See The World's Oldest & Newest Pyramids: Great Pyramid In Germany, 1993-3183! Started But Will Finish Later! Plus Pyramids in the USA, UK, Ireland and Worldwide

 

Where is it and what is it?

It is in Germany. A series of concrete blocks. The first was placed in 1993. The second in 2003. The third in 2013. The next will be in 2023. One is added every ten years. To be finished in years to come, not in our lifetime. 

It will be completed in 3183. My grand-daughter was born this year, 2021. My grand-daughter's, grand-daughter might see it finished.

The cathedrals of old were started with a projected finishing date much later, often projected to finish a hundred years from the starting date.

Gothic Cathedrals

The Gothic cathedrals in the UK, France, Spain and Germany were arched and domed and elegant. They were under cover meeting places for ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. Their domes had contrasting colours of green or gold. 

The Taj Mahal, India

The Taj Mahal is beautiful, inlaid with precious stones. It was a monument in memory of a woman who was buried there, and later her husband.

The Egyptian Pyramids

On the other hand, the great pyramids of Egypt were solid. Squat. Nothing to see from outside. 

Pyramids of Giza

Photo by Ricardo Liberato, Wiki.

Stonehenge in the UK

Stonehenge had simple stones. But arranged in a circle.

Meaning

Stonehenge had a meaning. It caught the sun's rays.

The Egyptian pyramids had a purpose. They were mausoleums. 

You can visit the German pyramid any time for free. Follow the directions on the website.

Records

I would prefer if each column in the German pyramid in each year listed major events. Good and bad events. For example, landing on the moon. Covid-19.

See next post on Wemding

Germany also has other ideas for pyramids.

Pyramid in Karlsruhe, Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_Monument

England has a pyramid mausoleum in Blickling Park, Norfolk, UK.

Ireland

Howard Mausoleum, centre of Kilbride Cemetery, near Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland

Photo by Timothy J  Morgan

Over in the USA there's a pyramid, Hunt's tomb, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

I like this pyramid in the USA with a camel on top:

It's the Jolly Tomb. Very jolly. US Camel Corps.

Hi Jolly's life in the USA is described in the website below.

Useful Websites

GERMANY

https://www.wemding.de/poi/zeitpyramide-10278/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Pyramid

UK

https://www.wemding.de/tourismus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_Jolly

Others are in Poland and elsewhere.

WORLDWIDE

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pyramidal_mausoleums

About the Author

About Angela The Author

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President.

Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.

Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

The recent meeting of BHA included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . Also an educational on using Powerpoint for posters.

Next BHA meetings, (subject to revision)

1 (Saturday, May 15th, was 2 pm Singapore time, postponed because of national speaking contest.) 

After Vesak day and Hari Raya: 

Postponed to Saturday May 29th, 2021, at 2pm. Login to bha.learncool.sg earlier.

Workshop by Sam Chou.

2 Next June meetings 1st Wednesday evening June 2nd at 7 pm Singapore time. 

3 Third Saturday afternoon, June 19th, Singapore time.  Thanks to the old team and Inauguration of New Team. 

Special speech with slides about teamwork in sport and Toastmasters International and life, by the President of West Coast Toastmasters Club who often help BHA with workshops and invite us to give speeches at their club.

Inauguration of new committee by incoming Area Director of S

About Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs on speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

See next post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

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The information on Toastmasters is updated regularly.

The Joys of Canal cruising. Plastic Problems And Solutions

Let's start with the bad news and end with the good news.

Millions of pieces of plastic are polluting rivers and canals. But there are plans to clear it up. Why should we care about canals?

I have stopped to photograph canals.

Yes, I have been on canal boats, calm and peaceful.

No big decisions. You go forwards. You stop at your end point or come back to the starting point. The scenery goes slowy past. The hum sends you to sleep.

The stop-off points for food are few and far between and the canal boat owner or cruise company has them already arranged.

You take your own food and drink. You share everything.

Life Stories
You have endless hours to talk, share your life story. You listen to theirs. They listen to yours.

You learn things about them and yourself you would never normally have the time and intimacy to tell. "Childhood ... Marriage ... Divorce ... Bereavement ...

"Past jobs. What I did. What I should have done.

"Don't tell anyone. Success and failure. Dreams."

Midlands
In England we went crusing along a canal with a friend called Phil in the Midlands. He wanted to see his friend who retired to live half the year on a houseboat. We made up a foursome.

Picnic Food
The deal was that we took food and drink. He provided the boat. So we took along a copious amount of good food and drink, leaving our car in the car park by the pub at the departure point.

To our surprise, our food and drink was just for the hours on the boat. We started with the canal boat owner, more time and money spent at the pub. Have a drink.

Why? No preparation nor washing up. Hot food. The best place on the canal, why he had chosen that as our start and end poing. Order while waiting for our fourth friend to turn up on the motorway jam. We needed two to release the boat from the moorings and our fourth friend was familiar with it, not likely to fall overboard when untying the knots in the rope or chain.

After a while our fourth arrived and after a jolly lunch we left for the canal.

