Another year over, and a new one just begun

[aquaMat]

This is unbelievable !!

How can a city put away things which are so characteristic for its look....they were almost like

promotional tools

for England, IMO.

In Germany, shortly after the once state-owned Telekom (used to belong to the Post) became a private enterprise, they changed their look (their

corporate identity

) to a screaming pink..... so all the old dark-yellow phone boxes disappeared (almost completely), and the new ones were not only pink....but they weren't boxes any longer (!)..... just lampposts with a phone and a big, pink sign.

Say it's raining and you need to phone....your problem if you get soaking wet.

However, those yellow phone boxes were not as

typical

(and also not as beautiful) as those red british ones.....

But why have the buses gone?  I can't believe it......  

[Mikee]

Happy New Year from Switzerland 8-) hehe in the Moment it have no snow around here

[Lara]

Sorry Matari you be wrong.

Two bus routes running through central London (the 9 and the 15) run the heritage/old double-deckers as those bus routes go past many of the tourist points. And double-decker buses in general as everywhere... most  London buses are double-deckers.

As to phone boxes, there are less of the old style, but they are still around (in London at least). Please see below for a recent photo of me with one:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=662444&l=d02db&id=690595673
xxx

[Matari]

Ahhh - I live in the Midlands and no old style double-deckers survive - also no red phone boxes...

[SandyBean]

Glad to hear not all the double deckers and phone boxes have gone !

We are here in Canada in Winter Wonder Land!  The first time in over 40 years where all across Canada has had a white Christmas.

I can tell you we have had enough here in Deroche, BC, we have been shovelling and working with the white stuff to excess !  The doves and chickens will not come out of their coops and aviaries, and the dogs come in covered in snowballs.  We have had a few of our family events and get togethers cancelled because of snow driving conditions, and have had to torture poor neighbors to our roast beef dinners in place of them !

Enough of the white stuff, I am ready for the regular lower mainland 'liquid sunshine', ie; rain !!!   8-)

Take care all, and wishing everyone a wonderful New Year !

SandyBean [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[Toybox]

hawaii wrote: Oh, does that mean that the French Republic start January 1st the day after Sept 22nd????? hmmmmm.
What do they do with the left over mths ie: Oct, Nov, Dec????
Relax, don't get your knickers in a knot, I am only teasing. hee, hee, hee.

No, it's just an ordinary, but more rational, calendar system, with 30-days months and 10-days week (meaning less week-end time in a year :o ).

They also tried to introduce a 10-hours-day, each hour being 100 minutes (and these 'hours' and 'minutes' not lasting the same time as the ones we know - let the mathematically inclined compute the conversion rate), but that was so much really, really impractical that it was abandoned in a few years' time only.

So, today it is Septidi 17 Nivose 217.

More details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar 8-)