I’ll be honest. I’m a massive Wes Anderson nerd. So when I first heard about The Grand Budapest Hotel coming out and saw the actors and actresses who would be in it I actually did a squeal. Yes, I am that sad.
Anyway, I’ll stop myself before I go into a huge Wes Anderson film discussion here. You may be here for hours and I’m sure you wouldn’t want that.
The Arboretum. Sounds fancy doesn’t it? It sounds even more weird with the word Lincoln in front of it. Lincoln? Fancy? HA.
To put it simply, if you didn’t already know, an arboretum is a collection of trees. Wow, a collection of trees, how riveting. Well, actually Lincoln’s arboretum is a rather lovely place.
What comes into your mind when I say the words table top role play? Does it make you think of a stereotypical nerd? I must admit, the first time someone spoke to me about role play, I thought the same.
Okay, perhaps you read this title and your first thought was “what the hell is she talking about?”
Well… if you have happened to take a look in the main building at university, a few of the rooms on the first floor are filled with the weirdest chairs in existence.
We here at Lincoln & That (well, probably just me) like to call them “spaceship chairs”.
They’re pretty snazzy actually (yeah that’s right, I said the word snazzy). They’re basically a version of the plastic school chair but at least two times more comfortable, with a plastic circle underneath to place your bag, an added cup or water holder (ooooh) and a move-able desk. They’re also on wheels, which cause you to want to spin around constantly like you did in Year 9 ICT.
So they may not sound amazing by description but if you’re left-handed like me, university desks for “lefties” are hard to come by. Also come on, just look at the photo below and tell me they aren’t cool.
LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY COLOURS. Photo: thehumansolution.com
The chairs are called Steelcase Node for anyone interested. My fellow writer Emily actually wrote down the brand of them in her notebook because she is incredibly sad.
Anyway, sadly I couldn’t find a picture of them with the cup holder (which is the MUST HAVE). What’s also crap is that our chairs are only in white… look at the colours we could have had. Imagine a rainbow room of them. Oooh pretty.
If you think I’m nuts right now for talking about chairs then take a group of 20 year olds into a room filled with them and you’ll understand what I mean.
It’s that Australian bar. Yes, that’s right.
Richard and I went along to it after a tiring day at university (LOL #thirdyearlife) and found it to be quite pleasant. Continue reading
It’s simple really. Don’t be a dick on Valentine’s Day.
Sooo, you know what Take Me Out is right? That programme with all those cheesy one-liners like “let the apple see the crumble”, “no likey, no lightey” and all that jazz. If you haven’t heard these ultimate corny sayings from good old Paddy McGuiness then there is a wonderful selection for you.
Anyway, last year St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice set up their own Take Me Out event to raise money. The event starred 8 hopefully men and 20 girls on the stage, hoping to win a free meal and date at Nandos. I mean come on who doesn’t love free chicken right?
This year the event came back for a second time. It saw mental dancing, guys strutting their stuff, women doing the splits and backflips; and oh, a guy put a glass eye in his mouth (yes, that DID happen and ew).
We hope you enjoyed our last Lincoln local piece on Mr Tay the vegan tiger man. If you didn’t happen to catch that ‘roaring’ post then look at this for your enjoyment.
It’s a double dose of fabulous Lincoln locals this week. Let me hear you say ooooooooh.
Anyway, today it’s a very well known character, Big Tissue Man, otherwise known as ‘Baggy’.
Well, obviously you do of course.
So yeah, as it says in our wonderful title there. Mr I, Taystayness, or for short, Mr Tay, is a vegan tiger. Yes, you did read that right and your brain isn’t scrambled. He’s a tiger that doesn’t eat meat or any products from animals…
Being a fresher… Well, it’s an exciting experience. You usually live in student accommodation with total strangers and get to know them by getting drunk together. You start your course and realise halfway through the last term that first year counts for nothing in your degree. Yeah, freshers year is one which you’ll never forget; unless that is, you spend the entirety of it off your face…
So, the entire world is currently going mental about New Year Resolutions. “Yeah I’m going to be a completely different person”, “I’m going to be super healthy”, “I’m going to go to the gym everyday”, “I’m on a juice detox for January” etc etc. Yeah, yeah, we get it. New Year new you right?
We at Lincoln & That understand the whole wanting to change thing, but why do all the usual things? Why go jogging when you know you’ll spend most of your morning sat on a bench? Why diet when you know on day 8 you’ll be scoffing a McDonald’s cheeseburger? Here’s a picture just to tease you if you are dieting by the way.
How about trying something COMPLETELY different? You never know what might happen. Here are some of our suggestions for an extreme (we mean really extreme) change:
We hope your New Year resolutions (whether you’re still keeping them or have already broken them) have been made a little more exciting by watching these videos.
It’s here. It’s what all you Tolkien nerds have been waiting for, and don’t worry, it doesn’t disappoint.
The Desolation of Smaug follows on from The Unexpected Journey and follows the dwarves on their journey to obtain the Arkenstone again.
Even though the film is incredibly long (2 hours and 41 minutes to be exact), it’ll keep you entertained all the way through. Expect plenty of battle scenes, and a pop up from Legolas (yes, that beauty), along with a few other characters who were never in the actual book. However, unless you are a Tolkien geek you won’t really notice. The added characters don’t distract from the main story line though, and aside from a short mushy love scene, they’re a pretty good add from Jackson.
We recommend you see the film in IMAX for full effect, both for the background and for the characters themselves. Yeah yeah, the glasses will make your ears kill and the price is quite high but it’s worth it. The orcs are absolutely terrifying as usual (when are they ever not?) and Smaug (who you never actually realise is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) intimidates you a lot more than you expect (I mean come on he’s just a dragon…And the necromancer).
Compared to the last film The Desolation of Smaug seems much more action-filled. It may leave you with a numb arse but you’ll be desperate for The Hobbit: There and Back Again.