Adventures: Posts from June 2007

28 June 2007

26 June 2007

A stroll

I took a walk today to the post office, and i decided to see where the street it was on went. I ended up walking about 4 miles, i think, around Chartham and its environs.

I came across the Chartham Parish Cemetery on the A28, and a grave completely covered in flowers caught my eye from the road. It being a cemetery, i was going to go in anyway, but i was curious about this well-loved person.

It turned out to be the grave of a man named Lee. Lee apparently loved the horses; there was even a wreath from a turf accountancy firm along with a couple of wreaths made into the shape of horses. He was a brother (wreath spelling out "BRUV" - as in "bruvver"), an uncle (one wreath was oddly dedicated to "Uncle Bloke"), and a cousin (many wreaths dedicated to "Best Cuz"), and he liked Elvis Presley, too (2 photos of Elvis made into wreaths).

I looked on the local paper's obituary notices website for a person named Lee, but i couldn't find him.

Anyway, i also took pictures of other things in the cemetery like this awesome gnome on the left, and when i finally made it into Chartham proper, i took a couple of photos of the 13th century parish church, St Mary's.

Find the rest of the pictures i took here.

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25 June 2007

Weird sexless babies

Evian is running a weird ad campaign that involves synchronised-swimming babies. This isn't the exact commercial i have seen on British TV, but it's very similar. The very strange thing is that the babies appear to be sexless (although, the ones in this video look vaguely male)...