Beanie Mouse

Sunday, 26 June 2016

All the international drain covers!!

Asta found this one in Prague in June 2016!

We found these ones in Budapest, Hungary (October 2015)

Sullivan found this one in Berlin, Germany!!

The pineapple one was found in Florida by Ryan!

The Aero bubble one above is Canadian and so is the froggy one underneath!!

Alexander MacKenzie Bear found this one in Vancouver, Canada!!

The one above and the one below were both found in Quebec, Canada by my mate Mim!!! (But there's still a few pictures from France that are AWOL - still looking for those!)

The one above and the following six were found in Paris in May 2014

Sullivan found this one above in Normandy!

Well, some of my drain cover pictures have gone missing but I'm still trying to find them on Google Images. Meanwhile, Hammie found three more in Brittany for me!!! (Above and next two)

And then found these three in Lauwersoog Holland! (above and next two!)

The ones above and below were found in Bremen, Germany by my friend Hammie!! The one below, if you put a coin through the slot in the middle it plays songs for you!!!! Isn't that great!!!

My friend Emily in Australia emailed me this photo of a drain cover in Wellington, New Zealand!!! Isn't it brilliant!!! I'm going to add this in to my collection...!!

We found this drain cover in Lille, France, in March 2013!!

I found these ones in Brussels in February 2012! This shell isn't really a drain cover but it's still rather pretty!! So far, all these are European except for one.

That's the last Brussels drain (above)!!!

Recently, I got some mail art from a friend called Kaz who lives in Japan. Kaz sent me a picture of a man hole cover!!!!!

I can't remember where he said it was - I think it was either Japan or LA, but I'll check and update this update later!!!

Hammie went on holiday a while ago and sent me this picture of a drain cover he found!!

These are French!

Hammie sent me two more pictures today - he found more drain covers on his camera!! This one is from Amien in France...

And this one is also from Amien in France!!!

Last week, Andrea got out some old photographs from a trip she took to Barcelona. She went there before she met me, which is why I didn't go. But she showed me a picture of a Spanish drain cover she found there! It has lots of little pictures all over it!!!

She also showed me this picture in Barcelona. She found this on the pavement/sidewalk but she's not sure if it's a drain cover or not.

She says it might be a fancy sundial or something...

My friend Hammie went on vacation in the Brittany area of France (August 2011). Because he knows that I like looking at drain covers, he took lots of pictures of different French ones and said I could post them here!

I'm not sure what towns they're in but maybe he'll tell us!

This one looks like a telephone cover!!

A circle inside a rectangle! We don't get those in England!

This one's almost a Fleur De Lys design!!

A spotty one! It has measles!

That looks a little bit like the English Gas covers...

I think Hammie said these three are from St Malo.....

Wow!! Those are pretty!! Thank you for sending those, Hammie!!!

This one was recently found in Prague, Czech Republic by my friend Sullivan McPig (he has his own blog too, listed on right). He took a photo of it specially for this collection!

I found this one (above) in Groningen, Holland back in February 2011 and has the Martini Tower on it!

These ones are from Groningen, too!

Monday, 20 June 2016

A Soggy Day in Eastbourne.....

Today Andrea had taken the day off work and said we were going to meet people!

We went up to the bus stop but because it was raining, it was very busy..... so we went to another bus stop and found a bus that wasn't packed up!

And we got off here!! We met up with Bev and Vicky and then went and got a number 13X bus.....

And we're off.... and it's raining......

..... this is Cuckmere Haven which you can barely see because of the low flying cloud!!!

We got off at the last stop, at Eastbourne Pier.

It's pissing it down....

Oh poop....

Speaking of poop, a seagull pooped on that pretentious car!!! HAhahahahahaaaaaa!!!

(it's on the door)

Well we ran down the Pier to see what was what and it was all rather disappointing. The very end of it is a nightclub which is presumably only open at night, and not quarter to eleven in the morning. The arcade games bit had about eight games in it, none of which were the 2p games that we like.

Which left us with the Victorian Tea Rooms which had just opened and had a very posh and very low slung chandelier in it.

Me and Bev had a hot chocolate each - Vicky had a Pot Of Tea.

Me and Bev had a Hot Scone each wiv jam and Clotted Cream. It was Yum!!!

A bit later they turned the lights on!

Posh huh?!

After tea, we decided that since the weather was so crap, we'd get the bus back to Brighton and have lunch somewhere nice and they play the arcade games there... so we got on the next bus!

I left then a weathergram!

.....it's still pissing it with rain!!!!

Anyway, we got off here ....... it wasn't raining quite so hard now!!

And we went for lunch here!!!

We all had prawn toasts because they're yummy!

And I had a King Prawn Pad Thai which was yumtastic!!

I couldn't finish it all though!!

After lunch, we walked down to the seafront and found another cable box!!

That's where we're going!!!

And we found a sculpture on the way!!!

Here we are! Brighton Pier!!

Well the games were a little slow this time, specially the 10p games. We'd put loads of money in but nothing bumped along or fell out into the prize pockets at the bottom!! But we did get a few prizes though!!