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The Riverside pub, Tuckton, Dorset UK.
Such a lost opportunity
I think I can safely guarantee, that in ANY country on this planet, other than the UK, the place where this (typically British) sign sits, would be the start of a set of steps.
So, Mitchell & Butler, here’s the idea you missed. The steps I mentioned above would lead down to a wooden jetty / landing stage. It’s lit up in the evenings, and from May to October small boats, paddle-boarders, kayakers et al, use this entrance to join you, and partake of your £18.25 -plus Burgers.
Yes, the council will need to be involved, yes, the boat hire guys down the road will love you, yes the place will become (and not claim falsely) to be a ‘premier’ destination, and yes it’ll take work & money. Sorry, just money – no-one at Mitchell & Butler’s will actually be knee deep in the River Stour with a hammer, I presume.
The full height locking gate ‘up’ from said Jetty opens at midday, and closes when the kitchen stops. Simple idea, yet transformative.
Never mind the fate of life on Earth, what about the cat-children?
Truly iconic writing, the week that just was . . . . . If I could come up with stuff like this, well . . . . Then I’d be able to come up with stuff like this.
How about NEVER?
The country stopped caring whether Boris Johnson broke the rules – thank goodness the civil service didn’t
Consequently, a portion of the public also felt ‘hang the rules – I’ll do what I like’.
NEWS! Italy, East Germany, Bretagne France, all leaving the Euro zone!
Most mornings I’m up around 6am – Sundays included.
Radio 4 is particularly easy on the ear at this time of day.
So is it this channel that provides this astonishing scoop?
No.
It’s the rain-trails in the dirt of the van parked opposite.
I grab Klicky McKlikface (my camera – dunno, just seemed funny a few weeks ago)
It’s the SHAPE isn’t it – just LOOK at it.
Risking near certain death at the hands of partner who loves to sleep-in on Sundays, I fire-up Captain Bogey (my PC – dunno . . . just seemed . . . ), Firefox, Google, Maps and PhotoShop – then trace round the shape.
Next up the maps, and layer the tracing across Europe as we thought we knew it . . .
Something’s wrong isn’t it? Germany I know, Italy I know – but there’s a KNOB.
There’s a KNOB sticking out over there to the West.
Ahaa – the crafty buggers, BRETAGNE – of course.
So there you have it, the new shape of Europe, March 2017.
You heard it here first.
Night Agent
Brilliant series, let down by its final episode, which sort of imploded into mediocre.
Spring at last.
We managed 13° in Sunshine Friday (17/03) it felt like prising a door of possibilities open, just a hint. Cormorants drying their wings high up in a tree on the bank of the river Stour, where I live. That sun on the face – a real gift.
We’ve all been ‘running on empty’ for months.
Millions paid in bonuses to UK Silicon Valley Bank staff days after £1 rescue
Rip-off Britain
Lite Bytes from Steve Evans 