Misc

Nice 'muriel' at the entrance to the carpark at Benest's of Millbrook.







A converted lavs cafe in the Parade Gardens.







I bet the tourists are impressed by rusty chains...









.. and frankly dangerous bins...








.. near the Steam Clock.







One for sorrow...









King of the Castle happy hens...










.. and a happy puss on a rug.

The Weighbridge Area

I don't see what the problem is with keeping this place known as The Weighbridge. It used to be one large open area with a weighbridge there! Just because it's divided up now with a road in between where the weighbridge was, that's no reason to abandon a name we all use.


A brightened white-sky version, to make it easier to experiment - ever wondered what it would look like with just the historic fort up there?
If it looked like that today, would it be credible to propose developing a 200 year old Napoleonic Fort into a modern leisure center?!



Left a bit - boules area...







.. left again, paved area in front of museum and Royal Yacht Hotel...






.. left again, including Mulcaster St.







.. left some more... Liberation Square a bit quieter than my pic last time during the celebrations.

Liberation Day

"Street Party", stalls and entertainment at the Weighbridge...







.. with big screen.







It's a good setting for such an event...







.. closer.






Very kind of them to put a scaffold viewing platform there for me :)








.. Liberation Square from there...







.. still busy after the ceremony...








.. the statue.








The Pomme d'Or.







.. right a bit, big screen in front of the Royal Yacht...







.. closer.








.. farther right..








.. closer...






.. and closer.







Seems to have been a well attended popular event.







Not often I do nothing to a pic except resize :)








Up Mulcaster St...









.. the Lamplighter.

Unhelpful blogger.com!

"Blogger will be unavailable Monday (5/11) at 2:00AM PDT for about 10 minutes for maintenance."

Err, blogger.com... we don't all live in the PDT zone you know!

Instead of wasting my time scrabbling around trying to find out what the hell the current PDT time is....

Wouldn't it be helpful to specify that time in UTC, or localise it for my time setting, or provide a list of major time zone examples, or provide a link to a site that actually tells us that the current PDT time is (without needing a stupid extra plug-in for line of text like the top link Google gave me!) and then cancel the message after the event?

It's not even simple to find a place to make this point. The support forums are a waste of time.

* sigh *

Wood-carved figures

These have been on display near the font in the town church...







.. closer.

- They travel with their creator Robert Koenig around the globe as the 'Odyssey Tour'...






.. and a new one has been carved over here, to be unveiled tomorrow (Liberation Day).








.. closer.





I squashed it a bit and some of them look almost right :)

For more info, see Robert Koenig's website www.robertkoenig-sculptor.com/

Boat Show weekend

They're busy putting on a show this weekend...








.. around the harbour at St.Helier.








.. closer... sunshine here but that's a nasty dark cloud over there...







.. closer.. a line of exhibit tents on the New North.







The Lord Nelson of the Jubilee Sailing Trust...







.. a nice big HMS at Elizabeth Terminal...








.. closer...









.. nice missiles...








.. and an impressive looking gun.







Aft






Meanwhile at the Weighbridge...

.. some lads play with their boules....






.. while some kids get rolled around inside a large one.

A new look

'New Look' in the process of replacing Woolworths...









The other doors in Halkett Place...







.. have now been removed (I guess there are enough fire exits?)








Bhs has a new neighbour.







The doors behind the young lady here have just been removed today and the shopfront brought forward on this side.








Looking down King Street...







.. going for the long zoom 'foreshortening effect'.







Bonus pic today (before it started raining), in Queen Street, featuring the other major UK chain of the old Big Three (BHS/Boots/Woolies).