - A nice group walk by the sea-front.  It was very cold indeed.  

By the Sea

Drink of the week goes to Kriek - It is delicious.  You must drink this when in Belgium, Cherry beer.  Amazing.

Getting Stuck in to the Kriek

Enjoying a sit down in a bar in Brussels. 

Black Tea and chocolate cigs.

Exploring

The absolute find of the week was a sweet shop in Brugge called the Candy Shop.  Lego Lucy's Heaven would probably look similar.  I have visited many sweet shops.  I am an expert sweet eater and this particular shop was just extraordinary.  It was absolutely necessary to purchase a massive sack of sweets so that I could sample everything on offer.  At this point I was perfectly happy to spend the best part of 10 Euros on sweets.  (Can When in Rome apply here?  Yeh.)

GO HERE!

Best Ever Pick & Mix 

 So Brugge was the place to be for sweetshop experts (such as myself.) 

LL's Heaven

Anyway...Brugge really is a lovely place and only a 20 minute bus journey from the ferry port at Zeebrugge.  There are some great little bars and obviously - the best sweet shop in the world. 

Hangin out in Brugge

A strange signpost

So after a week in Belgium (and a day in Lille, France) It was time to get the overnight ferry back to Hull.  

On the ferry...I think they are imagining what it would be like to have their own Lego Lucy's

Bye bye!

Awesome week in Belgium.  Must go back.  Soon.  I need to! To get another pick & mix.