> > > Now, they're fencing off river and canal harbours in the German and > > Belgian hinterlands. Roll out the barbed wire and bring up the CCTV > > cams! No more loopholes for those nasty terrorists to > capture a river > > barge and set sail to cross the seas! > > Our port was fenced off years ago after a kid suffered a nasty > (fatal) accident. > > Today, when I was biking around the hills, I heard a large explosion
> and thought for a moment that the big fuel store there had > exploded. > It turned out to be the sonic boom of a meteor, which I > unfortunately > didn't see. > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3794985a10,00.html > > Getting back on topic, I like the photo, but I'm not overly keen on > the featureless black thing dominating the background at upper-right. > I spent much of the weekend cycling around towpaths on the canals and navigations in London. They are a little-known jewel in the heart of a big city. One of the great things about them (which I failed to photograph) is that they are a microcosm of modern London. Against the backdrop of typical, cliched Victorian canal works, locks, painted narrowboats, swans and submerged supermarket trolleys I saw a group of Muslim women veiled head-to-toe in black (on a bright sunshiny day) with metal grills across their eyes, sitting around having a picnic with their very Western-looking children. Along the towpath came a family of Orhodox Jews, also dressed top-to-toe in black, with hair in ringlets, and the wife wearing a wig. And you know what? They didn't try to kill each other or blow anyone up. Regards, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
