LO7T - Lists of 7 Things: 19/06/2011

Saturday, 25 June 2011 7 bands with body parts in their names

As this is post 1666, here are 7 facts about the tragic events of London 1666

The fire started at Thomas Farrier's bakery on Pudding Lane
The fire destroyed 70000 of the cities 80000 inhabitants homes
Amazingly only 6 deaths were recorded, although there were probably many more that weren't recorded amongst the poor and middle-classes
The heat from the fire melted the iron locks and chains of the city gates
The fire burned for 4 days straight
The fire eventually burned itself out when it reached the stone walls of the city
After the fire Christopher Wren designed 51 churches, including St Paul's to replace ones destroyed in the blaze

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The discovery of a Japanese Crested Iris in the garden
The ladybird pupa monsters metamorphosing
Mottle, the Blackbird nicking some cat-food that we leave out for the hedgehog
Sherman the Wood Pigeon falling in the pond
Pretty, the Duck knocking on the patio window with her beak to point out the the dish on the patio was out of seed
The Lazarus rose that has flowered in the front garden after it was unsuccessfully uprooted and moved to the back garden
Red Kites swooping down to take food from the plinth we built for them