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My nieces and nephews at the back of their house in Regent Village up in the mountains around Freetown.
4331. Again we think this image is rare: just possibly the only photo of the war dhow NAIP in existence. There appears to be a machinegun on her stern.
We're not sure what role NAIP played in the attack on Bandar Shahpur [now Bandar Imam Khomeini] , and the seizure of Axis tankers there during the invasion of Iran on August 24-25, 1941 - but one of covert reconnaissance seems likely.
[By the way, Graeme Andrews informs us that he has seen images of the two gunboats, CHAHBAAZ and KHARKUS in 1930s edition of Janes Fighting Ships, which means, hopefully, that we'll eventually find some details.We were relying on the JNS WWII compendenium edited by Antony Preston].
meantime, we have been attempting to identify some the other small ships that formed HMS/HMAS KANIMBLA's little rag-tag invasion flotilla.
Without being completely sure, we think the 'small gunboat' referred to in our sources may have been the trawler HMS MOONSTONE, the tugboat may have been SYDNEY THUBRON, and the Flower Class sloop HMS SNAPDRAGON may have also been involved. Each of these ships are indentified as part the salvage of the damaged Axis freighters soon after the event. HMS SNAPDRAGON was likely the third of the three sloops mentioned, the others being the heavily engaged HMAS YARRA, and HMS FALMOUTH at the iranian naval base near Khorramshahr, where Admiral Glolamali Bayandor was killed defending the base's radio station.
As we have now inserted with a preceding entry, the small Iranian Navy had only been established in 1932, nine years earlier, and the damage sustained on the first night of the joint British-Soviet invasion, Operation Countenance, on August 24-25, 1941, effectively brought its development and use to an end until 1947 in the postwar period, when work on developing the pre-revolutionary Imperial Iranian Navy resumed.
There is some history and images of the Imperial Iranian Navy [pre-1979 revolution] here:
Photo: Derek Simon [1919-2004, courtesy Graeme K. Andrews [RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980].
Gordon Brown joins representatives of Bebo's Big Think project in the Number 10 garden, 22 July 2009; Crown copyright
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Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah.
You loved me, too,
So how come you just sit there and laugh
And laugh and laugh and laugh ?
Things just can't be this way
And not for very long
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is.
And I tried to love you in my own way,
I think that you know I did.
But to have you here, to see you living,
Oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah,
Our love affair is just history, yes it is.
Once in a green time a flower
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
The passion lasted for an hour
And then she wilted from her loved one.
Once in a green time a flower
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
The passion lasted for an hour
And then she wilted from her loved one.
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah.
You wonder if there is, whoa another me
Now how can that be, how can it be ?
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ?
I just got toni-ni-ni-night
Our love affair said it's just a history
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie,
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely,
I'm never too lonely.
It's over baby,
Where were you when I wanted ya
And needed ya right by my side ?
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving,
Baby, don't you hear me cry ?
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried,
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried,
Oh baby, oh babe, whoa.
-Janis Joplin
What you see before you is the latest London location for Burger & Lobster (*fanfair* the global phenomenon!) I think this is number 9 though I may be wrong. These are the (Russian?) guys behind the Goodman steakhouses, and so you could say that they know a little something about meat, at the least! As for the aesthetic of the placeâ¦very American, I dunno if âCrabshackâ would be the right word, but the rustic wood, oldschool filament lamps and lobster cages on the walls come pretty close.
Itâs a strange one, this place, the menu basically has three mains - a whole lobster, a burger and what I guess is simply a lobster roll (cold lobster, warm meat - strong combination). No menu for food at all - you just pick one of the three. As your waiter/waitress may tell you - we âonly do three things, but we do them wellâ. Every meal comes with a side salad (tastes legit due to cheese and other unhealthy things) and a reasonable portion of fries (which are, dare I say, a dead ringer for those youâd get at McDonalds). Lobsters are sourced fresh from Nova Scotia and Maine (I think?), depending on season. As far as lobsters go, I have eaten lobsters all over the US and these areâ¦.pretty close to how I remember (ask for it steamed instead of grilled for full fishy lobster flavoursâ¦)
As this is a relatively new location, theyâre not quite as rammed as I hear the other ones can get (yet!). 3 hour queues? Apparently people will put up with such things. As for queuing up for 3 hours for a restaurant? I love food but you wonât see me doing that. Ever. Not ever. Spend more time waiting than eating? REALLY?! Who does that? OK, Iâll stop. Onto their pricing: £20 is a bit steep for a burger but for a lobster it feels like a bargain. Though the âno reservationâ system seems pretentious, the actual dining experience, thankfully, does not feel quite the same way. From what I saw, staff are super chill, and you eat off of trays instead of plates (which is either pretentious or unpretentious, I dunno). Idea: you could theoretically eat here âeconomicallyâ by getting a lobster to split between the two of you (provided you werenât hugely hungry). And buy more drinks and desserts. Said desserts and drinks are a...reasonable selection, reasonably priced - I suppose about average for London. They do quite a few cocktails, I think 17 last time I checked.
Part of the fun is, obviously, eating the lobster with the cracking tools they provide (your patience is rewarded by access to the delicious parts of the flesh hidden in the deep recesses of the exoskeleton). Eating lobster is actually not as hard, nor messy, as people think it is. You simply crack the joints with the dangerous implements they provide you (in this instance, the âWestmark Crackyâ, lol). This is a legit place to go with friends and loved ones - a lot of fun. It is, however, not a good place to take new business acquaintances or potential romantic connections. Eating with a bib whilst pieces of crustacean fly everywhere probably isnât a good look (though I could be wrong!). Before anyone asks, no, you donât get to choose which lobster youâre going to eat from the tanks (which I am grateful for - I donât think I am quite ready to confront the reality of choosing exactly what has to die to feed me. Goddamn...)
All in all, good food, nice location - none of this speedy table turnover and frenetic rushing I read about in some other reviews. So yeah, a somewhat minimalist approach to restaurateuring which delivers upon its promise of burger and/or lobster. If they keep their lobster pricing the same, I will most certainly be back. Well done to you, (possibly Russian) people of Burger and Lobster!
On the brink of an extended war – the climate crisis, wild weather, natural disasters – it's time to think about something else on a Sunday in November – Think about something else – escape from reality on a Sunday in November
Their are people in this world that just need to remember and THINK before they speak!
I can offer them this bit of advice a "Nice Big Cup of Shut the Fuck up!"
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In March 2021 many shops remain silent, still bedecked with their Christmas decorations.
The pair of Botanic Gardens lodges were designed by James Miller, 1894.
"Thinker On A Rock" by Barry Flanagan.
Taken about 8:30 AM Sunday morning, November 30, near the Pappajohn Educational Center, downtown Des Moines, IA.
The Azalea Trail Maids stand on the runway before the start of the fashion show during the 4th annual Think Pink Tea event at the Mitchell Cancer Institute in Mobile, Ala. Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.
The 2014 City of London Festival (COLF), which is takes place from June 22 to July 17 features a Korea Focus this year, with Seoul in the City.
Many of the artists are appearing with the support of Arts Council Korea, Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, Korea Tourism Organization and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
The Opening Reception for the programme ‘Seoul in the City’ was held at the KCCUK. The Reception was accompanied by the Forum "Artist Talk: Think in Performance Part 1". The Forum was led by Vincent Dowd Arts Correspondent, BBC World Wide Service, and the panellists were Neil Webb (Director, Theatre and Dance, British Council), Louise Chantal (Producer, Louise Chantal Productions), Seok-Kyu Choi (CEO, AsiaNow ) and Angela Kwon (Festival Programme Director, Seoul in the City).