Pub At Night
In the evening we came back to the same pub. What had seemed like a simple, downmarket, dusty, half empty pub at lunchtime felt like a lovely warm and welcoming return home in the evening.

The lights shone through the darkness. Never mind the outside. The sound of laughter and the samll of food.

Inside was candle-light and cheer. The night hid the dusty corners. The pub was cosy, familiar welcoming, staff we knew. The toilet location we knew, no longer an unerving surprise. Pictures on the wall we recognized and now wanted to know more about. Regulars we hailed like long-lost friends. The buz of chatter.

Firm Friendship
Our friends, new at lunch time, like strangers not seen for years, were now close as family, their whole lives familiar to us.

Norfolk Broads
Long ago we went on the Norfolk broads. Invited by a friend called David. Again, by the end of the three hour afternoon our friends not seen for weeks had become very close.

Norfolk is now no longer just a place on the map for me, but like a forever childhood home, always with distant memories revived as we look at maps or drive past familiar names.

So, now I come to think of it, I do care about canals. More about the plastic in the next post.
If you are interested in the waterways, visit the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, UK.

Interesting and Useful websites
Canal clear-up
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48516745?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk&link_location=live-reporting-story
https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/ShowUserReviews-g1118256-d3183144-r144069111-Ring_O_Bells-Marple_Stockport_Greater_Manchester_England.html
visitbritain.com
https://www.watermuseums.net/museum/national-waterways-museum/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker

Saucy Post - another saucy post

Let's start simply again. Think of it this way. White sauces are made with flour added to liquid such as white milk. Brown sauces from stock such as meat or fish. the third variation is adding an egg.

Then we come to some place names. From the French point of view, the espanol is from south of where they are on the map, a thick brown sauce. (Think go south for more sun, thicker skin, brown like a tan.)

(Incidentally, some Indian sauces are the same, at least as a memory aid. Mild korma which is a white sauce from the cooler north. Hot sauces, and spicy sauces, such as Madras made with c h i l i, from further south. On the other hand, the animals are in the north, whilst the vegetarians are in the south - so you get vegetarian foods.)

In France you get the butter based dishes in the north, in Normandy (the word comes from the root Nor - same as the English county of Norfolk meaning north folk). The oil based dishes are from the south. The north is where you get countryside like southern England, with cows providing milk and meat.

In the south you get olive trees and olive oil. Just like driving for days through the American corn belt on a Greyhound bus taught me geography of the USA, driving through Spain and Italy seeing the vineyards on the cooler hillsides, and the gnarled olive trees in the south taught me how geography affects food and wine production.

You don't have to travel by bus and car nowadays. You can check the geography of any country with Google maps, even as detailed as street view showing the wineries, animals in the fields,  fishing boats on beaches, and food factories and trees in the streets and gardens, such as the coconut palms and oil palms.

If you are stuck for hours at an airport, or waiting in a restaurant for friends to turn up, you can amuse yourself by translating the menu and when your friends arrive they will be ever so impressed by the fact that you arrived early and have detailed knowledge of the menu. You will probably know more than the serving staff, who will greet you like an old friend if you know their home area and its produce.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and speaker.

Davenport's Magic in London and Norfolk

Davenport's Magic Kingdom in Norfolk has lots of events. If you can't make it, see the magic shop in London near Charing Cross tube station. 

Here's their venue and cafe in Norfolk.

Sit in the cafe while waiting for the show or while your family look at exhibits

Lots for tiny tots

Interactive - wave at the mirror! Multiple me.

Teach and learn about optical illusions.

Optical illusion - me or you?

Yes, Mum, it is straight!

If you need a witches' hat for a fancy dress party or stage performance, a whoopee cushion for a prank, a set of cards, browse, want to find out how it's done, see a show in Norfolk, browse the shop near Charing Cross in London, or download a video of tricks and secrets online.  http://www.davenportsmagic.co.uk/acatalog/About-Davenports.html

Davenports Magic,
7 Charing Cross Underground Arcade,
The Strand, London,
WC2N 4HZ
U.K.

Our opening times are:

Monday to Friday: 9.30 to 5.30
Saturday : 10.30 to 4.30
Closed on Sundays and public holidays

e-mail: all@davenportsmagic.co.uk

Phone: 020 7836 0408


Angela Lansbury is a travel writer, blogger and author, specialising in the entertaining and unusual.
 Did you know Houdini was Jewish? Angela Lansbury is the Author of Jewish travel tales, with stories and places connected with Jewish characters throughout history including famous royals and entertainers and wits from the Queen of Sheba, to Al Jolson, Levi jeans, Disraeli and Marilyn Monroe.

Cromer on the Coast of Norfolk, loved the lifeboat museum

Excellent visit to Cromer pier with. The lifeboat museum is at the end of the pier.

This is the RNLI lifeboat. (Royal National Lifeboat ...)

Henry Blogg, hero of the lifeboats, made numerous rescues, second in fame and bravery to Grace Darling. Great collection of envelopes and stamps honouring the lifeboats.
The Henry Blogg museum is nearby in Cromer.