Private Thoughts Made Public

Annie posted yesterday about an area of outstanding natural beauty near her home. So I decided to find it on Google Earth. Now I want to visit it and see for myself how stunning it must look. Maybe one day…
I know Google Earth has been out for a little while but it’s only in the last week or so I’ve been having a play with it. Yes, you don’t have to tell me, I’m not exactly cutting-edge, never have been, never will be. But I don’t mind not being cutting-edge. I knows what I likes.
Back to the point of Google Earth, I’m impressed. Very very VERY impressed. I looked at a similar program last year, NASA WorldWind, and although the two aren’t exactly like-for-like, I think I prefer the Google version. For a start, it’s only a 10Mb download instead of a 180Mb download. Also, the images load up quickly whereas the NASA one seemed to have a lot of server problems. Admittedly I’ve not looked at the NASA product for several months, so I don’t know if they’ve got that bit sorted out yet. I also like the fact that Google Earth shows better quality satellite photos of the UK, specifically the bit I live in. I can make out my house quite clearly.
So, can you see your house on Google Earth? And if so, can you let me know where it is? I’m curious! Position the cursor over your house (or as close as you want to get it) and email me the co-ordinates, or leave them in the comments if you don’t mind other people taking a look. And to start the ball rolling, I’ll tell you that I live close to this park here:
53 34 2.82N 2 18 48.58W
or, depending on how you’ve got Google Earth set up:
53.567453 -2.313508
Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Earth’s search box and you should see some houses around a triangular patch of land. I live in one of those houses. Now that’s what I call a neat program!