Thursday & Friday pics

 
Thursday morning.. First, waiting for the early 145 from Bray to St. Stephen's Green (I walked from there to Mill Street where our unit base was).. Then, relaxing at the extras dining bus, before or after breakfast..

 
At South Studios - the location for the shoot.. Upstairs was our holding room, hair & makeup, etc..


"Art".. =D (See the face?)

 
There's a really gorgeous (and seemingly mainly unused) courtyard, behind the building.. It was our tea & coffee area.. It would be a lovely place for a glass-roofed coffee shop or something, although the location would suck for that.. I just hate seeing beautiful places 'wasted', as in, not used to their full potential..

 
A window, and the view.. I was kind of hoping I'd taken Valentine with me (=my camera) as the window panes were old, and made the view all wonky, depending on the angle you looked at it.. Would have loved some wonky view pics.. My phone camera can't really deal with that sort of stuff..

 
If there's something I hate about extra work, it's that there are never enough seats for everyone.. (Which reminds me of that Camelot actor quoting some older actor, on acting being a business of finding a seat - I found it hilarious..) I was hogging my spot on the sofa for a lot of the time, but at some point, I had to sit on the floor.. I sit on the floor at home all the time, since I've no furniture, so when I'm not at home, I'd expect to have a feckin' seat, thank you very much.. Anyway, I saw this old radio while sitting on the floor.. The miniature houses were nice - I love miniatures..

 
I had chuck-chuck for lunch.. (That's chicken, in our cat slang..)

 
Then I pretended to be a bus driver..

 
At least one of these dogs is in the film, maybe two..

 
I didn't do much on Thursday, just briefly walked between the camera and a guy playing the guitar, and back, lol.. Other than that, it was just killing time.. It was a gorgeous day, so we were out for a good while as well..

 
At the courtyard again..


That was Thursday. It was a long day, which was a bit of a killer, but overtime fee is always nice, and I didn't have to wait for the 145 that long, on the way home, so it was all good.. I was just soooo sore, after standing around, sitting on the floor (when I lost my sofa spot), and walking..


On Friday, we had to be there at 7:15am, or 7am for breakfast.. I wouldn't have been able to make it, had I taken the earliest 145, so D gave me a lift in the morning. Here we are back in the holding room already, after breakfast..

 
As everyone had been sort of bored out of their minds, the day before, people had come prepared, this time.. There were magazines and board games..

I happened to notice this travel magazine article on Helsinki, so I was browsing it.. It featured buildings I've never seen.. Helsinki has become such an unfamiliar place to me - the whole city centre has changed, there are new buildings here and there, bus routes aren't the same anymore, etc.. It was a bit bizarre to see my parents' neighbour mentioned. Just a small detail I wouldn't have expected to see in a random travel article, which I happened to be browsing in Ireland. I don't know if anyone gets what I mean with that, but it just made me think of my parents =)

 
Scrabble session.. I was just observing..

 
We were used more on Friday, but there was still plenty of time to sit around..

 
I hadn't expected such an early lunch, so I'd had a bagel (I'd toasted at home), not long before it.. I just had salmon and various salads, for lunch. Couldn't even manage any dessert, so I grabbed a little fruit stash for later (the bananas I had in my bag already).

 
Handless but happy - and that view again..


For the rest of the day, I was sitting here with G and a guy whose name I forgot to ask. G was telling us very interesting stories about Iraq, from the time he worked there. If he ever writes a book about it all, I'm buying it.

We were expecting to wrap maybe at about 5-6pm, so it was a pleasant surprise to be told at 3pm that we could go home! =D

 
The day was even nicer than the day before, so it was a nice walk to the bus stop on Leeson Street, although my feet were killing me.. (Oh, earlier on, while we were on a break outside the studios, three traveller guys went by with a horse and cart, and the whole area was stinking of herbals, after them.. lol..)

The bus came right away - again, and I got a comfy seat, mmm.. Dublin was sunny and gorgeous, but the sky went duller and duller as we approached Bray, so I was almost expecting it to be cold and rainy in Bray, but it wasn't actually too bad at all. There was even some blue sky, and it was very warm as well, but I wouldn't say hot..

My feet were absolutely burning, but I went to Tesco as I wanted some ice cream or such.. The only thing I wanted was Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, but I'm just not going to pay over €6 for a tiny tub of ice cream, FFS.. So, I bought some twister lollies instead. And Pepsi Max. I rarely drink that sort of stuff, but I'm having a little Pepsi Max phase now.


Aaaaaaahhhhhhh.. It was SO good to sit in the garden and dip my feet in ice cold water (which actually started boiling, soon after I took this photo.. heh..)