Leisurely Scribbles II

Paul Theroux - Kingdom by the sea contd:

the first bathing machine in the world appeared at Margate - it was a changing room on wheels and, pushed a little distance into the sea it preserved a prudish swimmers modesty! ................I climbed out of Margate in the rain.............and started my tour around the Kingdom's coast...........................only four miles from Margate and it was the England of fresh paintand flower gardens and tall chimneys.....................this road smelled of private schools. He passed by the 'jugs of tea for the beach' sign - he headed off for Ramsgate! [ a somewhat less cockneyfied version of Margate!]

 

advise for a healthy life?

 

Oh I do love Cohen.

 

juset finished watching "Killing Eve" end of season 2 - wot a fascinating story and plots - RJ - you must find it quite fascinating?? season 2 finishes with eve shot in a roman ruins by villanelle

 

beautiful acoustic guitar playing! even Cohen voice was better in his younger days

 

I heard a busker singing Alleluia today. He was so good, I cried.

 

did you drop a coin in though?

 

looking around, i was thankful for gardens. but i do wish people would have more imagination then to try to build square houses.
what happened to humans was terrible, but they did do it to themselves.
i do wish people wouldn't keep saying how sad it is that they're gone. for one thing, it isn't, and for another, they live on in us, who are, after all, their descendants.
they left behind so much for so few of us, how can anyone say we're not all rich.
sure a lot of their infrastructure will never be restored to the scale it once was, but even if there were enough of us who wanted to, there still aren't enough of us to really need most of it.

most of the old knowledge was never lost. just the scale of activity. granted some people will never trust the idea of anything complex, believing that to have been the cause of their fall.
but most villages aren't completely adamant about it. and some are even building infrastructure, scaled down to our needs and available resources,
(to which the ruins provide abundantly)

 

Hi themnax welcome to this small corner of the universe - leisurely scribbles II - sorry you missed leisurely scribbles I but that was in another lifetime and universe!

 

Oh dear what has happened to this lovely thread.
I will help after my holiday.

 

don't worry CG_ we now have three threads all intertwined _ CP- LEISURELY SCRIBBLES AND the new BANTER place with Kenny!

In relationship to your trip to Southport::

In 1983 Paul Theroux caught the train from LIverpool to Southport and said......................."the train to Southport was a busy branch line because the whole 19 miles of coast that was designated Merseyside was inhabited by Liverpool's commuter........." - as a kid born and brought up in the pool I was taken occasionally to New Brighton and Southport and always thought they were magical places that I sometimes wished I could live in but it was always only a dream and stayed that way!

 

What a spectacle Donald duck trumpy is making in UK _yes he loves pomp and ceremony sometimes and other times he likes to insult lord mayors and try to interfere with the machinations of UK politics! _ he"s a buffoon!!

 

sign of the times! _ in the 50's in Liverpool UK I could wander all over the city and all suburbs in complete safety - in the 80's Paul Theroux felt fear in the exact suburb I used each day for high school - he ventured into it during the day with some discomfort but as dusk descended he scurried out with fear..........P. Theroux - The Kingdom by the Sea!

 

Paul Theroux contd: ...........6miles/9miles out along the coast from L'pool to Soutport...................the commuters got off the little train and walked home through the pink and purple lupins. and then 40 min after leaving L'pool we arrived at Southport..............one of the rainiest places in Britain and with a promenade quarter of a mile from the beach..............and at low tide a mile along the beach to the water.

He stayed at a boarding house where the madam of the house was continuously on all fours seemingly looking for toys or washing the carpet but to Theroux it seemed in ape terms she was continuously presenting herself to him!

 

Yeah about 7.5 miles there.

 

where??

 

Well you said about 6 to 9 miles and I thought...

 

oh yea good guess - you should read the rest about Southport -so fickin depressing - must have been much more fun where I was in L'pool7 beside Kensington Park?

 

Yeah, that sounds about right.