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:-D :-D :-D :-D Don't you just love people like that?

My children and I were at a game show. This woman barges through us, to a bloke (I presume her husband) shrieking in a very cut-glass voice:

'Don't forget the fotes, dahling!'

We, being polite, tried not to snigger too loudly, but I'm afraid she may still have been in earshot when we exploded with laughter and ended rolling on the ground.

That's what we still, over 20 years later, shriek at each other.

A few years back, friend and I were leaving a point to point. There was quite a queue.
This lad decided to 'cut in'. Unfortunately for him, but much to our delight, there was a straw bale in his way. He thought he could 'nudge' it out of the way by driving full pelt at it. He ended up on top of the thing.
The bloke in a tractor, who was driving past, refused to help him. He had to sit there in his car perched precariously on a hay bale, while the queue of cars he'd tried to 'beat' to the entrance greeted him in various ways :-D

I did take particular interest in the statue of Queen Ann on the market hall(?).

I had been in Kingston where there is one on their market hall and I had stopped to look at it, wondering who it was. A woman next to me was also looking at it and I asked her if she knew who it was. She told me it was Queen Victoria.

I did mention to her that it didn't look like Queen Victoria to me because the hair was not right and it just didn't look like her but the woman insisted it was Queen Victoria and marched off looking important.

She was quite secure in her own knowledge (I think she knew because she had an Aga or something) and I don't look as if know if it is marmalade or Tuesday.

Anyway, I went inside and read the plaque explaining that it was Queen Ann and why she was up there.

Of course, if we ever see a statue now, a bloke on a horse, Eros, Queen Victoria, the dirty little sod in Brussels, one of us will always say in a very authoritative voice "It's Queen Victoria!"

Much more cost effective to explore your surroundings :-D

....and I'm a furriner to Sussex - even though I was born there!!

This was how I started looking up at things. There are many wonky windows in Winchester. There's a building (St John's Charity) at the bottom end of town with 1833 in yellow bricks in the red brick (side) wall. Look along and 1833 is on the top of the downpipe. Look further along the street, at St John's House, the windows on the upper storey are all trop d'oeil, including a paint pot! Bit scruffy and in need of tarting up now, but magnificent 20 years ago. :-D

Do you know, I didn't even know that was there!

I believe, on the edge of the golf course.
Drove past it a few years ago with my sister.

Just googled:
The mill body was reduced in height to its present 2 stories around 1954 by Whades (Sussex) Ltd

Probably nearer 1955/56 aided by my mum!!

Another site says:
In 1962 the mill was found to be infested with death-watch beetle and the top was dismantled.

Naa!!

Another site:
The windmill was vandalised by having the sweeps, cap and a large part of the tower removed.

Hmmmmm...... looks up at the ceiling and whistles....

There appear to have been more than one windmill in Climping/Clymping!

Where is the windmill at Climping?

You could go to Climping and admire the windmill. It used to have a domed top, until my mum felt cold and built the fire up a bit too much! :-(

The family lived there before I was born, so it wasn't for my benefit.
I think they were re-located to a house Worthing, where mum could do less damage, and I was born :-D

The only British cathedral visible from the sea then.

The Holy Family Cathedral in Kuwait can easily be seen from the sea.

Ely Cathedral was built at a time when the Fens were a vast area of marsh and brackish water merging softly with the sea. Even now early on a hot summer's morning it can be seen from a distance floating in the morning mist.

The Fens and the wetlands of eastern England from Spurn Head to Sheerness have some of the most beautiful landscapes and evocative places in Britain. It is sad that so few people have ever heard the booming call of a bittern.

I am usually in here.

One day Sharron :-D

But in the meantime, you can peruse boot scrapers, post boxes, downpipe tops oh - and coal holes wherever you are :-D

sharron... that cracks me up about the diesel....

but u go for it girl..

If I put petrol in the car it will cost me ever so much, it's diesel.

I wouldn't get far either, no passport.

Have only just been paid something after five weeks. Wouldn't be able to spend much.

When the time is right I will do it.

Sharron... put petrol In the car.. pack a case and book a hotel and go.... you never know what tomorrow may or may not bring.....

No, it's just one of those that is strapped to a telegraph pole.

Another totally useless fact for you. There is a point, or there was, on the Pagham Banks around the harbour where you can see seven churches within about ten yards.

Church Norton,Sidlesham, Donnington, Hunston, North Mundham, Pagham and Chichester Cathedral (the only cathedral visible from the sea).

Now you are wondering how you ever managed without that knowledge aren't you?

Is the post box a hexagonal shape?
There is one in Folkestone like that.

A small postbox on a pillar in the country a few miles from here featured on the Post Office issue stamps in recent years.

It's good to notice these things............................

Gwyn

Strangely enough there is very little written about animal pounds.

I know this because we have what is supposed to be a preserved pound in the village but I think it is something I think more exciting so I tried to get some information about them.

There is also a Victorian post box in our village. They are still about.

Maggie
I will now have to check drainpipes when I'm out and about.!
What a pity I haven't looked in on this site for a few days, I could have had a fine old time yesterday investigating the back streets of Canterbury.

After grandson had an I-Spy book years ago, I always notice foot-scrapers outside old houses.

Gwyn

Sharron - get a life :-D Go and see what YOU want to see - that's a life :-D :-D :-D


Personally, I like the tops of downpipes, you know, where the drainpipe meets the gutter. The interesting ones are usually quite old, created by plumbers in the original sense of the word, but for some strange reason, very little information about them. Nowhere can I find information on a town/village with a plethora of interesting downpipe tops.

There's a particularly lovely one in Salisbury, decorated with ducks.