This blog was originally entitled cute animals in showers. But I thought I would take a leaf from the UK Government, prove that frankly I don’t know my arse from my elbow, and just chuck a pig’s ear of a blog out into the ether (though obviously always guided by the science) and rely on you, the public, to make sense of it all. So here it is…
As promised in May blog, my unsuccessful internet search for images of beach showers unearthed the following shower factzzzzzzzzzz that I had never thought of and frankly my life was not the poorer for not having known them. But hey, not going to waste all that time so here they come.
Fun shower fact No. 1! The longest shower was by Kevin “Catfish” McCarthy in 1985 and is 340 hours and 40 minutes long. No more details than that. (You can dress that fact up all you like with the word fun and an exclamation mark but it is still merely tedious. Tell it how it is Ed.)
Fun shower fact No. 2! The world record for the most people in a shower was 152 in Bournemouth in August 2011. I say was as thankfully it has now been broken. It was part of a Lynx advert that I might have expected to see in the 1970s, not 50 years after feminism.
The record for the most people showering simultaneously is now 396, achieved at the Firefly Music Festival in Dover Delaware, USA, on 15 June 2018. This one I like. Clubbing under a shower!
Back to cute animals in showers…
But just before we get there Lyds, in a too little too late kind of a way, sent across this battered, old (and presumably now defunct) beach shower down in Brighton/Hove. I’ve included it in the spirit of ‘ex ech2o staff – where are they now?’ She took it just after the council had closed the beach which just meant less social distancing could go on cos everyone was crowded onto the pavement for their daily exercise! Anyhow beach is now open again but no news on whether the shower is operational. I like the way it’s on the pavement as opposed to the beach. As though it’s the walkers and bench sitters who would like a shower rather than the (fool) hardy folk (that’s you Drew) who have braved the waves…
And then that was closely followed by second cousin John twice removed not wanting to be left out now he realised the deadline had shifted. Thing is he doesn’t fall into the ‘ech2o – where are they now?’ category. So he only gets in here by virtue of the fact he works in the Australian diplomatic services and owing me a favour might come in useful one day… Also, in true civil service style he sent me far too much information so I am forced to paraphrase or we will all lose the will to live. C.Y. O’Connor beach…10 metres …toilet block… BBQ area… horse exercising… sandy feet… dogs.
And this google map which I have artfully turned on its side so that north is now east. For which I need to apologise to all the architects who have shown me plans over the years and asked me to comment on / design PVs or solar thermal systems for WITH NO NORTH INDICATION ANYWHERE TO BE FOUND! Not that I’m bitter you understand
Anyway, having got that off my chest, I would like to say (and I do actually mean it) I am super impressed by the Aussie beach shower examples in this and last month’s blog.
And the cute animals in showers you ask? Well, no time for that now but here’s a teaser…
BOO!