Jack/Ianto Torchwood

The staff at my local bingo hall where dressed in the colours of the American flag - one member of staff went dressed as the Statue of Liberty. I so wish I'd had my camera. I know ezust you are without a computer, but I wanted to send you 4th July greetings. Also to say a parcel is winging it's way to you.

On another topic, I'm using dad's new 8mg speed broadband connection I thought 2mg was good enough, but 8mg! Wow!

One more post after this one of a couple of photos, but I've had to borrow these clips from You Tube. I wanted you to see them as they where some of the highlights. In no particular order:

A) From Newcastle concert in May - John's Scottish take on musical theatre. It's great and very funny. Had us crying with laughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTLhYKL8H_c


B)John and his parents dancing the Slosh to Knock Three Times. This is all of us at the RAH enjoying a bit of audience participation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDaIxZHWJkg

C) For vix24 John and Daniel Boy's singing I Know Him So Well at the RAH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDg1Xhxh8iA


I think I'll have to check out Daniel's album as I was very impressed with his voice. Any how hope you enjoy them.

Non Torchwood fans look away. I'm taking a break from posting the pictures of the JB concert as I wanted to get this story posted to Live Journal.

Title: Mistakes Where Made

Rating: Teen

Disclaimer: I don't Jack/Ianto or Torchwood I'm just taking the characters out for a spin. All kudos goes to Russell T Davis

Summary: Set after They Keep Killing Suzie. Jack and Ianto share breakfast together and decisions on Ianto’s role in Torchwood are made.

Author’s notes: To ezust and vix24 my good friends and fellow Torchwood fans. Some of you who may have watched Bothers & Sisters will recognise the title of a season one episode. I thought it would make an excellent title for this story. The café is made up but I’ve checked and there are such cafes in Cardiff. I have been ruthless with spelling and grammar check but please forgive any slight errors that slipped the net.

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If I ramble a bit in this post it's because I'm trying to put down all my memories for my scrapbooking project. Arrived at Royal Albert Hall with 30 minutes to spare. I needed to get a borchure for vix24. Women (and a few men) where quite happy to hand over their credit cards for key rings, teeshirts mugs and signed photographs.

The Albert Memorial looked good in the early evening sun.




Our seats where in the stalls but behind the sound technicians and a litle way back but we had an excellent view and on tirered seats so no one was blocking our view.

The Albert Hall filling up. It was packed very few empty steats by the time the concert began. I sneaked in my camera and took this picture.



I thought we'd have a couple of supporting acts but John came on soon after 7.30 to a thundering appluse. Once I worked out that my camera had a theatre setting I was able to take video clips and some photo's.

I would not have had the opportunity to see John in concert without the kindness of sodapop200303 and her work colleague who couldn't make the concert.

London, John and the weather put on a show! It was one of the hottest days of the year so far. mellyj chose the wrong clothes for a sweltering London black jeans, top and a black jacket - smart but impractable. Soda and I met up on the train at Cheshunt then changed at Tottenham Hale and headed on the underground to the Rainforest cafe at Piccadilly Circus.

The cafe is underground decked out as a rain forest complete with model animals, huge water fountain and the sounds of the animals and the occassional thunderstorm. Plus a huge fish tank wih large tropical fish. Soda and I enjoyed a large cranberry furit smoothie and had a huge hambrger and chips. Trouble was, we were seated next to the waterfountain which was very noisey!

The water fountain.



Loads of people w here milling outside the concert hall enjoying a final cigarette meeting friends and there was a wide range of age group

Me




Parrot in the trees.



When we left the restaurant Piccadilly Circus came to a standstill with a cycle protest by the Green Party. I took this video and it's my voice you can hear!

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Mellyjane40/?action=view¤t=JohnBarrowmanConcert1609011.flv

When I mentioned I was going to Great Yarmouth a number of people told me how much I would enjoy the town and I did. The sea front is undergoing a lot of re-generation.

The first full day Tuesday we enjoyed the best of the weather. So it was off to Sandringham country home of the Queen. Only one problem in taking pictures I left the saturation mode on my camera on high which is why some of the pictures are a little bright.



And Sandringham Church - the one all the royal family are seen attending at Christmas.

A Happy Birthday to hannahfumk hope that you are having a great birthday. A card will be in the post tomorrow sorry it will be a little late (a fraught week) but I wanted to get my birthday wishes to you today.

