Boadicea's Chariot

Not a small painting

Well this has caused a bit of controversy down here.

The ANC aren’t happy, late on Friday, the party issued court papers seeking to interdict the gallery and City Press newspaper, which first published a picture of the painting. The matter will be heard at the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday (tomorrow.)

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For those who might have missed it, fascinating. Windsor, May19, 2012.

Have to admit that back in ’75 I was more into Sabbath, Heep, Purple and the like but wherever I went I’d here this………

Thanks for the memories

Ha ha, check out 1:06

All from parentsshouldnttext .com there’s hundreds of them, here’s a small selection.

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It was JM’s post with his London bus picture (here) that got me thinking.

In these times of belt tightening, budget cutting and austerity I certainly wouldn’t be happy with what appears to be a very expensive advertising campaign informing locals of what they already know!

London bus

There is apparently also a ‘tube campaign’ and billboard ads… Read more…

I rarely laugh at newspaper cartoons, however

Remember Pseu’s post on Monday lamenting the weekend weather, this was in my Tuesday read……. Read more…

I rather like this pic from The Mail

Lead swan "this must be the wettest drought on record"

It was pure coincidence that shortly after reading The Daily Mail article on the hostage drama in London’s Tottenham Court road that the front page of my Weekend read had a report of a hostage drama at Durban’s Westville Hospital.

I had been intrigued not so much by the London hostage taker or his reasons for his actions but by the response of the British police and their uniforms. (You can click the picture to get a larger view and read the collection of high tech gadgets that this officer is carrying.)

The article tells us -

“Thousands were evacuated, Tube stations were closed and streets locked down over a wide area of London’s West End.

Snipers, bomb disposal squads, nuclear biological and chemical warfare specialists and dozens of armed police were scrambled to the building on Tottenham  Court Road, one of the city’s busiest shopping streets.”

I then had a closer look at our chaps (picture on next page) Read more…

Bokkie, have you changed the password ?.....................................................Yes, love

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