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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