There is a gym atop the shopping centre in Ealing Broadway. It even has a swimming pool! I was going there yesterday at lunchtime when I heard the music and then saw some young people dancing on stage among the stalls.
On leaving the gym I heard children's voices singing old patriotic Polish songs. They took over the stage.
Dressed in traditional Polish costumes, the young artists performed in front of the shoppers. Quite a few stopped to listen, and and take pictures, as I do...
As there are only around twenty minutes of this Sunday left here in London, I will not tell you much about my two tubes - train - walk (too much of that, honestly) - train and two tubes again trip to Margate. Despite that and a fit of miserable, wet and brolly-damaging weather by the sea, it was a great day out.
I cultivated my habit of taking pictures from the train.
Look! The sky fell into the river!
A serious bridge on a big river!
Rochester Norman Castle:
And here, what can you see? Yes, from this train you can see the sea!
Reculver from the train. Romans were there, Anglo-Saxons were there, I've been there a few times too!
Dear Wiki has just told me that:
'It is reported that the sound of a crying baby is often heard in the grounds of the fort and among the ruins of the church.[142] Archaeological excavations conducted in the 1960s within the fort revealed numerous infant skeletons buried under and in the walls of Roman structures, probably barrack blocks, from which coins were recovered and dated to 270–300 AD.[143] It is unknown whether the babies were selected for burial because they were already dead, perhaps stillborn, or if they were killed for the purpose, but they were probably buried in the buildings as ritual sacrifices.[144][Fn 29] A baby's feeding bottle was also found, on its side in an excavated floor, and within 10 feet (3 m) of one of the infant skeletons, but it need not have been connected with the burials.'
It also reads:
'Robert Hunt, vicar of Reculver from 1595 to 1602, became minister of religion to the English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, sailing there in the ship Susan Constant in 1606, and probably celebrated "the first known service of holy communion in what is today the United States of America on 21 June 1607."
Well, could we obtain information so easily if it weren't available with a few clicks of a button?
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A seaside golf course:
Good night!
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