During a recent weekend break on the Lincolnshire coast, we stopped by Louth, following the recommendation of the Lonely Planet Great Britain.

The town lies directly on the Greenwich Meridian, meaning that you can hop from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere in one step:

Zero degrees longitude was established in 1884 by International agreement as the Greenwich Meridian and the world’s prime meridian for establishing a standard time reckoning and for measuring longitude throughout the world.

The Greenwich Meridian line runs through Louth. The location of the meridian is marked by a wall plaque on Eastgate. The meridian runs around the world from north to south and also passes through Cordeaux High School in Louth, which is one of only three schools in the world to lie exactly on the meridian.

Unfortunately, the Meridian plaque is screwed to the front of a crappy Fish and Chip shop. The chip shop looked quite well established, so I think Louth Town Council ought to see if they can move the Meridian a bit to the left instead, and screw the plaque to the side of St. James’ Church (which has the highest church spire in England).

We took Holly to see Santa at Wheatcroft Garden Centre, on the A52 near Nottingham at the weekend. I tried to take a picture of Holly by a display, but she ran off. But we did marvel at the amazing effort they’ve gone to on the art work…

See the two Jellybaby-type things at the bottom right. What’s going on with the face on the red one?! Some sort of evil, slightly boss-eyed, melancholy character?

That’s all. As you were.

I’ve set up a group photo album on www.flickr.com for all the pictures people took at Carla and Kristian’s wedding…

Go here to find out more…

Just come back from a weekend break in Great Yarmouth, which was nice. While we were there, Holly made some sandcastles. She’s getting quite good at it. Here she is just putting the finishing touches to a 1:20 scale medieval fortress.