Such strange weather we are having this month, it varies between ‘sunny & cold’ and ‘raining & mild’. The same weather front that brought snow to Washington, USA, brought heavy rain to us here in the milder South of England on the 26th and 27th January. Appointments were necessary so we travelled out when it was just drizzling, waited out a downpour in Bournemouth before returning home to Southampton when it ‘calmed.’ As a car passenger on the A31 I took these snaps:
SNIPS & SNAPS 
That looks like the day we went to town to spend Christmas vouchers. We parked behind East Street and got as far as Costa on the High Street before giving up. Town was almost empty and we were the only people daft enough to be out so we had Costa all to ourselves.
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Fag Butt – the English know how to name things with brilliance, be it Hancock’s Bottom or Piddle Wood or Fag Butt…
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Fags are cigarettes; butt comes from an old archery term. I felt a need to add that in case anyone from the US thinks it may be derogatory towards someone’s sexual orientation! But yes you are right, we down-size names instead of elevating them. When I lived in Spain I was explaining to my Australian neighbour that the Spanish name for his beautiful multi red tipped plant was “lagrimas de amor” (tears of love). “We call it cigarette ends back in Oz” he informed me.
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😀 The building is certainly the colour and shape of a fag butt – but over here we would probably call it something like “The Auckland Woolworth’s Memorial Tower”!
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Good ol’ Woolies
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You were fortunate. A lot of the roads that way were flooded Wednesday night.
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I know – a colleague of ours ended up in a ditch between Burley and Brockenhurst.
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Not a pleasant experience, I’m sure.
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We had the same rain today in Halifax.After about three hours it turned into driving snow. I went out in the rain but stayed home for the snow.
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Thanks for the link. I remember going to see that film in the cinema – makes me feel old. Great tune.
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Me too. I had a horrible cold. My mom said if I went to the movie I had to go to school the next day. I went to school and spent most of the day lying on my desk.
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ha ha
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That building really does look like a cigarette butt.
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Yes the City Gateway (its real name) was shortlisted for the annual Carbuncle Cup recently. The award, run by Building Design Online, recognises the worst examples of architecture in the UK. The winner was “walkie-talkie” a building in London that looked like a mobile phone: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34116610
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Was the Carbuncle Cup inspired by Prince Charles’ comment about that square building in York being “a carbuncle on the face of York?” I took a photo of it when I was there – it did look incongruous. But (call me crass) the Fag Butt has a certain appeal. I’ll check out the link.
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I just googled it and you’re correct. The awards started in 2006 following his comment. I certainly wouldn’t mind living in the Fag Butt. It is pretty handy for everything and has its own gym, bar and supermarket etc.
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Very familiar 🙂
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