The Outside World

For the enquiring minds...

The camera is pointing South, out onto Long Riding, facing the houses opposite us. There are two infant/junior schools and one senior school nearby, so from 8.15am-8.45am and 3pm-3.30pm there will be lots of kids walking outside. We're also on the main bus route in Basildon, the #8, which drives laps around the area. They should run every ten minutes in both directions, hence it looking like there are so many. We don't have proper school buses out here either, so you won't see them.

Emergency vehicles - the police are usually blue-and-white, while ambulances are green-and-yellow (there is one outside as I write this), and fire engines - well, you can't miss those.

Long Riding is a fairly long residential area with various shops and a pub dotted along this half of it - you can't drive the entire length as the middle is Buses and Emergency Vehicles only. The road has estates on either side of it, some council, some private, making it a fairly busy road. With this map, the red dot is pretty much our house.

You can view this at Google Maps here.

As for time zones and what-not, we're currently in British Summer Time (BST) for another 3-4 weeks, until the clocks go back. Generally, we're an hour behind most of europe, 10 hours behind Australia and 12 hours behind New Zealand. Americas, we're 5 hours ahead of the East Coast, and 8 hours ahead of the West Coast. No idea about you Central timezoners. I'm sure you can figure it out.

And yes, that IS the Blood-Red-House-Of-Hatred out there...

Other than that, welcome to my street!

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4 Responses to “The Outside World”

Minge said...

I can't see the camera!

Mark said...

Vrmmmm, Vrmmmm, Vrmmmm just thought I'd add the sound effect.

Laney said...

I still can't see it. :(

Gretchen said...

Very nice!