#Wray castle

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Medieval Wray Castle, Cumbria, ENGLAND

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Wray castle, Cumbria, August 2024

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Earlier morning walk along the shores of Windermere enjoying the first rays of light as the mist clears on the Lake. Views across Wray Castle towards the Fairfield Horseshoe. Have a great day.

📸 by Rod Hutchinson @lakesrhino

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#OTD in Irish History | 2 September:

1022 – Death of Maelsechlainn II, the great High King of Ireland. 1752 – The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe: 2 September is followed by 14 September. 1731 – Birth of Sir Lucius O’Brien, opposition politician, once described as ‘a man who disagrees with the rest of mankind by thinking well of himself’. 1752 – The Gregorian calendar is adopted…

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October 6th: Halloween

Halloween was released in 1978 and was directed by John Carpenter. In 1963, a six year old Michael Myers (primarily Nick Castle, but played by Tony Moran for the final scene) brutally murdered his older sister. Now, 15 years later, he has escaped custody and has returned to his home of Haddonfield. While Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is on a desperate search for him, the masked murderer soon sets his sights on babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). There is hardly a person who hasn't seen the famous Michael Myers mask or as gone without hearing the iconic theme. Directed by the "Master of Horror" John Carpenter, this movie is often credited as being the source of many horror tropes of the past decades. From the final girl to "sex by death", Halloween was the horror movie that elevated these tropes to the next level, as well as creating the most famous (but not the first, that title goes to Fay Wray) Scream Queen, Jamie Lee Curtis. Although it wasn't the first slasher, it was the one that ignited the sub-genre and as such influenced other horror giants such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and has since been a prime example of what makes a great horror film.

It can be watched for free on Xumo Play, PLEX, and Internet Archive.

Content Warnings for the Film (may contain spoilers): nudity, sex, violence, multiple dog deaths, jumpscares

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 Hawkshead to Wray Castle - Lake District by Bob Radlinski

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A beautiful forrey of fungi I found on Tuesday at Wray Castle on Lake Windermere

There were so many but I didn’t have time to stop and capture all of them, somewhere to go back to !!

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I didn’t necessarily mean the power of friendship, but the sadness absolutely. It’s a VERY weird movie with a bad stupid nonsensical plot. But its also a very very queer movie, so inherently it’s going to have some sad undertones about finding home and self expression. Im going to copy paste some thoughts i wrote down from an essay, and an additional part.

Perhaps the most famous example of a horror movie that is queer through and through is Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). It takes all of the themes previously discussed - sexualized villains and power dynamics, cross-dressing and breaking gender roles, tearing down ideals of heteronormative society through violence, gore, and gothic horror - and wraps it up in a movie that perfectly exemplifies and subverts all of those tropes in a 70’s-wackiness musical. The movie features the newly-wed couple Janet and Brad seeking shelter from the rain in Dr. Frank N. Furter’s foreboding mansion. Brad and Janet start as a pure, repressed, socially acceptable couple. However, when they encounter Frank N Furter they eventually succumb to their deepest hedonistic desires. Frank N Furter is a hypersexual “sweet transvestite”, a mad scientist, cannibalist, space alien, and last but not least a song and dance director. The film is as ridiculous and campy as it is a profound, provocative statement on the queer stereotypes in the horror genre. As Kendell Cooper says in their article from FSU, “Frank N. Furter is a crazy, hypersexual cross-dresser, Brad and Janet are “victims” of Frank N. Furter and the other flamboyant personalities in his castle, and all the castle residents are quite literally from another planet. But by leaning all the way into these stereotypes, they take on a consciousness that creates an element of subversion. The result of this is a massive queer following that feels seen and heard in a real way despite the outlandish nature of the film.” Many horror movies can hint at and be heavily influenced by society’s views on queerness, but The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a timeless, unapologetically queer film that directly addresses and celebrates the inherent queerness in horror.

The movie just *existing* is profound, both when it came out and now.

