Category: Time
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11.12.11.12.11
Just recording the time! Twelve minutes past eleven, on the eleventh of the twelfth eleven. This time and date combination won’t happen again for a hundred years! Well, after the time and date combination tonight, that is!
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Who links the Norseman?
Charing Cross is an area of London that denotes the junction of Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in central London. It is so named after a monument that was built in the late Thirteenth Century by King Edward I in memory of his late wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was one of twelve that…
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Snowflakes and Shooting Stars
As I was replying to the comments on my previous posts, I was also watching the WordPress snow make its journey downwards from the top of my screen, to the bottom. I’m not saying that I have a short attention span or anything Now, where was I? Ah. That’s right! Ahem. Yes, I was watching…
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Storm Front
Blustery winds and teeming rain Torrents of water flow The roads are more like rivers Swirling and weaving as they go Trees are almost bent in two As the gale-force wind howls by Raindrops pound the ground below From the dark and turbulent sky Visibility is virtually nil The road ahead is grey The wind…
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Snow!
I was rudely disturbed from my sleep at just before twelve thirty this morning by an almighty explosion just outside Aquatom Mansion. I shot out of bed with break-neck speed and peered through the bedroom window, expecting to see a scene of carnage and devastation. But things looked normal. Another rolling round of thumpa-thumpa-thumpa sounded,…