Thursday 27 January 2011

About the High Street … Again …

Weird, isn’t it … ?

You put up an innocent post about the High Street, and immediately have a local councillor get in touch …

Bless her, I’ve just had Councillor Chilvers mail me, about the post I’d put up, yesterday.

Mostly … ?

To let me know the local Lib-dems had put up a post about the amount of shops closing in town.

Or picture gallery, I should say … !

On top of that … ?

I’ve just heard from both Kevin D and Movie Night Adrian that there’s a rumour — rumour, I should stress, on behalf of all three of us — that the local branch of Argos is to close down.

To quote the Kate Bush song, The Dreaming … ?

“Bang goes ANOTHER kanga, on the bonnet of the van”.

With the usual high pitch wails*, of course …












* Which is what I was doing, after having a browse through Brentwood Council’s website: there’s a section on the High Street, complete with a line that claims Brentwood High Street’s bus stop’s are enhanced with “real-time information”. Well, I say wails, I meant sceptical guffawing. Well, outright laughter. I’m glad I was wearing waterproof undies, I know that …

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