Thursday 19 May 2016

Floating care homes

There was a fine picture of a monstrous floating care home in yesterday's Guardian - although this one from the Metro at reference 1 makes a better illustration here.

I assume that this site belongs to the people who knock out the free newspaper, that well known job creation scheme for the (zero hours contract?) cleaners for Southwest Trains. I had thought that it might say at the bottom, but it turned out to be a bottomless web page, bottomless in the sense that you never seem to be able to get to the bottom of it. Is it programmed for dynamic extension as you try?

One of the other pictures offered by google showed how it looks from one of the interior rooms with balcony, probably well inside the dark opening at the back, middle left above. For all the world like how it looks from one of the interior flats with balcony at St. George's Wharf at Vauxhall - not a view on which they seem to major at reference 3.

I was reminded of how awful I would find it to be cooped up with more than 5,000 other senior souls on board one of these things. And that is without even thinking about the food one would have to put up with. Not only awful, but I would be paying good money, perhaps even more than I would pay for a care home on dry land.

Then how awful it would be in one of those picturesque, unspoilt villages at which you are landed, a landing complete with a visit to a typical peasant farmer and his horned oxen. One almost feels sorry for the peasant farmers, but I suppose it actually pays a lot better than olives, or whatever it was that they used to do for a living in the olden days.

And lastly, how awful it would be to be cooped up for a day or so in one of their natty 500 person life rafts - nine of which can be seen lined up above the right hand tug above. See reference 2.

Altogether, very how awful. The only ray of sunshine being all the cabaret & floor show jobs created for all the dancers graduating from our Laine Theatre Arts, here at Epsom.

Reference 1: http://metro.co.uk/.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/worried-of-epsom.html.

Reference 3: http://www.stgeorgewharf.net/.

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