To everyone out there who is in love, I wish you a Happy Velentine’s Day.
But as I always say at this time of year, let’s not forget the lonely, the unloved, the never-been-loved. For those people, this celebratory day must seem like an annual torture.
When all’s said and done, it’s just about sales and marketing.
If you really love someone, then that’s every day. Not just one special day each year.
Kensington Palace Gardens in London has the most expensive property prices in Britain. Many of the grand residences there house foreign embassies and diplomats, as well as private homes of the super rich, most of them foreign nationals. At each end of the street are private security guards and armed police checking vehicle access, and most of the diplomatic residences also have armed police officers guarding them.
It is in an ideal spot in London, next to the royal residence of Kensington Palace, and Kensington Gardens, a public park. Also close to Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace, and the shops of Kensington and Knightsbridge. But even a millionaire cannot afford to live there, as the average price for a house is £20,000,000. Some of the larger houses are worth over £145,000,000. No less than ten grand properties on the street are owned by the Saudi royal family.
At a time when many Britons are using food banks, struggling to pay gas and electricity bills, and millions here are barely getting by on the basic minimum wage, I personally find this obscene.
This graphic from a newspaper (The Daily Mail) shows the street and some of the houses that line it.
Check out the graphic below on chuq’s post to discover what life was like before ‘Online’!
Social media….vintage social media…..
I am an old fart so I remember the rotor telephone, stamps, photos printed on paper,….but enough of the that …let me show you “our” social media…
And somehow we made it to the 21st century without having told everyone every minute of our lives…..you were “famous” back in the Dark Ages for actually doing something exceptional…not because you did something stupid and put it on-line for all to see.
This silly thing, social media, is how we got to this spot in history and the turn will define the next decade……
“lego ergo scribo”
beetleypete 