Seven Wonders Revisited
The Grand Canyon.
I live in the UK. It's a long way to go just to see a hole in the ground, and why should when I can watch the Gas Board digging our street up every other day when they come to cut another non-payer off.
The Pyramids
I had enough of pyramid selling in the 80s, and it's all right having a pointed roof like that, but they forgot to put in a chimney. That means you can't have a fire and it gets bloody cold in the desert at night.
The Coliseum
I've worked for builders like the ones who slung up this place. No windows, no doors, no roof and look how far you have to walk to the dunny. And what's their excuse? "We're waiting for a skip, guv."
The Humber Bridge
The fifth longest suspension bridge in the world and the longest you can cross on foot. It's bad enough leaving Yorkshire to go to Lincolnshire, but who needs a short cut?
The Hoover Dam
This is the wrong way round, isn't it? It should be the damned Hoover, especially when she runs it over the carpet while I'm trying to check my football pools.
Ayres Rock
Another mistake: spelling this time. I didn't know you could buy rock in Ayr, and anyway I prefer Blackpool.
Stonehenge.
I read somewhere that it's a calendar. A CALENDAR!!! Can you imagine Mrs MacTavish saying, "What's the date, Jock?" "I'll just nip to Wiltshire to find out, dear. Back in about a month." Why didn't they settle for pictures of kittens hanging on the wall?
- I remember a debate at St Andrews University on why Scotland needed the Forth Road Bridge and an English student being thrown out for demanding to know what the Scots had done with the other three.
The Humber shortcut is needed by those like me who escaped from Lincolnshire to Yorkshire. - Tee hee! Particuarly the Stonehenge one. Used to live in Salisbury way back and afterwards frequently visited my grandparents down there... but we didn't realise that our out-of-date map didn't include some vital road changes. For years we'd somehow GET to Salisbury OK, but on the way back home we'd invariably suddenly find (despite all our efforts) that we were going in exactly the opposite direction to where we were meant to and, once more, sailing past Stonehenge when we were meant to be nowhere near it . Screams of 'There's Stonehenge again!' would errupt and we'd do a U turn as quickly as possible. That place is the most god-forsaken windy piece of barren scrub I can think of.
- Great ideas here David. A fair number of pubs dripping with hanging baskets must be the modern equivalent of the Hanging gardens maybe.
