Will The Crystal Palace,

like the Phoenix rise from the ashes?

first erected in Hyde Park the Crystal Palace was in 1854 rebuilt in a larger form on Penge Common, near Sydenham Hill in South London and stood there until it was destroyed a fire, I have visited the site it stood on many times, there was at one time a car and motorbike race circuit on the site which I visited, plus every year a huge firework display would take place there amongst other attractions, the stone arch ways and some of the vases seen in the above picture can still be viewed today,

but my earliest memory was my father telling when we visited the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs when I was 8 or so years old that he as a boy could remember all of the people in the street where he lived in Plumstead, Woolwich were in the road looking at the flames from the Palace in the far distance, despite 89 fire engines and 400 firemen the blaze totally destroyed the glass structure, but now some good news for Crystal Place, it might be rebuilt, Shanghai-based ZhongRong Holdings, owned by one of China’s richest men, Ni Zhaoxing, a married father of four and self-made businessman said to have a fortune of $1.25billion (£810million), is rumoured to be having talks,


the mayor and the borough of Bromley had been ‘approached by a potential developer keen to redevelop a  large section of the north side of the park’ the spokesman added: ‘discussions between all parties remain  at a very early feasibility stage but the plans do not include any residential development, any fully formed proposal would of course be presented to the public for comment in order to build a consensus on the way forward', a Bromley Council spokesman said: ‘We are committed to improving Crystal Palace park, which remains a jewel not just in Bromley’s, but in London’s crown', what a great idea, I some how feel some thing for the Crystal Palace, living close to it and visiting it so often, for me I hope this idea gathers momentum and the Crystal Palace rises again.

I Thought This Was An Interesting Question Posted On AskReddit,

what is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?

some of the short stories I liked,

I can't move, breathe, speak or hear and it's so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.

There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.

She wondered why she was casting two shadows. After all, there was only a single light bulb.

I just saw my reflection blink.

My daughter won't stop crying and screaming in the middle of the night. I visit her grave and ask her to stop, but it doesn't help.

I have just thought of one,

Opening my eyes I knew I was buried alive in a coffin. I also realised this is why hair and fingernails appear to have grown on corpses that have been exhumed.

well I only had a couple of seconds to think about it!

if you want to read more or add your own visit this page at AskReddit.

First Thing,

and we were off to immigration,

 for my yearly visa,

 in and out in no time, so for breakfast along to Jomtien Beach Road in the Surf Kitchen,

 as I had been on salads for the past few meals, well except last night, I pushed the boat out,

 a chicken sandwich with chips,

 Diana ordered mixed fried rice with an egg,

 the view from our table,

 well I just had to have a pose!

 next stop the fruit and vegetable market that is almost opposite Soi 5 at the new road end,

 we were spoilt for choice,

 there was so much to chose from,

 on the way back we stopped off at the Colosseum,

 it is the new venue for a transvestite show, we am still not sure if it has opened, as there was no signage in front of it advertising times or prices of the shows, but we are sure any day now it will be open,

the afternoon just slipped past, after our evening meal and watching a few shows we settled down to watch some more of Poirot, we enjoyed them so much we watched 4 of them,

Peril at End House

While Poirot is staying at an exclusive Cornish resort, he meets a beautiful heiress whose life is in danger.

The Veiled Lady

Poirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.

The Lost Mine

When a Chinese businessman with a map to a long lost silver mine is found dead in Chinatown, Poirot must find the map and killer.

The Cornish Mystery

Alice Pengelley visits Poirot in London, telling him she thinks she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot arrives in Cornwall the next day to investigate Mrs. Pengelley's charges, he is too late, and finds her dead.

by now it was late so for us so we were off to bed.

