Where am I

So close, but yet so far.... Yes, 'twas the Palace of Westminster, but nothing so infra-dig as the House of Commons, wouldn't be seen dead mixing with those slimy hypocritical gits.

Was in fact the adjoining terrace at the House of Lords, marginally less slimy although at least one freeloading MP who I would happily do away with managed to sneak in. The Commons bit can be seen in the second photo behind the shrub in the bottom left corner!

Very pleasant evening to be overlooking the Thames, watching the cruise boats go by, and mingling. Sorry for the quality of the photo's, just snaps from a Blackberry.


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Could you a little bit specify where is the Palace of Westminster and is it far from the House of Lords ? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
oh, I was miles out. House of Lords Terrace is a *Completely* different place from Palace of Westminster HoC terrace or balcony, I and others might as well have said "Berlin". I mean it's like you telling someone you're in the bog - and you'd be wrong ther too - because you aren't actually in the bog itself are you? No. Quite Wrong and very inaccurate - you are NEAR the bog or even mebbe SITTING on the bog but most definitely not IN it.

I must say I am pleased to find craggy steve raising the bar of these hitherto rather vague in-house question competitions where everyone says "Lymington Yacht Club" and feels they are correct frinstance when it is actually not there but two paving flags to the right, and hence not in the yacht club at all, or if it's on the balcony that's wrong as well, cos it is actually called a verandha, and even then that's wrong too cos it's actually the Betsy Gimpshaw-Lyons Veranda so again, wrong, and now i'm not sure how to spell i've spelled verandha correctly so yet again, wrong wrong wrong...
 
Ah,um, ho ho..

Well 100 yards out anyway, but geographic location is not the only definitor of place; it's like being at Ronnie Scott's, there is a world of difference between upstairs & the cellars.

To suggest that the Lords and the Commons are fundamentally the same place is to ignore the dimensions of civilisation, the Lords are essentially and generally quite civilised old buffoons, whereas the Commoners are, well, not. Indeed the latter are responsible for my imminent flight from the UK, whereas the former have been the moderating force that has enabled me to hold out for so long..... quite distinct really /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Could you a little bit specify where is the Palace of Westminster and is it far from the House of Lords ? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[/ QUOTE ]The whole building is the 'palace of westminster'...... and a beautiful building it is too..... in fact far far too lovely to be wasted on the scoundrels that currently occupy it....
 
Went to a reception there a couple of summers ago...lunch on the terrace was very nice. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Wish I could saythe same about the company - some of the inhabitants looked like they would be more at home in a nursing home!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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No, but I will be this weekend /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[/ QUOTE ] why not sail up to the solway then. I'm intending a visit to kipford
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