Post something just for the heck of it

[pat grimshaw]

^ Yes, I saw 3 lifts. The videographer may be an engineer. Those 'amusement' rides don't look as big as those in the Alton Towers disaster.

The weather look cold and blustery but at least the Palm Trees are surviving.

 

[mikemizanin729]

 

[pat grimshaw]

The wife of the Canadian prime minister is called Gregory.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I've attached a photo of the Vaquita to my signature in the past.

Here's a story about its imminent end. Another species swallowed by the sucking pit of human nature.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/w...lest-porpoise-slips-closer-to-extinction.html

 

[johaninsc]

this is so cool to look at...

 

[rareboy]

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Fantastic piece.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Hot Messaline...

 

[Charon]

^Only GTA fans will get this. At least the ones who played the GTA 3 ERA.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Essex Boy]

Political incorrectness gone mad. Another sand dance.

 

[Charon]

I love it when music fans do this, it's like a music video that could've happened, but unfortunately didn't. Especially when it's a song by a great band like MDC.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Like that Black Mirror episode or Baudrillard etc.

 

[Alistair]

I think I might try to grow a bonsai Japanese maple

 

[Essex Boy]

It's a slow evening on HT so to add a dash of excitement here's an eye-popping slide show of the soft underbelly of Southend-on-Sea. Look out for the Kursaal at 1:43.

Phew! That's enough thrills for one night. I'm off to bed.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ Is that you and your Mum in some of those pictures?

I'm surprised they kept that German name Kursaal during the Great War. Have you been to one of those Italian style Lidos in England?

 

[Essex Boy]

^
Lawks a mercy Pat, you mean you actually watched that? You're patheticker than I am. The only place I ever saw that called itself a lido was a sort of concrete cistern with rusty railings round it in a park in east London.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^
I'm still a little curious that a place called Southend is situated northwest of London.

I know there's an Essex, Sussex and Wessex, a Southampton and a Northampton but is there a Northend in Essex?

(I just went to Google and it tells me there's a Northend in West Sussex)

 

[Essex Boy]

It's the south end of the little town of Prittlewell. When they built the railway line from the City in the 1850s, Londoners started going to the seaside in droves on their afternoon off so Southend grew until it became a town in its own right and Prittlewell shrivelled up.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Make tea properly--no excuses!

The young lady on the right is very pretty, isn't she?

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