tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post7606381383165029793..comments2024-03-17T20:54:05.830+00:00Comments on Adullamite: The Other Big Town Trip.Adullamitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-42461201235227335582013-08-18T13:18:13.032+01:002013-08-18T13:18:13.032+01:00Jenny, Well Mary has not been into the big towns b...Jenny, Well Mary has not been into the big towns but did show herself here. I see little change, one small opening for new shops and that's all. I wonder where the cash went?<br /><br />Max, A BBC programme from Detroit said some ten car factories once stood there, now there is one. The city was huge and has gone bankrupt so there is no officialdom! Sad state. Much of WW2 weaponry came from there.<br /><br />Jerry, I think you mistake me for someone from Aberdeen!<br /><br />Lee, In places where there are old buildings there are often things hidden in nooks and crannies.<br /><br />Fly, Thank you, you are a woman of taste! :) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-35031377696903299932013-08-18T06:32:14.083+01:002013-08-18T06:32:14.083+01:00Looking up in San Jose gives great rewards...as lo...Looking up in San Jose gives great rewards...as long as it is interspersed with looking down to avoid falling into a manhole whose cover has been spirited off to the scrap metal merchants.<br /><br />I very much enjoyed the results of your photographic foray.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-2151017898076906742013-08-18T03:26:48.126+01:002013-08-18T03:26:48.126+01:00Maybe there is a giant black hole that the buses f...Maybe there is a giant black hole that the buses fall into; never to be seen again...the buses, not the hole!<br /><br />I don't know what it's like for your farmers over there or up there...but I don't begrudge any help given to ours here in Aus. They battle on continuously; fighting cheap imported produce from elsewhere (from places that use suspect methods) on top of droughts, floods, fires. I try my hardest at all times to buy only local Aussie produce. At least I know our farming methods are safe. <br /><br />Same applies to seafood. I won't buy any seafood that comes from Asia and surrounds.<br /><br />You are so right when you say about "looking up" when out and about. You can be in for some pleasant surprises by doing so; other than walking into people or lamp posts, that is! <br /><br />This particularly applied when I was back living in Gympie prior to coming here to the "hill". There are still some great old buildings lining the main street of town(or were when I was there 11 years ago).Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-20981542371416926622013-08-18T02:43:54.900+01:002013-08-18T02:43:54.900+01:00I have heard many a story about just how much Engl...I have heard many a story about just how much Englishmen love their ewes, but I never imagined that there would be a hotel built to accommodate romantic trysts. Of course, it was a different time... Being a true Scot, would you and your companion for the evening have been welcome?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349087080262856079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-32513112376409959002013-08-17T23:32:33.953+01:002013-08-17T23:32:33.953+01:00I haven't had nearly enough. I really like all...I haven't had nearly enough. I really like all your pictures. The abandoned/unneeded car park reminds me of how fast our "civilization" can be reclaimed by nature. In Detroit (a dying city in the state I was born and raised in) with half the population fled to the suburbs, the deer and other animals have returned to live in the midst of the dying and overgrown city. Indeed, beaver have returned to the Detroit River they say. Beaver and other fur-bearing animals were what attracted the French to the area when the fort was first built in the 1700s.<br /><br />I think Detroit was once the 4th largest city in the U.S. when booming and still making cars in the 1950s.<br /><br />Interesting post. I liked the statues.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16539163.post-27422101697922474532013-08-17T21:54:42.641+01:002013-08-17T21:54:42.641+01:00Do you think it might also be nice to return the c...Do you think it might also be nice to return the car park to nature, or allotments which I am told are in short supply?<br />What a lovely lamb on that building. Just as well it hasn't been messed up. <br />You mean Mary Portas hasn't been braying around about your high street? Mind you I NOT know why more towns don't use these assets, they are often in the most interesting (oldest) bits of town and they just don't bother to sort them out. Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.com