Puzzling British Road Signs: Part 1

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Street Art

Brighton is a lovely old town with some outstanding Regency and Victorian architecture, but it's also a vibrant university town, full of young people. And there is some fantastic street art.

Godawful Shoes

These are poor quality pictures because they were taken through the window, but if you look you can see some of the godawful shoe styles that are all over here. Stiletto heels look like torture devices, true, but at least they are graceful and elegant looking and do wonderful things for your legs and posture. These heavy, strapped and platformed clunkers are neither graceful nor elegant and they do terrible things to your legs, by cutting them off at the ankle.

View from Hotel room Window

In memory of my father, who always took pictures of the view from his hotel room window, here is the view from our hotel room. The Pavilion is just up the street on the left, you can kind of see the tops of some of the spires through the trees. This was actually taken a couple of days ago, and the trees are much more fully leafed out, now.

Seagull Behavior

The COG and I are enjoying the gulls here in Brighton. Residents complain about the noise and the bustle, but I love them. I love their raucous sound and I love their bully boy aggressive behaviour.

Yesterday we watched some girls on a park bench feeding crumbs to pigeons. The gulls showed up, squawking and swaggering and demanding their share. I noticed, though, they didn't actually displace the pigeons. They made a lot of noise, but their behaviour actually seemed pretty polite, for birds.

One of the seagulls was a juvenile, like the picture here, which is from the internet. He was as big as the adult gulls, but still spotted brown. His behavior was particularly interesting. He assumed a different posture, with his neck pulled back and his beak open and up - like a baby bird in a nest - and he made a high baby squeaking sound. He wasn't any more successful than the other birds, though, the girls on the bench didn't seem to understand.

Random Pictures of Brighton

The famed Brighton Pavilion, built by the Prince Regent in the early 19th century and the place where (the fictional) Judith Taverner and Lord Worth both realize that the other one doesn't hate them as much as each had feared since their Big Scene in Crutchfield, in Georgette Heyer's, Regency Buck.

And the famed Brighton Pier.










And Spring flowers near the Pavilion.

The Bride Photographing the COG Photographing...

I snapped this of the COG as he was photographing the Brighton Town Hall, where we were married a long long time ago. At least, we were married in the Registry Office, and this is where the Registry Office is, so we kinda think it must be where we were married. Neither of us actually remembers, though we are sure it's the same place where Lawrence Olivier was married.

And we remember the ceremony - a civil ceremony. The person who married us said "Do you promise to stay married as long as you want to? Sign here." And so far neither of us has not wanted to.