Adsense is Evil
Well – if you will take quantity over quality – AdSense is full of shite!
HMS Victory – Portsmouth – sent in 1955
HMS Victory, Portsmouth – sent to Swindon in 1955 – another postcard the seems to contain the sort of message that would today be sent via a text or an email. Click more to see the full message.
Kindness of strangers (and victims)
A victim gives his mugger his coat – a true story about a damascus style revelation
Good Luck from Southsea – 1964
I love this – Good Luck from Southsea – with a helpful black cat (in a bow tie). What more could someone left at home want as a message from the holiday makers. I think it was sent in 1964 – to Langley Burrell in Chippenham, Wiltshire.
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Vicious, Ruthless, Evil, Winner, Brit
Piers Morgan wins the US Celebrity Apprentice beating Trace Adkins into second place
The Sunken Gardens, Westbrook, Margate
Happy Easter Monday if you’re reading this on the day its posted, you might be heading out for some fun today, maybe even a trip to the seaside and a game of crazy golf – this, is the postcard for you!
This austere card is of The Sunken Gardens in Westbrook – which is near Margate in Kent apparently. Whilst I was researching this post card I discovered that the area is now a miniature golf course, but more amazingly – there is a British Minigolf Association where you can join their forums and discuss ‘all things crazy golf’. Perfect – you’ll find me hanging out there a lot from now on.
Update 1 : So apparently Andrew and Amara were walking there just today, and it is definitely NOT a crazy golf course (although there are some nearby) – thanks to Andrew and Amara for correcting my poor research! I hope it wasn’t too cold or windswept there today.
Update 2 : Andrew found some more recent photos of the place – over here on flickr
The card was sent to Mead in Eastbourne in 1954. Click more to read the full message.
Things that the US makes complicated #2
Popped out from my hotel this morning to buy a few CD’s, managed to find some interesting bits, but listening to them is much harder than it should be.
I mean – how difficult is it? You come home, get a fingernail under the cellophane wrapper and then pop open the jewel case to get your new shiny silver disc out – and away you go… right?
Wrong – not in the US, because here – they put ANOTHER sticker, with a barcode over the top edge of the CD – like in the picture above. This is a different kind of of wrapping to get access to…after 3 minutes trying to lift an edge up with my non-existent mans finger nails, I then resorted to a pen, which promptly broke. I ended up making a tear in the sticker with my nail-clippers and then painstakingly peeling the sticker off.
How BLOODY stupid is that extra sticker – why do you need two layers? Grrr…
I daren’t open the Lizz Wright CD pictured above, in case I lacerate myself and bleed to death in the Hyatt.
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