Secret stairs by judithg

Secret stairs

The worst thing about backfilling is working out what tense to write your blurb in! Anyway - a few shocking shots taken on the 10th (despite screeching to a halt and making Adam lean out of the car window to take a man in full academic dress) so I'm going with this one taken today on the 11th. Scaffolders were causing a major blockage of cycle and pedestrian traffic and opening up a view into the inside of Trinity Hall. I thought it looked quite 'unCambridge' although there used to be a postcard in all the shops that said 'Cambridge - home of some of the best scaffolding in the world' so before long it will fit the bill...
Three good things:
1. Book club gossip.
2. Catching up with Millie - Rafiki's sister (she hadn't read the book even on Kittendle).
3. Last pre-tournament hockey practice - some nice movement around the pitch and lots of nice people who came to play against them to give them some match practice.
Beautiful old outside staircase I wonder if that has seen someone escaping in the dead of night in the past?
Times change I suppose & no one will bother if you have visitors staying over in your rooms now!!
Great three things... Millie not as well read as Rafiki obviously!!
April 11th, 2013  
Love the stone and iron work complementing each other. Nice frame too
April 11th, 2013  
@happypat Ooh alsorts of shenanigans I imagine. Shame there aren't Bulldogs running round after dark chasing students these days - must have been good fun!
April 11th, 2013  
I just love them!
April 11th, 2013  
It's almost pretty with the subtle colours.
April 11th, 2013  
Lovely stairs! Love your 3 things!
April 11th, 2013  
Love this shot.
April 11th, 2013  
Love the framing.
"home of some of the best scaffolding in the world" - actually, now you mention it, that is pretty much how I remember Cambridge. Scaffolding and not many hills.
April 11th, 2013  
Jo
Great view through door and nicely framed.
April 11th, 2013  
Fabulous framing to this charming architectural scene...love the bricks, stone, and ironwork.
Good luck to Adam & Co. in their upcoming tournament!
April 11th, 2013  
Great framing. It holds a lot of intrigue with the dark stripes either side xx
April 11th, 2013  
Perfect framing!
April 11th, 2013  
Lovely picture.
April 11th, 2013  
nice framing, and I know what you mean about the backfilling tenses having had to do it for the last few shots! You sound like you're a busy bee at the moment!
April 11th, 2013  
Nice peek at that staircase.
April 11th, 2013  
Un-Cambridge. You're right; from the thumbnail I thought Edinburgh that is until I read the blurb.
April 12th, 2013  
@ellida ooh err judith Graham beat me to the Edinburgh look alike comment !!!.....could be in the welsh valleys too. nice tones in the greys
April 12th, 2013  
This is so much fun to view large - it's like those pictures where you have to look carefully and find all the various bits and objects. Maybe I should get Abby a Kittendle so she can amuse herself at 5:00 a.m. and not walk all over my face.
April 13th, 2013  
Where's Waldo. I just LOVE this take it is so interesting.
April 13th, 2013  
Great scene. There is so much to view here - bricks, stone, iron work. Old and new all blended into one.
April 14th, 2013  
Great find, there's no way I wouldn't look through the open doorways, they just invite you to take pictures :)
April 15th, 2013  
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