Men in Boats, or balaclavas. There's a military exercise taking place in London at the moment, designed to let foreign athletes know they'd better not get in front of any Brits at the Olympics. HMS Ocean, a helicopter platform, is berthed at Greenwich.
Here's a picture of a helicopter landing on it: <http://www.web-options.com/P0050019.jpg> On my way back home I noticed a couple of boats full of men in black balaclavas - although it wasn't particularly chilly, a nice warm scarf and a pair of mittens would have done. <http://www.web-options.com/P0050031.jpg> Here they are arriving back at the ship, probably looking forward to a lovely mug of hot chocolate: <http://www.web-options.com/P0050033.jpg> Here's some news footage of HMS Ocean nearly hitting the Thames Barrier on the way in: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluTs5e0uIA> There are some Rapier ground-to-air missiles up on Blackheath, about a mile away. I might go and have a look at them tomorrow. Here are some friendly bombs, aimed at Bexleyheath: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoiHkorrz-8> The bobbies at 0:33 are saying "Oi! You can't park that there 'ere!". B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