One Of The Many Series On Television,

we like watching is Auction Wars,

in case you have not watched it the action takes place when storage units which have been rented fall into rental arrears they are auction off, the series follows the (mis)fortunes of a number of bidders, in a slight change to this format in Long Island, New York in 1989 a small business owner (the business not the man), bought a storage container in a blind auction for $100 he hoped he might be able to double or even triple his money by selling its contents, was he in for a surprise!


inside it was James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car, which featured in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, the good news for him is that it is going up for auction in London where it is expected to reach $1million, it is believed the Lotus was left in storage by the production company which paid for the container for 10 years, but when the payment ran out and nobody came to collect it, it was put up for sale,


now it will go under the hammer at RM Auctions in London on September 9, after James Bond expert Doug Redenius tracked down its owner and confirmed the Lotus's authenticity, Max Girardo, managing director of RM Auctions Europe, said: 'over the years, millions of moviegoers have stared in awe as the Lotus transformed itself into a submarine, and now, perhaps one of them will have an opportunity to own it', what a lucky bid that was all of those years ago!

This Is So Out Of This World,

literally!

yesterday NASA published a new photograph taken on July 19, 2013, by a wide-angle camera on the Cassini spacecraft that shows a view of Earth from the dark side of Saturn, in the photo Earth is 898 million miles away, according to NASA this is only the third time that Earth has ever been photographed from the outer solar system, and there was me trying to take a picture of the moon thinking that was out of this world!

I Have Just Seen A Picture,

of Great Britain's new £10 note,

it appears the activists were calling for more female faces on our national currency, I thought a picture of our Queen on every one was fine, but in a break from tradition Jane Austen has been confirmed as the next face of the £10 note in a victory for campaigners demanding female representation,


Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's former governor, had let slip to MPs that the author of Pride and Prejudice was "waiting in the wings" as a potential candidate to feature on a banknote, and his successor, Mark Carney, confirmed on Wednesday that she would feature, probably from 2017, 'Jane Austen certainly merits a place in the select group of historical figures to appear on our banknotes, Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature', the new governor said,

would Jane be my choice? I have to say not, first amongst great British women must be Boudica, (Boadicea, Boudicca, pick your own spelling), but there is a problem, nobody really knows what she looks like, on to my second choice, Elizabeth 1, (1533-1603) Queen of England and Ireland, she suffers from the same problem, that there are no photographs of her likeness, but then I guess there were not any of Jane either!

As We Arrived Home In The Afternoon,

we will go straight on to today's post,

 we watched a film or two in the afternoon, but in the evening it was glad rags on,

 as we were out with Mr. Tony for a meal,

 to Pan Pan which is located at the crossing of Tappraya Road with Thepprasit Road, 

 before looking at the restaurant Diana just had to take a look at the desserts,

I was looking at the bar!

 we were shown to out table,

 for my starter I ordered a main course of mussels,

 so we all tucked into a few of those,

 naturally we had to have a picture,

 or two taken,

 Mr. Tony went for a pizza,

 Diana had calzone (closed pizza),

 meanwhile I continued with the mussels,

 before ordering our main course,

 we had to take a closer,

 look at some of the desserts,

 there were all so tempting,

 the selection,

 seemed almost never ending,

 and it was!

 lime meringues, they looked delicious,

 did I mention ice cream?

 there was plenty of that too,

 now this is a bit embarrassing, I was the only one of us to order a main course,

 it was described as sliced pork served Italian style, delicious it was too,

 after I finished we made our way to the dessert section,

 talk about spoilt for choice,

 we just did not know what to chose,

 whilst there I took a picture of the oven,

 where I am guessing both pizzas and bread are cooked,

 back to our seats,

 decision made,

 blueberry cheesecake for Diana,

it looked so good I had to try some myself,

 two scoops of rum and raisin ice cream for Mr. Tony,

 whilst I went for a slice of chocolate chip cake,

 'Cheers!',

in the afternoon we watched Enemy at the Gates, we had watched it before, this was what I wrote then, 'essentially a true story of the battle of wits between a Russian and a German sniper, set against the battle for Stalingrad, the two protagonists being the Russian, Vassili Zaitsev, and his German counterpart, Major Konig, but whilst it makes for a good film the Major may not have been there, although Vassili did know the Germans had sent in a 'super sniper' as one of his comrades Morozov was killed and Sheykin wounded, both considered to be experienced, it is still not clear if Major Konig was actually sent, a great film if only for the fact it shows how bloody the battle for Stalingrad must have been',

then after our meal we settled down to watch Top Gear, the Polar Special, great fun as the two teams struggled with icy conditions, then after saying our goodbyes to Mr. Tony we watched a couple of the series that we like, then for us we were off to bed.