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[miss_squiddy]

So today I wasted most of my working hours at the National Memorial Arboretum, which does exactly what it says on the tin - it's a lot of trees and a lot of monuments. Every single tree in there is dedicated to someone and every single monument commemorates a battle or a regiment or a ship - which is pretty moving if you stop looking at the pretty scenery and think about it for a minute. Still, I wonder how long it will be before people come to enjoy the present as well as remember the past...

They're building this at the moment. It's a great big circular war memorial thingy. Impressive, huh?



Anyway, after a day of all that, I was in adventure mode and took a bit of a wonky route home. Discovery No. 1 was quite pretty:



Discovery No. 2 was downright weird:



What on earth is that? Hang on a minute - it's a wing. From a plane. With, like, jet engines and those RAF Spitfire spot things. In someone's garden. With decorative pot plants around the edges. Yeah. OK.

Comments

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to work out which plane those wings came from, my guess would be that they're the outer wing panels of a Gloster Meteor (or possibly an English Electric Canberra, but they look a bit small for that).

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's out of Donnie Darko to me...! ;)

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

That's nothing, I've seen pictures of a field next to some bloke's house down south (I think it was in Berkshire but I could be wrong) - he's got two nearly complete Harriers, a couple more in pieces, a Jaguar, and probably two or three other aircraft I can't remember. I'm not sure what he intends to do with them, maybe he thought they were just too cool to be melted down and turned into coke cans?

[teadaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there's a farmer somewhere in the US who's got (amongst many other aircraft) a Convair B-36 Peacemaker in three pieces, with a completely unused, still in it's packing crate, P-47 Thunderbolt stored inside it.