Posted: Fri 11 May 2007 19:13 pm Post subject: Unusual Garden Ornament
What is the most Unusual Garden Ornament you have ever seen? The reason I ask is that a couple in Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire and just 10 miles down the road from me, have just had installed a Garden Ornament with a difference. They have had delivered and placed on some old railway track, an Ex-Kent Coast First Class carriage.
Their house is built on the site of the original station that was once part of the M&GNJR and from what was said on the news today, the track where the coach stands, is as near as possible, on part of the original trackbed. Their grandchildren said that when they told schoolmates that is was going to be put there, they didn't believe them, but now it is a talking point. _________________ Stand by your beds.
A friend of ours has a stone snooker table (complete with grass 'cloth'!)
In the garden of Jeremy Clarkson's house is an English Electric Lightening (very fast aeroplane from the 60's / 70's for those of you who don't know). _________________ "Can you hear me Muller?"
Max speed Mach 2.1 (1,390mph) at 40,000ft..... and it had an initial rate of climb was 50,000 ft per minute!
To put that into perspective; my cessna has an initial climb rate of 1800 ft per minute...a 737 has a 3000 ft per minute!
Maximum height of 87,300 feet (26 600 m) at which level "Earth curvature was visible and the sky was quite dark"!
As you said... what an aircraft! _________________ "Can you hear me Muller?"
My neighbour has a wheelie bin with a pink lid permanently stationed in their front yard - does that count?! (it's the garden waste bin and they use it once a year).
My neighbour has a wheelie bin with a pink lid permanently stationed in their front yard - does that count?! (it's the garden waste bin and they use it once a year).
That's unusual, so yes I feel it does! _________________ Stand by your beds.
I realise this may be a touch of the topic, but it is a Great Pity some of my neighbours didn't have a full-sized, lifelike statue of Cpl. Jones with his bayonet attached on their property and early this morning. Some R. Sole set fire to their wheelie bin in an alleyway between 3 bungalows about 05.30. With Great thanks to another neighbour coming home from night-shift, spotted it and got everybody to safety after calling the fire brigade. I never heard a thing and live about 25 yards away. It is now being treated as arson.
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