Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 18th November, 2024)

Apt name now

If you are wondering what that star is in the sky this morning at twenty five past the clock, it’s the planet Jupiter.
Even with binoculars you might be able to pick out one or two of its moons.

If you are still wondering where this is, take a look on The Album ‘Recently Commented’. You will see a picture of Greenough Street expertly coloured by Keith, the Poo sign is on the gable end of the building behind the Cast Iron Urinals. It looked a lot better in those days!

Me too Colin !

NB for Anne....Where were you in India...did you stay in Bombay or move up country ?

Snooker from the land of Trump.

Helen, I used to work out of Bombay.

Helen, although I never lived in India, when living in Dubai I did visit many time between 1993 and 2002, principally Mumbai, a fascinating chaotic city which I grew to love.
I recall once in the early days going to a restaurant in some obscure part of the city for a evening business meeting with South Korean and Malaysian colleagues, arriving in a Tuk-Tuk and stepping out in my business suite and brief case amongst ram shackle houses and walking across planks over open sewers people stared at me looked like I had just stepped out of a space ship.
I later found out that this obscure primitive place was right beside the Mumbai Stock Exchange. The restaurant was lovely, but I did check both the kitchens and the toilets before I ate. Never in all my time in India did I ever get 'Dehli Belly'.

I pass this advertising sign every time I walk to Tesco.

Never had 'Delhi Belly' whilst in India - oh joy of joys, you don't know what you missed Colin. In the words of Les Dawson when in India and asked if he had visited the Taj Mahal, he replied, "Visited? I've never been off it."
A great majority of Wiganers discovered the wonders of it after eating the house curry at Sweaty Betty's, and even got quite good at solving 50 anagrams from the name Twyfords.

Helen…… We actually lived in Thane, about 25 miles from Bombay/Mumbai. This was in the sixties. I have only had brief visits whenever the cruise ship stopped there. Still just as chaotic, even more so as many of the street names have been changed from English to Indian.

Cyril, the first time I went to India with a Department of Trade Mission, the organisers took us to a restaurant outside of Mumbai, I was ultra cautious on what I ate and drank. By the end of the night half the people fell in and one was found in ditch the following morning near the car park. That was a salutary lessen for me, hence my future caution.

From American Pie to Delhi Belly. Think I’ll stick with a KFC.

I was once deployed to the Maharashtra on a sewerside mission.

I'll look that place up Anne. The reason I asked was that I was born in India....Kanpur, that once upon a time in British India, was Cawnpore.

It would be better if someone removed the P :) Thanks for the photo Colin. I agree re American Pie, I can still recall most of the lyrics or were you just referencing our fame for pies?!

Sorry Colin you did mention Don. Great song.

Helen , did you live anywhere near the Cawnpore memorial that used to be ?

Mark, if My memory is correct The Memorial was/is near the Ganges. We used to go to a place called Massacre Ghat . That was where the wives & children of the British soldiers were given safe passage but when they were in the boats the opposing soldiers opened fire on them.
There are images of the Memorial on Google