Sunday 6 November 2011

The Savage Eye morning, autumny Castleknock, cows, etc.

A lamp in Castleknock College (The Savage Eye morning)

A lamp in Castleknock College (The Savage Eye morning)I had to be at Castleknock College at 8am, on Thursday, but when I was checking DART timetable online, before going to bed on Wednesday evening, I discovered that the earliest DART from Bray was at 7:10am :o Apparently, disruption between the Grand Canal Dock and Sydney Parade, due to flood repair work. Brilliant. D promised to give me a lift in the morning, though, so I didn't have to take a very expensive taxi..

It was a rainy morning, and eventually, I made it there almost an hour early, but the crew were already there, so it was grand. I had a coffee and signed the release form, and then it was time to get ready for the sketch. I was a bored civil servant, which was funny, because I used to be a bored civil servant in real life, years and years ago.. =D Can't wait to see that one..

(I already blogged about this, briefly - here..)

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

I took my time walking to the bus stop, because the area was really nice with the autumny colours.. Above, the building where they were shooting the sketches (Dorley House, I think), and the rest of the pics I just snapped on the way to the nearest bus stop in Castleknock Village.

Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Here's that cow video again - this time, from my Vimeo account;



Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College Around Castleknock College

Around Castleknock College

Castleknock Village Castleknock Village

Castleknock Village

Castleknock Village Castleknock Village

Castleknock Village

I was lucky as it only started raining when I reached the bus stop and the nearby shelter..

Bus stop in Dublin

As I didn't know exactly what was going on with the DART, I'd decided to take the 145 to Bray - actually very handy as the Kildare Street bus stop was the same for 37 (which I took from Castleknock) and 145 =D (I must also say that I LOVE the Dublin Bus website! Very, very handy! Especially if you use it with Google street view & Bing bird's eye view. For example, I wouldn't have been familiar with the 37 route, and would probably have gotten off the bus around O'Connell Bridge and walked to the nearest 145 stop I could remember.. But having checked the routes online, I'd discovered that they shared just this one stop.)

I had actually thought about going for sushi lunch at Kokoro Sushi Bento (earlier entry about that), but I was lazy and just went straight home.. It turned out to be a good decision, because the moment I got in to the house, the heavens opened, and had I arrived back later, I'd have gotten soaked to the bone.. (I still can't wait to get more lovely sushi, though..)

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