Once I’d dragged DH out of the fort, we discovered the island was a mini Disneyland. Spotlessly clean, as you’d expect and I was too busy rubber necking to take many pictures.
The cable car stopped at several levels and you could get out and explore at each one.
The merlion is a mixture of a lion’s head with a fish body, used as a promotional symbol by the tourist board. Singapore was originally a fishing village but its original name was Singapura meaning lion city. The other picture is one you may have seen before and I’ll leave you to decide which is which.
UNBELIEVABLE HISTORY
Now it is said that George V didn’t like to sit to have his portrait painted, so he stood up instead. Here he is with his cousin the Kaiser on the left and his cousin the Tsar on the right. Yes, they were all related. And you know who was the common factor!
George probably didn’t think he’d become king until his elder brother Edward (yes, another one) died of pneumonia and the year after that he married the German princess Mary of Tek – a cousin and granddaughter of King George III. She’d previously been intended for big brother Edward so they passed her on so to speak. Honestly, being a princess isn’t all frills, flouncy dresses and dancing at balls, it’s more like the local meat market – aristocratic breeding and good child-bearing hips. Where did Disney get those silly ideas from? Which brings me very neatly to …
BOOKS
I’ve been tossing up whether to do a follow up to Unhappily Ever After. As it is, it’s a stand alone with all the loose ends wrapped up. It tells the story of how Cinderella decided to get a divorce from King Charming. No one ever questioned how this commoner, from the wrong side of the tracks, would fit into a royal household, and of course, she didn’t. All that protocol was too much for her, the other royals hated her, and she didn’t even produce a male heir only one princess who had a preference for other princesses. I guess my next project will come to me in the shower or other inconvenient place and by the time I’ve grabbed a towel, I’ll have forgotten what it was!
If you feel like a good laugh, here is the link http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DPVB4M8
Till next week, take care.
lucinda E Clarke 
It is a good laugh too, cleverly plotted and neatly narrated. Definitely worth a Sunday afternoon’s read on the sofa, with a glass of champoo and some nuts. But watch it with the nuts, you’re going to laugh a lot and you don’t want to choke!
From: lucinda E Clarke Reply-To: lucinda E Clarke Date: Monday, 28 August 2017 at 18:03 To: Gabi Plumm Subject: [New post] (MER)LION AND LEADERS
Lucinda E Clarke posted: “Once I’d dragged DH out of the fort, we discovered the island was a mini Disneyland. Spotlessly clean, as you’d expect and I was too busy rubber necking to take many pictures. The cable car stopped at several levels and you could get out and explore at”
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I’ve not promoted it for ages! Almost forgotten I’d written it 🙂
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I would like to visit Singapore some day. By the way the second series about your ‘favourite’ Royal started last night!
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Ah yes I noticed we taped it and will watch it in an evening all at once – saves time as we don’t spend the first half trying to remember who is who and what has happened 🙂
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Enjoy!
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Well, the photos you did take were nice. Good luck with the book.
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Thank you Janice 🙂
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