bmet, if you check the Wiki page, there should be some links to webcams place on Pier Hill if I am not completely mistaken and if you search for 'Southend on Sea', there should be quite a few links popping up. I distinctly recall one about the 'Kursaal', it used to be one of THE venues here. Everybody played here. Hendrix, Procul Harum, who actually come from Southend, Dr Feelgood, lots and lots of really good bands.
Sadly, these days it is a bowling alley. Nice, but nothing like it used to be but then, London is only a hop away and competing with the entertainment offered there must be really difficult. Still, I miss the place from way back when I first lived here in the late 70s and early 80s.
I have only ever lived in one country where the Olympics were hosted and that was in '72 for the games held in Munich, but I don't recall the country going all out on a gigantic spending spree like Britain is doing at the moment. Not that I find the least wrong with that, it is something that will (fingers crossed) give people hope and a guiding light in the difficult times we are in and that can't be a bad thing.
And allthough I am not really the greatest sports fan, even I am beginning to catch the 'Olympic bug' you might say, especially when you listen to the Anthem, which I thought was truly stirring stuff.
What is rather annoying are some people commenting on articles published by our local paper. One guy went so far as to say that every Muslim on this planet was conspiring to attack the games and that nobody but white people should be allowed to participate. Now THAT is bad, real bad. That is the worst EDL (English Defence League) propaganda you can possibly come up with.
Let's face it, Britian wasn't all made great just by white Englishmen, like it or leave it, over its long history it has always been the influx of other cultures that helped put the great in Great Britain. I wish those people had a little more of a clue about their countries own history.
Anyway, once I have done the washing up, mopped up all the water in the back hallway, we've been having massive downpours here that got into the back of the house and fed the cats, I'll have a quick look if I can find those links I mentioned.
Sorry to hear about your wives condition. My wife has been suffering from both a degenerative spinal condition and a polyneuyropathy, basically the dying off of nerves. These days she can barely feel anything when touching the outside of her thighs and nobody has found the underlying cause over the past 18 years.
Anyway, nice talking to you and all my best wishes for your wife.
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