As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I made a quick trip to Woking last week and thought that I'd take some pictures to show you. However, Woking is a pretty boring town, most of the old buildings demolished to make way for modern shopping malls, similar to those seen in their thousands all over the country. So for now I thought I'd show you these and try to find some other stuff when I have more time:
These sculptures represent
The War of the Worlds, the novel by
HG Wells which is set in local surroundings, Horsell Common being where the Martians landed. Interestingly, the story begins with the narrator visiting an observatory in
Ottershaw, home to the
Ottershaw Players!
Then we have this building, an office block which replaced the Regal (?) cinema. The name always strikes me as very glamorous and perhaps a bit out of place.
Finally, we have this structure, still being built, spanning the road by the railway station.
I
think it's a solar panel device but I'm not sure. It is fairly attractive in its own way, all shiny and sparkly.
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Poor little wounded soldier. I did offer to give him a plaster or an eyepatch but he was not amused!
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I read recently that a restaurant has opened in Pisa, in the local high security jail, Fortezza Medicea.
Most of the staff are murderers and the head chef, 17 years into his sentence, said that when he entered the prison he couldn't cook but now he produces 5 course meals and "I get no complaints". It is very popular and people have to book well in advance to dine under the gaze of guards behind the 20m high walls with watchtowers, searchlights and security cameras. But they are serenaded by Bruno, a pianist doing life for murder.
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Another piece was the story about councillors in Atlanta who want to be the first major city to tackle 'offensive dressing' by banning low slung, oversize, underwear revealing trousers.
At a recent meeting the audience was divided between young and old in scenes described as 'nothing like it since rock and roll'. A 76 year old member of the audience volunteered to start a 'belt brigade' to patrol the streets looking for inappropriate trouser heights.
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Just to finish - some pictures from my garden this week:
A place to sit
Fairy corner
Papyrus in the pond
Parakeets
Heron looking for his lunch
Victor
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