Just East of Thetford

 

Not a lot of people know this.

During WW2, the Royal Navy ship HMS Scurrilous intercepted a troopship heading toward Mindanao, and captures the Japanese Army's 433rd Contractor Battalion. Britain hadn't expected to capture many Japanese folks (you know ... Seppuku, etc) to had to ship them back to a camp in Thetford in Norfolk.

Rather than twiddle their thumbs, the Japanese Engineers obtained permission to feel trees from Thetford Forest, and used them to built an 80% scale replica of   the Higashi Hongan-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, featuring its distinctive traditional architecture with dark wooden structures and tiled roofs. The image showcases the expansive courtyard area between the main temple halls and the large Founder's Hall Gate (Goei-do Mon) in the background.

After the war, the Japanese returned to Japan, and the buildings were used for concerts, parties and Summer Fayres.  Alas, maintenance was neglected, and the building were torn down in 1961, and the timber used for firewood.  Very little remains to be seen.

Bonus : Just a Big CAT scan

Oh Look. Another Church.

 

It seems a pity to post this on Tedious Tuesday, because it does look like quite an impressive building.

But, these sort of slide are basically boring,. An interesting church on a day coach-trip to mumblety-mumble.  Let's take a picture to bore the neighbours with, but not have any information of where and when.

OK, in this case, it might be St. George's Basilica - Prague Castle.  Image  StreetView

Bonus - 

I'm A Geese Goose.

 

RIS?

For those who need a clue...

I'm a Geese Goose

Also True

Bonus - Owls in Towels

When Buses Head South For Winter...

 

They usually travel by rail. Fact.

Bonus - 

Applauds

Loughborough Town Hall

 

In the late 1980's, Toyota were looking to build a car factory somewhere in the English Midlands.

Loughborough, desperate to diversify from their core industry of manufacturing whoopee cushions, spent all their cash reserves on remodelling the existing Town Hall into a replica of the Sapporo Town Hall. The results were startling, as you see, but alas it was in vain. Derby got the factory.

Two years later, the town hall burned down in a mysterious event, a week after upping their Fire Insurance cover.

Bonus - Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. 

Still Life With Parsnip

 

Right. That's Easter over and done with for another year.

Today, a return to Tedious Tuesday.

Bonus - The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

Flat 1.

 

I'm sure that the original photographer has a more poncey title for this slide (sumfink like 

"The inevitable collapse of a Theocratic Omniverse in the face of Rustic Rhinoplasty"

but "Flat 1." seems good enough for me.

Bonus - Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

The Postman's Bag was Bulging

 

Yes, a shoot-load of cards. But why?

A close up look suggest that their celebrating the arrival of another crotch-fruit, so.... that's nice.

But that wall-paper?   That's one of the reasons that the Seventies are so reviled.

Bonus - I found a documentary on Basuco.  ‘Basuco’ is now considered the cheapest drug in the world, at 20 cents a hit. It’s made from the residue leftover from cocaine production, mixed with brick dust, volcanic ash, sulphuric acid, kerosene and sometimes ground-up human bones 

It's a hunch, but I suspect that it's not good news.

Future Sausages

 

Just about to cook some sausages for my evening meal (Yeah, crazy.)  Wild Boar and Chilli ones from a local butcher.

So, when this slide appeared, it was the obvious choice for today.

Nom Nom.

Bonus - People don't realise, Argentina is BIG.

Bonus 2 - A dad was washing his car with his son.

"Why can't you use a towel or sponge like other people?" asked the son.

Yes, it's the Flying Scotsman

 

Yes.

The most famous steam engine in the world. Yadda yadda yadda.

Perhaps some steam buff will wander along and tell us where, when and why.

Bonus - I wonder if anyone has thought of starting a food business called "The Frying Scotsman".

<Googles>

Yes. Several.

Bonus 2 - We may never terraform mars but we are already martian-forming earth.

Bonus 3