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The story behind the plaque: The Roger Bucklesby Bench Plaque – In the middle of August 2013, Jamie Maslin, (a British author, adventurer and bushcraft survival instructor) reportedly installed this plaque in a London park to his fictional character Roger Bucklesby – a misanthropic failed author. The bench plaque reads, "In memory of Roger Bucklesby who hated this park, and everyone in it." The image was originally posted on a Twitter account under the description "I was walking through London and came across this bench" and within hours its image went viral, receiving over 2 million views on image sharing website Imgur, thousands of retweets and over half a million likes on Facebook with ten thousand corresponding comments. "We had no plans for this to turn into an internet hit" said Maslin, "we just hoped the occasional passerby would see it and have a giggle. It seems we've done plenty of that."

Hopefully designer sunglasses are included for this price. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1787-George-III-Shilling-VERY-RARE-1-OVER-MIRRORED-1-Superb-coin-see-photos/233588897551?hash=item3662fbb70f:g:k3EAAOSwh5pevrRM

No Sir. That's what it went for at D.N.W.

Just heard there will be some clapping for Vera Lynn. Don't know where, don't know when.

Excellent article by the editor, in the June 2020 edition of "Coin News" about this issue. It appears that the anti cash brigade are attempting to accelerate its demise by using the excuse of cash being a potentially unhealthy carrier of Covid 19. Although most people and stores are still accepting cash because they would lose a certain percentage of trade if they didn't, and at the moment they need every penny they can get (no pun intended). As the florist who was interviewed last night said "if I had a £50 bouquet and someone offered me a £50 note, of course I'm going to accept it".

we have our own "pyramids"' here in wiltshire with both silbury hill and avebury both, along with stonehenge are pretty impressive

Yes, it is good and would definitely fool some. A little work on convexing the shield and improving the lighthouse detail would probably have it fooling many more.

That reminds me Mike, I was once asked to come up with a list of 10 sexual innuendoes... I inadvertently came up with 11, so I had to rub one out.