I love Palladium and Georgian architecture and I love many features of Poundbury - small stores, small streets winding round, a sense that there is a local community etc etc. However, I also found the town a tad Stepford. A bit too perfect. Felt slightly disconcerting.
However, it's heads and shoulders better / nicer than other concrete grid 'New Towns' such as Harlow and Cumbernauld. I think Milton Keynes has much to commend it but it's not a pretty place IMO. All thos bl**dy roundabouts...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I agree, Georgian Architecture is divine, but when it was built, it wasn't " traditiional " it was modern. Because we've made mistakes like " Harlow and Cambuslang " doesn't mean we have to go back to some pastiche " classical " model. We produce some of the best architects in the world in UK , but a combination of nimbys and blinkered planning departments mean they end up working abroad.
To bring us back to topic I don’t agree that Charles was forced into marriage,as an educated adult man he made choices, he chose to behave badly, to treat Diana terribly and to commit adultery with Camilla for many years. The crown was obviously more important to him than any woman and now he will get it. Nothing I can do about that but I certainly won’t be celebrating it.
Because he would get the crown it was his duty to marry and have children. That was Henry Vlll's problem too, though his behaviour was extreme. Charles went to sea in the Navy and when he came back Camilla had married. He had to find a wife. Old fashioned but that's how it was. Royalty sometimes doesn't have free choices, they have duty.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I can assure you that nobody in the western world envies the UK at the moment. Coronation or not. And please stop with the old chestnut that the monarchy brings tourists.
@coccinella I agree that most people who live outside (and some inside) the UK have a foggy imagination what the UK monarchy is but constitutional lawyers in Europe envy the UK for its very simple way to run the State.
London was the most visited capital in Europe, the Union Jack is a symbol and there are only two people in the world that are known worldwide: the Pope and the Queen.
Constitutional lawyers? Simple way to run the state? Please evidence. I have noticed that you do tend to make sweeping statements. I agree though about foggy imaginations: Brexit is proof of it.
Tourists will keep going to London even without a monarchy, look at Versailles, Venice etc. I would add Putin and Beyoncé to the people known worldwide.
I am not anti monarch, I am just annoyed at cap doffing and mistaking opinions for facts. I have not taken part in the poll because I am not a resident.
I know farmer’s sons of that generation whose lives were like that .., and daughters too for that matter. You married for suitability not love. A bit like arranged marriages in other cultures .., their families assured them love would grow … sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. 😞
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To bring us back to topic I don’t agree that Charles was forced into marriage,as an educated adult man he made choices, he chose to behave badly, to treat Diana terribly and to commit adultery with Camilla for many years. The crown was obviously more important to him than any woman and now he will get it. Nothing I can do about that but I certainly won’t be celebrating it.
and in the middle of it all, it seems ALLEGEDLY ,he wasn't paying much attention to his sons either .
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However, it's heads and shoulders better / nicer than other concrete grid 'New Towns' such as Harlow and Cumbernauld. I think Milton Keynes has much to commend it but it's not a pretty place IMO. All thos bl**dy roundabouts...
Because we've made mistakes like " Harlow and Cambuslang " doesn't mean we have to go back to some pastiche " classical " model.
We produce some of the best architects in the world in UK , but a combination of nimbys and blinkered planning departments mean they end up working abroad.
At the time I went, it seemed characterless, even if the individual buildings were well designed. Roads
There was no space for change.
I refer to it as Poundland.
But we've lost the thread of this topic.x
Tourists will keep going to London even without a monarchy, look at Versailles, Venice etc. I would add Putin and Beyoncé to the people known worldwide.
I am not anti monarch, I am just annoyed at cap doffing and mistaking opinions for facts. I have not taken part in the poll because I am not a resident.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.