Tinside

  
Last week I went swimming on the Plymouth Hoe at Tinside Lido. It was built in 1935 and is an Art Deco, grade II listed building that after years of neglect was re-opened around 2005. It draws salt water from the sea itself and like all pools, has a shallow and deep ends (certainly deep enough for diving!).
As its an open air pool, it has summer opening hours from June to the end of September and on a gloriously summer day, it truely is a spectacular place to swim!

What a view no?! that little Island there is Drake's Island and privately owned after years of apparently being owned by the crown. The Lido juts out into the Sound and you can see all types of boats, ships and military water crafts trafficking in and out of this massive harboured area, protected by the break water some miles out.
 

Tinside still retains its Art deco features such as this crystal glass panel, cut with the image of a female diver...if you look, you can see her just about. As the place is listed as a protected building, many features have to remain intact and it is just lovely to be in a place where you can roam the same paths the people back in the thirties did! It still keeps its communal changing rooms and the surround areas of the hoe still have trellaces, walk ways and beach huts where the more braver bathers could swim or stroll and enjoy the view. If you do visit Plymouth and have a bit of time on your hands, it is worth a walk exploring the maze like areas along the hoe, especially on a great day like it was when I went to swim there...in the freeeeeeezing waters!

If you closed your eyes, laid back in the water and felt the sun blast on your skin, you could almost convince yourself you are in a hot, exotic location, not in wild Devon!

And Plymouth's famous landmark...Smeaton's tower! (I once climbed all the way up to the top in a giant wedding dress for a photo-shoot up there once! Quite an experience and people loved seeing a small girl in a giant dress squeezing her way up and down and posing on a windy day...!)

I hope you enjoy this post as much as I enjoyed myself that day and I'm sure some of my American readers would love seeing Plymouth, the original place where the Pilgrim fathers came from and american history in ways, began! Without them, you would have no thanksgiving I guess! It's great to share something like this to readers across the globe so enjoy!

Birdie love! xxx

Right now..

• I have eaten 3 quaters of that little, tiny cake given to me for my birthday...as it's so small, I don't feel the slightest bit guilty! (not fussed about my weight really!)    

•  Is watching Quantum of Solace and admiring the clothes by Tom Ford, never had Bond looked and dressed so well! This got me thinking, it isn't a coincidence that most fashion designers are men...they do seem to know what women want when it comes to fashion. Yet why is something that concerns women greatly and appeals to them is governed by men? Does it show that women tend to want to dress for the opposite sex in clothes designed and inspired by men? Tom Ford however just oozes style and sexiness so I wouldn't be complaining!

• Is pleased she found a way to now get bigger, more visable pictures you can see on the blog and not something so tiny as it was before...thank the lord!

• I'm hating the dermertisis on her hnds, they feel like fire and burn!

• Needing the "get up and go" to come back from its sabbatical, any moment now please!

•  I've found some beautiful pictures from previous holidays and honeymoon..stunning pictures I might share on here in the future.

• Is bit down I've been signed off for another month, finacially I'm running out of choices but medically I'm not fit to work...so what the heck do I do?!

•  Is loving the fact the muse is coming back but just wishes she sorts herself out as to what she is doing?! She is all over the place and I'm tired of having ideas come to me then fleeing...think I should buy a giant net, a muse-catching net...!

• Money is unbelievably tight and I need to get creative with the food remaining in the house...*puts thinking cap on.*

•  There's a parrot, a parrakeet and a budgie in the house that doesn know to SHUT UP!!!

• Has a burlesque project in the pipe-lines with some people but its all hush-hush at the moment!

• Doesnt mind the rain as I can snuggle up inside the house but all day, every day?! I want some sunshine dammit!

•  I'm proud I went swimming at Tinside and then karate yesterday...rock n roll!

• Wants a hug from a certain pug!

•  Just wants things now to be plain sailing and start sorting themselves out a little.

• Realising yesterday and today just how far I've still gotta go and how deep it still all hurts...and admitting I don't think it will ever go away but I will learn to somehow live with it and go from there.

• Getting back to my japanese roots big time! Loving the manga and anime and the peeps I know and rock with! 

• Sleep is out of whack again...*sighs*

•  Is thinking about christmas and a few gift ideas....is it too early?!

• Yesterday's swim in the cold seawater in the bright sun given me peace, I could almost have been swimming back in Bali...almost...!

• Thinking its a shame to see people riding on others coat-tails to glory, it's not nice to use people and it shows laziness and lack of inspiration on their part. Fly with your own wings dammit!

• Wondering what to do tomorrow...Hmm...  

• Looking forward to that mini break away to Torquay soon...will be a nice break amongst the mundane!

• Cant wait to blog soon about the art work I've done! Not bad for random doodles and pratice ideas!

•  Doesnt know where to start with all the star wars books given to me from Muddy...thank you!

• Enjoyed her visit recently from Luka and his daddy! Sucha  smile on him!

• Sending you Birdie love as always! xxx