Outlook!

MY WORLD

http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/

 

OUTLOOK!

This municipal edifice in the centre of our city,

I think is quite attractive, and verging on the pretty!

It's right beside the park, as well, which gives it added grace,

And makes Newcastle's environs a very pleasant place.

But I think our rates are calculated in this mock rotunda

And goodness knows 'they' seem to plan to pillage and to plunder!

'Never judge a book by its cover'... that's a phrase we often use

So this building represents the fact that we've got to pay our dues!

Maybe the numerous windows 'keep an eye on us' poor saps;

Definitely part of 'My World' but not the best, perhaps!

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Better aspects of Newcastle here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/12/223-nothing-could-be-finer.html

City Scape

From Brochure


SUNDAY IN MY CITY

CITY SCAPE.

Newcastle, is a city that isn't widely known,

And yet it has attractions that belong to it alone.

Take Nobbys, once an island, till an artificial beach

Was built to keep the wild waves within reasonable reach.

This was in the days of sail, when many ships went down

Traversing the heavy surf as they attempted to reach town.

Now Nobbys is under discussion......should restaurants be built,

Leaving the historians with quite a sense of guilt?

Or should it remain a relic of the days of long ago,

Something that developers call backward-looking, slow?

Watch this space for a year or two then, maybe, you will see

What the outcome of this brouhaha will be eventually.

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Newcastle on the map here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-red.html