Oval gasworks

photo by James Bowen

I cycled past the gasworks once
And thought what an ugly sight,
But times have changed, I was a dunce
It's beautiful - not a blight.

Gaswork views trend up and down
With the everchanging scene.
Once an icon for every town,
But now a sad has-been.

Get ready for blackouts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYHpjbv0VBU

More gas urgently needed!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSIz8BKsS2g

The ovalness of the gasometer is an optical illusion. Viewed it from directly above, and you'd see its actual shape - round.

It's a variation on the Necker cube.

Thank Roy, but he thought wrong. This IMHO is the best that can be made of that shot:



Not feeling my best at the moment. Have a cough and am running a temperature of 101 degrees. First time I've been ill for nearly 3 years. The last time I had a temperature, in August 2019, I ended up in Intensive Care and spent 12 weeks in hospital. But this, I think, is less serious. I self-tested yesterday and today - negative - so it doesn't appear to be Covid.

Good try, but the main point of interest is lost in the sky.

I'm sorry you're feeling unwell. It may be nothing untoward, but I suggest you contact your doctor straight away, just to be on the safe side.

Thanks, but to see a doctor here, an appointment must be made 6 months in advance, by which time either the thing has got better on its own or you're dead. According to the NHS website common-or-garden chest infections normally last 7-10 days and one should only bother a doctor if the symptoms persist for longer. My temperature is slightly lower today, but the cough is so bad that if I still had one, I'd wear a hacking jacket.

I agree with the NHS website and wouldn't dream of bothering a doctor with symptoms like that, as these things generally go away by themselves. But it would seem advisable in your case, in view of your past experience.

Hope you feel better soon. Roy's advice is more C and D, or move away from Ealing.

C and D. ???

Vitamins.

Cannot find your latest update (health issues). Under which picture are/were they?

Here, but deleted once read.

Abiit autem non sum oblitus.

There was an old chap with no bat in,
Who liked to be chatting in Latin.
He was so full of gas,
But he did it with class,
And his sheets were of finest satin.

This old chap remembers barely 1% of his schoolboy Latin, but impresses people to this day when he quotes this: "In Sneffels yoculis craterem ken delebat umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. Kod feci.", something he memorised at 13 after reading "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", particularly when it comes out on cue, as on two occasions in recent years while touring in Iceland.

More British history jettisoned in the mad rush to accessible and inclusive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTWTbx1RPs