As I said on my rather odd Sunday Selections post featuring a train bed,
"This Sunday not so random but photos I took last winter as I wandered around the Queen Victoria
Gardens."
There is a statue of Queen Victoria looking her usual grumpy self, but it is at a distance and I have showed you her statue before.
Our floral clock, a gift from the watchmakers of Zurich. I don't think Zurich paid for maintenance. The flower beds are replanted twice a year.
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The plaque says Switzerland, so why did I say Zurich? I'm sure there is a reason.
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A fountain jet of the Walker fountain is visible. Ron Waker who paid for the fountain was a bit of a Trump like person and while he was a VIP, I really disliked him. He lived nearby at The Domain and I saw him once as he left the garage in a black sports car with its roof lowered. Maybe Trump picked up his wig hair styling from Ron Walker.
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A Trump of our own? Shudder.
ReplyDeleteI suspect I would often go to those gardens if I lived nearby. I am also shocking about British royalty.
It is a nice garden EC, hemmed in to the east and south by other beautiful gardens.
DeleteI remembered the Murdoch media loves to pump up Ron Walker as some sort of legend when I was younger. The typical over privileged brat with too much ego. I am starting to miss Melbourne Parks and streets after 3rd day in Taipei.
ReplyDeleteRoentare, I am not saying he was corrupt but he knew how to work the system, and of course once head of the Australian Grand Prix and the dreadful Crown Casino.
DeleteOne of my favorite things is wandering through gardens:) One Trump is more than enough. Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteSandra, it is a lovely, calming and mind clearing thing to do.
DeleteWhile I wish we didn't have Hair Furor h ere, I wouldn't wish him on anyone else ... well, maybe Russia and China.
ReplyDeleteThanks for not wishing him on us Bob, but his actions affected the world too.
DeleteHair fuhrer! That is fall down funny. I would be glad to foist him off on anybody. He has a beautiful friendship with Putin and Kim Il Jung...i wonder if they want him?
ReplyDeleteIt is clever Anon. Yeah, let him live in North Korea with his mate Kim Il.
DeleteThings got a bit busy in the british royal family in the early 20th century. Queen Vic lived a bit too long so her successors kept dropping of the perch and one of them chucked a wobbly and told everyone to sod off and he went and lived in France. I wonder if the same will happen now.
ReplyDeleteMerlot, I think one of current chucked a wobbly and went to live in another country with a foreign type.
DeleteHe chucked a wobbly because his brother had kids so he would never be king and his foreign bit wanted to be queen. Or something.
DeleteZurich is in Switzerland, so close enough for me. Edward V11 Born November 9th 1841, reigned from 1901 to 1910, when he died, was the great grandfather of Elizabeth 11, his whole history is right there on Google. So many children and grandchildren and the great grands....it's a good thing someone invented television, or we might all have such a line up!
ReplyDeleteRiver, I can read the information but I trouble to process it and doesn't sink in. I think there is a clue to my confusion in Fun60's comment, Edward VII was known as Bertie. Lol about the invention of tv and it's partly quite true I suspect.
DeleteWasn't the Marquis of Linlithgow the first governor of Victoria? Before Federation, he must have been important.
ReplyDeleteHels, it seems the first governor was Charles Hotham, hence Hotham Street, which I am sure you know well. I am curious now. Right, Linlithgow was a Victorian Governor and Australia's first Governor General. Further, Linlithgow doesn't doesn't appear in the official list of Victorian Governors. I am over it now.
DeleteThe horseman, he looks older than 9. Maybe the statue is really in honor of the horse, who is 9. screw the human up top.
ReplyDeleteI like your thinking, Strayer.
DeleteThe photos are lovely Andrew.
ReplyDeleteThanks Margaret. I hope all is good with you.
DeleteEdward VII was Queen Victoria's son. Known as Bertie he became king when she died. Edward VII was the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II
ReplyDeleteFun60, Edward VII was known as Bertie, so was his real name Albert? I am fairly sure QV had a son called Albert. If so, that is where my confusion arises.
DeleteBeautiful blue skies in your photographs. We have grey skies and drizzle again today!
ReplyDeleteJB, it looks like a crisp and cold but sunny winter's day to me, but they are photos from last year, so I can't remember.
DeleteI agree with jabblog ! Same here ! the grumpy Victoria sits in nearly all towns in England and apparently she sits in your country too. Ah yes the famous Commonwealth ! It looks all very pretty ! I like the royals and their tragic histories but only since King Edward dared to marry a divorced American and left the thrown to his brother George the ??
ReplyDeleteGattina, oh yes, Queen Victoria statues are plentiful. I wonder how the royal history over the last few decades will be viewed, well into the future.
DeleteCan we send you - oh I can't utter that name? Australia used to take in exiles. You can keep him and all of his money, if he really has any.
ReplyDeleteTP, I wonder if his finances are just a house of cards?
DeleteNo doubt someone above has said this already, but Edward VII was Queen Victoria's son, on the throne after her death and until the ascension of his son George V. He was not the Edward who abdicated -- that was Edward VIII, son of George V. Edward VIII was QE2's uncle. Clear as mud?
ReplyDeleteSteve, thanks. What I don't get is Bertie, Prince Albert? became Edward VII? A name change.
DeleteYeah, I guess his name was Albert Edward, and he was known as Bertie, but he took the name Edward VII upon coronation. Maybe he didn't like the sound of "King Albert."
DeleteI giggled immaturely at "phallic stuff" as I had the thought of Queen Victoria and her sour puss enduring so much of it in her begetting years.
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WWW, given her fondness for her gardener and her Indian tutor, maybe it wasn't a case of enduring.
DeleteMaybe that's why Edward was called Bertie? Wasn't the gardener an Albert?
DeleteRiver, he was a John something....Brown.
DeleteI'm not familiar with the Marquis of Linlithgow either and I also doubt if I will learn more about him:) Have a grand one, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
Thanks Sandra.
DeleteWe had to learn all those English royalty things in school probably more than our own Canadian history.
ReplyDeleteYou have made me decide to head out to a park tomorrow morning for a spring walkabout, Andrew.
Pat, I don't think I had very much of royal history at all, otherwise I might know more. The history I was taught wasn't too bad, with a good bit about early civilisations and Australian history.
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