Big wheel keeps on turning

If you look very carefully in the centre of this photo you'll see a Big Wheel.

Every December there's a 'Winter Wonderland' - fairground by any other name - in town, and the Big Wheel is a major feature of it. But now the Big Wheel has been transported to the pier, where it seems to be making its home.

When I first noticed it I thought I liked it but I've gone off it. The landscape, the two islands that allegedly gave Mumbles its name*, are iconic and spoiled I think by the Wheel. It seems popular though.

I was thinking about that as I drove to Mumbles this morning, but on the way back I was drawn into the radio programme. Did you know that John Wilkes Booth's father's name was Julius Brutus Booth? Fascinating programme about drama and theatre and politics. And also about the way the questions put to immigrants on arriving in America changed, in the late 19th century I think, from just general questions about homeland and occupation to questions with a racial aspect. 

Things come and go around and we don't learn. 

And, as Storm Kathleen is threatening us, allegedly, I thought I'd better get a photo of my tulips, even though they're not fully out in case they don't survive.

* Mumbles is said to have been named by French sailors, who on sailing into the bay noticed the resemblance of the two islands to 'les mamelles', or breasts.