My Daily Banana

 

Photo of the Day:

I'm watching you buddy!

Event of the Day:

4th July 1865

Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll is published

4th July 1776

Independence Day in the United States of America

The day celebrates when the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence declaring independence from the United Kingdom
 

Land of the Free,
because of the brave

Birthday of the Day:

4th July 1938

Bill Withers

 

Great rhythm and blues singer; he sang some easy going songs such as Lean On Me

Died on this Day:

4th July 2003

Barry White
 

The man with the deep, deep voice. He couldn't really sing, he mainly talked on his records; the records that were recorded are incredible. His main vocation was writing and producing music, I thank the heavens that he also recorded his own songs. 

His two greatest hits were You're The First, The Last, My Everything and Can't Get Enough Of You're Love, Babe
and the song I like the most
Love Serenade it's very lascivious, part II is the best it's very lingering

Thoughts:

Tuesday at lunch time we had our gymnastics in the firm. At the time it seemed to be normal stretch and moving, but something was different; I can hardly move anymore, my legs are in such pain. I've got a bad case of sore thigh muscles, I cannot believe it; my legs are well trained through cycling and walking, but still the sport on Tuesday was too much. Today there was gymnastics again at lunch time; I had to give it a pass.

Andrea is on her way back to Aussieland, bye Andrea, Jim and Jerry. I hope to see you again in the near future, well maybe in six years when Sylvia and Frazer have their Golden Anniversary. That would be great if we could all get together again, maybe you could make it over also Fraser. We could go on a photo safari through Lincoln and the county. 

Bon Voyage, ich habe euch lieb XXX<3

Look what I found on the web:
16 Abbot Street

Down Michaelgate

Gibraltar Hill
What a contrast modern and antique

I can imagine this house on the Spanish coast,
but not in Lincoln and absolutely not in the Cathedral area.
The architecture is great, the garage spoils the harmony.

Corporation Street
What a beautiful house, it is well kept
Except for the missing sculpture above the door

The Green Dragon
One of my haunts in years gone by.

The Cathedral again, you can't miss it in Lincoln
On the left there's the Drill Hall donated to Lincoln in 1890 by Mr Ruston
 During the typhoid epidemic in 1905 it was used as an infirmary,
one of the happier events: the Rolling Stones appeared here on New Years Eve 1963

Watergate The old factory after the bridge is now an expensive apartment house

Watergate, this used to be Ruston Turbines it's now Siemens

Rosemary Lane
Wesleyan School from 1859
it has two entrances; the gate was the girl's entrance and the infant school, the main entrance was the boy's:
now the house is full of apartments
 

I wouldn't mind a living room with that window
 

The old museum (where it is now?), the library and the Drill Hall 

 That was another view around town, seen anything new?

Bye for today, I have to work.

 

My Daily Banana

 

Photo of today:

The White Rose

 

Event of the Day:

3rd July 1996

The Stone of Scones (the Coronation Stone) was returned to Scotland.
 

 It was stolen from the Scots in 1296 by King Edward I and taken to Westminster Abbey where it was built into a wooden chair which was from there on known as King Edward's Chair the Coronation Chair.

Birthday of the Day:

3rd July 1883

Franz Kafka
 

Try reading his books, they are freaky! I loved the book The Metamorphosis; a boy wakes and discovers, that he has metamophosized into a beetle overnight. It's creepy and funny; read it.

Died on this Day:

3rd June 1971

Jim Morrison
 

One of the members of the notorious 27 Club (musicians that died at the age of twenty seven; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and three years ago the beautiful Amy Winehouse).

The great singer of the group the Doors with songs such as Riders on the Storm and The End

I loved the songs of the Doors, unfortunately when Jim died the group as a group dried with him; this happen with most of the groups that have such a dominant front figure: think of Queen, Cheap Thrills (I know Janis left them long before she died, but when she left them they went back to being a run of the mill psychedelic music group).

Thoughts:

I found it, the gentleman who drove down Steep Hill with a "four-in-hand" (a coach drawn by four horses). This feat was performed by the Member of Parliament for Lincoln the right honorable Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp. He was an MP for Lincoln from 1826 till his death in 1855 with a short break in 1833 and 1834. 

The information was in the introductory of the book "Britain in Old Photographs: Lincoln" collected by David Cuppleditch. The book I bought in the nineties, but only lately have I become interested in it; I just had a look in Amazon UK and there are some used issues available, I found two more paperbacks that I couldn't resist; Lincoln Cathedral in old Photographs and Lincoln: Photographic Memories.