Other thoughts:

THE FINAL PART OF THE MOVIE ALWAYS MAKES ME TEAR UP. Like when riff raff opens the theater doors and says “your lifestyle’s too extreme” before killing him…. thats so similar to what real life queers are told. When frank is singing “im going home”, he says “i’ve seen blue skies through tears in my eyes” which i think is meant to talk about how he felt more at home on earth, with the way humans expressed their sexuality and gender presentation (“whatever happened to fay wray dressed in satin….i wanted to be dressed just the same”). He was reluctant to actually go home the entire movie until he literally had a laser pointed at his face.

obsessed with stories that start out silly and stupid and then turn out to be deep and heartbreaking in their beauty. like okay, make me cry at midnight while i reflect on the true meaning of friendship i guess

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Wray Castle and Beatrix Potter

Wray Castle This is Wray Castle, Wray is now owned and looked after by the national trust, Beatrix Potter’s family use to stay here on holiday when she was younger. It is such a beautiful looking building and the view of the lake is fantastic. Beatrix Potter’s family holiday home This is Hill Top Farm in the Lake District and the home of Beatrix Potter. The famous writer and illustrator who…

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12 août - Wray Castle

Ce matin, nous avons fait le tour du lac pour nous garer sur la rive ouest du lac Windermere. Contrairement à l'autre côté, où ont été construits les marinas, les villas et les hôtels, cette rive est beaucoup plus sauvage. Ici, ce sont les arbres qui bordent les berges du lac. Dans une bruine anglaise, nous avons longé le lac vers le nord, en direction du Château Wray, un château gothique dont la visite est gratuite (c'est assez rare pour devoir le signaler!). Nous y sommes arrivées un peu humides, et à l'intérieur du château, nous avons pu découvrir une exposition sur le centenaire de la tentative d'ascension de l'Everest par les anglais Mallory et Irvine. Elle faisait une critique plutôt sévère du colonialisme britannique, et mettait en avant le rôle primordial qu'ont joué les Sherpa, très souvent effacés dans les récits héroïques.

En sortant, nous avons fait un tour par le café pour casser la croute, et à la fin du repas, les nuages s'étaient levés, et nous avons enfin pu voir le soleil. Nous avons repris la route à l'envers, et nous avons découvert les sommets des monts autour de Windermere, que nous n'avions pas vu à l'aller, cachés dans les nuages. Nous nous sommes posées sur une toute petite plage au milieu des arbres, Emilie a lu, je suis allée me baigner.

Nous avons repris la voiture en fin d'après-midi, et avons pris la direction de Kendal, la grande ville du Lake District, à l'entrée du parc national. C'est ici que nous dormirons pour nos derniers jours dans la région.

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 Hawkshead to Wray Castle - Lake District by Bob Radlinski

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WRAY CASTLE - ENGLAND

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Birthdays 5.2

Beer Birthdays

Bruce Paton (1955)

Anders Kissmeyer (1956)

Brian Hunt (1957)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jerome K. Jerome; English writer (1859)

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; actor, wrestler (1972)

Pinky Lee; burlesque entertainer (1907)

Charles McCabe; writer (1915)

Manfred von Richthofen; World War I flying ace (1892)

Famous Birthdays

Lily Allen; pop singer (1985)

Maury Allen; sportswriter, actor (1932)

Christine Baranski; actor (1952)

David Beckham; English footballer (1975)

Theodore Bikel; singer, actor (1924)

William Camden; English historian (1551)

Naomi Campbell; model (1970)

Vernon Castle; dancer, actor (1887)

Catherine the Great; Russian queen (1762)

Bing Crosby; singer, actor (1904)

Connie Crothers; jazz pianist (1941)

Thomas Aloysius Dorgan; cartoonist (1877)

Leslie Gore; pop singer (1946)

Lou Gramm; rock singer (1950)

Lorenz Hart; composer, lyricist (1895)

Theodore Herzl; Zionist (1860)

Hedda Hopper; gossip columnist (1885)

Englebert Humperdinck; singer (1936)

Elijah J. McCoy; inventor (1843)

Lorenzo Music; voice actor (1937)

Novalis; German writer (1772)

Michael Rabin; violinist (1936)

Alessandro Scarlatti; composer (1660)

Benjamin Spock; baby doctor, writer (1903)

Donnatella Versace; fashion designer (1955)

Jenna von Oy; actor, country singer (1977)

Link Wray; rock guitarist (1929)

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Morning everyone, hope you are well. First light breaking across Wray Castle and Windermere towards the Fairfield Horseshoe. Only built in 1840 by a retired surgeon from Liverpool. Was also used as a summer holiday home by Beatrix Potters family! Have a great day.

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📸 by Rod Hutchinson @lakesrhino