It is a
nuisance to me that prices are not displayed in shop windows.
I have
visited 13 out of the 39 bridges in Central Park . If I run out of bridges, I may start on
statues
Several
days ago I was watching cars going in and out of a parking garage . The garage
had a second doorway that the attendants sometimes used to get cars in and out
from. When closed it had a sign saying ‘No Parking’ Fair enough. Underneath it
said ‘This is an active driveway’. I
know what they mean, but sounds funny to me.
We would say ‘in use frequently’
or something. Then yesterday I saw one better. I passed in the bus an
‘active’ cemetery. Again – people
visiting frequently – but I had visions of corpses having zumba classes in the middle of the night.
Some info
on Central Park from the brochure:
First major
landscaped public urban park in the US
Designed by
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
who won a competition to design it in 1858.
Constructed
in 1858 to 1873.
843 acre.
800m by 4 km
A few days ago in a café at lunch time an old
guy sat next to me and ordered a martini. He specified the brand of gin, how
many twists of lemon, in a wine glass not a martini glass ( I donot blame him,
martini glasses are hard to hold) , ice in a separate glass with a spoon. He sounded exactly like Woody Allan.
Apparently,
when Nelson Mandela was in prison in the
1970’s , no books except a few bibles were allowed. One inmate convinced a guard that his copy of the Complete works
of William Shakespeare was a ‘Bible by William Shakespeare’. This book was
passed around the inmates for years. They signed their favourite passages with
initials and a date. The passage that Mandela signed and dated 16 dec 1977 was from Julius Caesar : “
“Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the
wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to
me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that
death, a necessary end.
Will come
when it come.”
The Gatsby
era costumes I saw in Brookes Bros were the actual ones from the film ‘Gatsby’
to be released soon here.
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