Thanks Kerry for the book you gave me of Lincoln; funny at least fifty percent of the photos are similar to the ones I shot on my photo safari. I could act as a guide for the tourists showing them the points of interest and from where they could take picturesque photos.

Looking down Steep Hill

The Castle, Drury Lane

The Exchequers Gate

There's always scaffolding somewhere on the cathedral

It made me feel small standing next to it.

 

A view from the Exchequer's Gate towards the castle

 

One of the dead pubs, in Rasen Lane
I remember being there with Sylvia and Frazer
For a while Trudy and Rob lived next door, Gordon and I stayed there in 1995 when I came travelled with him to England

Newport Court

Newport Arch it was built in when the Romans occupied Lincoln
It's the only Roman archway in the United Kingdom through cars can drive

Imagine having a view like that from the back garden

Tomorrow I will be leaving the gentry and will be going back downhill to where the factories, dirt, terraced housing where the industrial workers lived.
Bye

My Daily Banana

Picture of the Day:

Event of the Day:

2nd July 2002

Steve Fossett is the first man to fly nonstop around the world in a balloon.

And again the Americans beat the United Kingdom; at the same time Richard Branson tried the same feet, but failed.

Birthday of the Day:

2nd July 1956

Jerry Hall

the second wife of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones from 1990 to 1999. They met in 1977 when Jagger was still married to Bianca. Jerry had four children with Jagger.

Died on this Day:

2nd July 1961

Ernest Hemingway

The poor guy committed suicide at the age of 61. His last novel The Old Man and the Sea published in 1952 won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature one years later. 

The book tells a very cool story about a Cuban fisherman Santiago, who after a period of bad luck where he didn't catch a fish for eighty-four days, gets lucky and catches a mega marlin. It took him three days to reel the fish in, which he then strapped onto the side planking of his boat; while rowing back to land he was continuously attacked by sharks attracted by the fish blood. The first few Santiago managed to kill, but when he arrived back on land only the head, tail and backbone were left of the magnificent fish. He was so exhausted, that he went straight back to his hut to sleep before removing the cadaver. This cadaver moved his fellow fishermen to amazement, the marlin was five metres long and from then on Santiago was no longer seen to be the loser.

The book was filmed with Spencer Tracy playing the part of Santiago. I can't remember it, at the time when it was actual in the cinemas I wasn't into films that were mellow, I needed action. Maybe it would touch my taste of films today. Here's a trailer I found on YouTube:

The Old Man and the Sea

Thoughts:

Oops, I'm in trouble again. We just had dinner and while drying the dishes I praised the magnificent meal that Heike conjured up. I told her how appeased I was; the sauce was terrific, potatoes cooked precisely to the perfect degree of bite and the veggie fingers fried a beautiful golden brown. Oh dear, that was a little overenthusiastic; her reply was nasty. What did I do wrong? Last time I was told off because I finished the meal without even a burp. It's not easy being a man, whatever I do it's wrong; in my next life I'll come back as a dog, they are always loved.

Here are some more photos of my stroll:

Looking up the High Street just after the Stonebow

Your house is waiting for you Fraser

Top of the High Street
There's a café pub at the top:
do you remember it used to be an furniture shop?
The whole front was a window pane: I remember once when I was on the bad stuff standing there at three in the morning, looking at the reflection of the whole length of the High Street until a rozzer broke my dreams and shooed me off.

The Strait
Why that name? It's got a bend in it!

The Strait again,
the flats on the right don't fit in between the historical houses.

The Jews House
 

The beginning of Steep Hill
The barriers at the ends of Steep Hill were placed there after a wild coach ride down the hill. I tried to Google the story but it was not to be found, sorry (I should save the little stories that I pick up, then I could prove what I'm rambling on about)

I praised the guy after he reached the top of the hill, he thought I was making fun of him;
why can't people take a word for a word?

One of the many antiquarian bookshops uphill
If you go left there was the Lincoln Art College where I had many friends back in the sixties-seventies.
I saw Genesis there live in 1970, they were one of the upcoming groups at that time.

Top of Steep Hill
Why they don't close the road down for traffic I can't understand; it's not even a one way street.
I was sat in a café and watched a car and a delivery van pass each other, they used both pathways.

 

Here I end today: there's more to come.

Bye till tomorrow xxx