For ezust and vix24 this is the picture in Gay Times -there's another solo picture of Ianto which I'll post later on.

Well, mellyj is off on her travels - mum and I are taking a weeks break in Great Yarmouth. http://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/


Will post some pictures when I get back in the meantime hope every one is well and take care vix24 I got your email and have a lovely holiday and look forward to seeing the photo's when you get back.

On Saturday the East Anglian Regiment where given the freedom by the Mayor of Harlow to march through it's streets. As I could see the ceromony from my lounge window - I dashed outside and took these pictures.

Cadets on parade.



I played around with the editing programne on Pisca 3 and managed to eliminate a lot of the crowd that was gathered around the pond. It was a good job no one was pushed in!


The ceromony

Well, another year rolls by and it's Easter again. I was thinking how different it is from my childhood/teenage years when every shut down on a Friday and Monday. I went out to my near by cafe for an treat (Toffee Coffee Frape) and it struck me that children have lots to amuse and entertain. Plus the shops are only closed for one day. I'm not an overtly relgious person but mum and I enjoyed watching a Good Friday Church parade as it passed through the Water Gardens. A reminder of the meaning of Easter.

I'd like to wish all my lj friends a Happy Easter and enjoy the holiday.

I think any one who knows me will know that I'm not a pink person. I recently brought a new MP3 player and the young seller was surprised when I turned down one in pink. This is it:

A nice sleek black number

For the time being, I have to use my dad's computer to upload music. My computer is so old it only has one USB port and dosen't recognise an E: drive.

I promised that I would give a update on the pipes issue. Dad came to the rescue, he looked inside my water tank and cistern no over-flow problems. When he took a look outside, it apperes that the water gushing out is coming from the pipe above mine and lashing on to my pipe. The management company will take the issue up with the young couple in the flat above me.

It's my good friend vix24 birthday.




Hope you are having an enjoyable day.

Apparently the management company that services the block of flats I live in, have x-ray vision! I get a letter today tellig me that on a recent site visit, it's been noticed that one of the plumbing system is over flowing in my block of flats.

They admit that there is a complex layout of overflow pipes but they are pretty certain it's my fault! The person at the management company got very annoyed when I pointed out, that if the system is so complex, how can they be sure it's me!

I don't mind paying out if the fault is mine, but what if I call a plumber out and the fault isn't mine? I got a very tearse answer that Three Valleys Water could take legal action on any waste water.

Dad is coming over tomorrow, to have a look at my water tank. I'll also run my washing machine and fill the bath with water so we can test run the over-flow. But there is no way the company will accept my fathers word. So I may have to shell out up £150! Last thing I need at the moment.

Sorry if my first post in two weeks is to rant (I've had a virus) but I really needed to have a good moan.

Its hard to belive that 2 weeks ago the United kingdom was covered in snow. Here are a couple of pictures I took of the Water Gardens covered in snow and ice.

This is the same gargolye that I use in the above icon.



The large pond was compleltly frozen over as where the smaller lakes.

suilven recently asked to see a picture of one of the more livelier Monkeys! They all where the trouble was getting them sitting still so i could take a photo!

This is Kai a very playful, 3r old male orang-utan. he was born at the park as part of the European Breeding Progamme (EEP).




Two of the zoo keepers wives where by the observation deck for Kai's group oforang-utan. They called him and he was over in a falsh. Much swinging from the ropes and hanging upside from Kai to impress us and to make us all go "ohhh and ahhh!"

I found this article on west_wing_fans which I've recently joined.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/25/AR2009012502731.html

Like all West Wing fans it reminded me of this!

Watching the Sky News coverage of the inaugeral celebrations and seeing the pictures from the Lincoln Memorial; I remembered what a fine sight it is either during the day or at night.

This picture was taken in October 05 from the memorial - a beautiful warm late autumn day.



This one in September 06 a very humid night!

I've come to the conculsion that computers are like cars to get the maxamin performance out of them you need to spend a bit of money.

The computer decided to crash on Thursday night! The system kept slowing down, and I'd get messages saying my Windows memory was too low. After looking the message up on the internet, I discovere that my Ram drive is getting clogged up. After trawling the internet, I discovered a free registry cleaner, called Advanced Cleaner. Wonderful programne, but it doesn't clean as deep as a system you'd pay say about £20 for.

My computer is now running a lot faster but can any of my lj friends, recommend a system that has worked for them? I'll pay for one if it comes highly recommended.