The benches of Portsmouth
This entry was posted on November 5, 2007
I was fortunate enough to visit Lil down in Portsmouth this weekend, and I was surprised and intrigued by all the different benches they have. I had my trusty camera me, so here are pictures!
A pretty normal looking bench. (That shadow is me trying to duck)
A fairly normal-looking picnic bench as well, no? This bench is at the top of a hill just on the outside of Portsmouth. There’s a country lane with random carparks all along it where you can pull up and look out at the gorgeous sea view. It’s amazing.
This is what I like to call a “wiggly bench”. I’m not really sure why the seat is wiggly; maybe it’s designed for people with huge buttocks? They can put one buttock on each dip in the wiggly bench?
It’s a bench shaped like a grasshopper! This strange bench can be found in a village just outside of Portsmouth; I squealed when I saw it. It’s a bench, but it’s shaped like a grasshopper!
The mother of all benches! It’s on the seafront (well, ish. It’s on a hill behind a wall next to the sea front), it’s made of stone, it has a shadow of Lil, it’s near the “wiggly benches”, it’s an amazing bench! Built to withstand harsh winds, salty sea air, and vandals, this is one mother of a bench!
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Ooh, I like the wiggly bench and the mother of all benches. I don’t have any interesting benches where I live… I barely have any benches at all! (Quick, how many times did I use the word “bench” in that paragraph?)
Lovely benches, that last one really is something. 
And the grasshopper is awesome!
You need to get out more 
Lovely benches…
Those are very interesting benches. Here benches are boringly squared.
My favourite is the last one. 
Did you test-sit on them all?
I wish I could sit on those! Very cool benches
I like the wiggly bench.
In Tennessee, there was this couch on the sidewalk made ENTIRELY OUT OF BRICKS! And, amazingly enough, it was rather comfortable.
After reading the word bench so many times, it suddenly seems so foreign. Me likes the grasshopper
i heart the last one lol
I thought the grasshopper one was rather cute. Maybe more a kinder garden sort of bench, but still
They look good I haven’t seen the grasshopper and the wiggly one, but the rest are all pretty standard to me
It’s no wonder Lil’s an alcoholic if all there is in Portsmouth are benches.
^ Lmao. She didn’t drink the whole time I was down there! And Portsmouth isn’t just benches. It’s a beautiful city - I’m saving the nicer pictures for another time though.
Bobbi-lee: Yeah, me too. After writing it so many times, it began to seem alien. Most words are like that if you think about them for too long.
Those are really good pictures. I love the grasshopper one, it’s so cute!
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Lil said:
Next time I’ll take you to see the other weird benches where I live and the ones on the high street which are funky. I blame alcoholism.