Reasons to be Cheerful

This is the Ian Dury solar-powered park bench memorial in Poet’s Corner, Richmond Park, south west London. I don’t think it works any more (the bench was unveiled in 2002), but visitors were able to plug in headphones and listen to eight Dury songs and an interview with the singer, who died of cancer in 2000. Ian Dury apparently spent many happy hours in Richmond Park with his family. The bench was designed by product designer Mil Strichevic (though it looks like a normal bench, on the armrests are solar panels with headphone sockets on the sides).