Our society has a wonderful membership – a diverse aggregation who enjoy a shared enthusiasm for big wooden sticks with wires coming out of the top.
One friend, member and regular correspondent is Carter Wall (#0487H) – a Massachutetian* Managing Director of a Boston energy company. So what she doesn’t know about poles with wires on could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Not only does Carter’s executive boardroom status lend some high-ranking legitimacy to our membership, but she also has friends who are professors. Now, to the rest of us, a professor is someone who didn’t stare out of the window during school lessons, did all their homework and who put their hand up because they knew the answers and not because they needed the toilet.
And it was Carter’s professorial friend Kate Lingley from the University of Hawaii who took this photo for us. She was on a business trip (see, that’s what you also get for paying attention at school) and like me, was amazed at this tangle of electricity. (click image to enlarge)
Carter has thoughtfully provided the address of this pole of entanglement as she feels that certain of our membership may like to arrange pilgrimage there. It is at the corner of Dongzongbu Hutong and Gongyuan Xiadjie in the Dongcheng district, Beijing. I’d be prepared to forego our usual week at Mrs Meredith’s guest house in Aberystwyth if I could find some suitably similar accommodation in Beijing and could persuade Mrs TPAS of the merits in this as an interesting alternative.
By the way, I’m told that Prof. Lingley and friends – presumably even more professors – were suitably impressed to hear about our society. Well who wouldn’t be?
* I made up that spelling