For reasons best known to you, dear readers, my post Homage to H.G.Wells and the Telescope Sign remains my most regularly hit. There was a sad follow-up - Grave News, which reported the disappearance of the telescope itself. Only the stand and the superb 'found' poem remained. But this, as my picture shows, is a story with a happy ending. The great Wells-next-the-Sea telescope is back. And, for the first time, I notice the huge cutout for the nose. Plainly this is a 'scope with Nige in mind.
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At last, a good news story from Wells - and yes that's my kind of 'scope all right. How thoughtful of them.
ReplyDeleteBryan, is the recovered telescope the original from the 1890s, or is it a modern version made in Shanghai from a design provided by the Tawny Owl Trust? I ask because the more I look at the picture the more clearly I see the eyes of a bird staring back at the user.
ReplyDeleteLooks original to me. I can't imagine they'd have gone to the trouble of encrusted paint.
ReplyDeleteAs someone well-endowed in the proboscis department, I too am delighted. But there would appear to be no concession for the childless gazer.
ReplyDeletethrown by the nose cleft you've missed the fact that it appears to be pointing the wrong way. still, cousin cletus's turnip greens are lookin' mighty purty...
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should have retired after Homage to H.G.Wells and the Telescope Sign.
ReplyDeleteIt was, to my way of thinking, the perfect English blog post.
Good thought, Brit, retirement feels like an attractive option right now.
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