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

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..)

 

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.



 

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



 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 



 



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



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..)