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Flyfisher · Nov 19, 2009

The mnid payls smoe pcuelair tirkcs wehn it ceoms to radenig and seplinlg.

philpjuk100 · Nov 19, 2009

As lads we found a roll of insulation tape could be used to produce an"i" on TO LET signs to turn them into TOILET,well it used to amuse us anyway! phil.

Gareth Hughes · Nov 19, 2009

Feltwell said:
Jon Maine said:

I have this horrible habit of flash reading things and missing out on the full spelling sometimes just taking letters from two consecutive words and reordering to achieve a word which looks similar...........

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:lol:

With mini-Feltwell No.3 due to put an appearance in around 8 weeks time, please don't mention gelding to Mrs F....... :shock:

Re. Scunthorpe - yep, can't argue, but have you been to Grimsby???

(Cue outraged defenders of Grimsby)

On my business travels, I think it's a contest between Slough and Milton Keynes for my least favourite destination.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...shopping-zone-at-centre-of-culture-clash.html
Needless to say, I'm for listing it (and, which may surprise the naysaying fools quoted in that article,

But Robert Goodman, director of the centre, said: “Listing it would be short-sighted, preserving nondescript and characterless 1970s architecture at the cost of a shopping centre that is currently 100 per cent let and performing well in what is a difficult retail climate.”

He said that the complex accounted for more than 10 per cent of the entire centre of Milton Keynes, the equivalent to placing a preservation order on the whole of Mayfair and Soho in the capital.

A spokesman for the centre’s tenants’ association also poured scorn on its architectural merits.

“It is not an example of outstanding architecture, it is a regional shopping centre which hosts over 240 businesses.

"If it is listed what will be next? Car parks, airports?”

there already are listed airports and carparks, and almost 90% of the entire City of Westminster is "protected" in some form, whether by listing or being a conservation area)

Penners · Nov 19, 2009

Feltwell said:
I think it's a contest between Slough and Milton Keynes for my least favourite destination.

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html

Feltwell · Nov 19, 2009

I wouldn't like to comment on the architectural merits of Milton Keynes shopping centre. It's the grid pattern streets I hate - so characterless and uniform, even if they are easy to navigate.

Jill · Nov 19, 2009

JoceAndChris said:
Oi! Taking the pee out of that place is banned! You will upset Jill again!

I doesn't upset me, that is the place that pays my wages and hopefully will do for a long time yet.

Chuckey never did say if he had ever been to Scunthorpe when he was slagging it off, there are some bad areas that I don't like to venture into. There are alot of worse places i'm sure, having to travel through Northampton once was enough for me.

Thinking about it there are ALOT of areas in Scunthorpe that I won't venture into!

judrop · Nov 19, 2009

:roll: Why do I have this strange urge to visit Scunthorpe now ? No I have never been , what am I missing out on ? I recently visited Hull for the first time, to find a wealth of beautiful old buildings and a very impressive new one ,The Deep. What joys await in Scunthorpe I wonder ? :wink:

judrop · Nov 19, 2009

Flyfisher said:
The mnid payls smoe pcuelair tirkcs wehn it ceoms to radenig and seplinlg.

:lol: :lol: :lol: I thought for a minute I had suddenly developed dislexia !!

Nigel Watts · Nov 19, 2009

Jill said:
having to travel through Northampton once was enough for me.

I once had to stay there for several weeks on business. The only interesting building I can remember was the circular Norman church - one of only three in the country I think, the other two being in Cambridge and the Temple in London.

The Humber bridge is nice. That's near Scunthorpe I think.

robgil · Nov 19, 2009

i went to slough once, it depressed me so i left , a tad quicker than i arrived..

Jill · Nov 19, 2009

judrop said:
What joys await in Scunthorpe I wonder ?

erm, I'll have to think about that one! Nothing springs to mind at the moment. Yes Nigel the Humber bridge isn't too far away.

If anyone is thinking of travelling in this direction then Lincoln and York are good places to visit.

philpjuk100 · Nov 19, 2009

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough,( Betjeman) sorry it just came to mind,phil.

Jon Maine · Nov 19, 2009

I have not been to Scunthorpe, is it similar to Grimsby?

DaveBrigg · Nov 19, 2009

Nigel Watts said:
The Humber bridge is nice. That's near Scunthorpe I think.

The Humber bridge links Barton on the south bank and Hull on the north, making it the longest single span suspension bridge in the world between two places that no-one wants to visit.
Scunthorpe is different from Grimsby in that it doesn't smell of fish. Grimsby is different from Scuthorpe in that it doesn't have a permanent brown haze hovering above it. You pays your money and you takes your pick.
Incidently, the best bit about the steelworks is that in cold weather the chimneys act as snow machines. The water vapour freezes and nature lays a white blanket over the grubbiest corner of North Lincs.

philpjuk100 · Nov 19, 2009

My wife and I have been to HULL and back! quite enjoyed it! phil.

Jon Maine · Nov 19, 2009

philpjuk100 said:
My wife and I have been to HULL and back! quite enjoyed it! phil.

Which bit both or just the back bit :lol: :lol:

Ushy M · Nov 20, 2009

Nigel Watts said:
Jill said:

having to travel through Northampton once was enough for me.

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I once had to stay there for several weeks on business. The only interesting building I can remember was the circular Norman church.

I have to leap (belatedly) to Northampton's defence here. It had 2 devastating fires in 1516 and 1675 and few really old buildings survive - these include the church Nigel mentions. However it has got what I believe was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's last commission, the re-modelling of 78 Derngate for W.J Bassett-Lowke, of model trains fame - which looks incredibly futuristic and is well worth a visit:

http://www.78derngate.org.uk/

Also the Life and Sole Gallery at the Museum (honestly more interesting than it sounds) with a nationally important collection of boots and shoes (I bet Joce would love the 18th Century section) and index of concealed shoes, kept since the 1950s - they apparently receive an average of one shoe a month, often concealed in chimneys.

http://www.northampton.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=311

Nigel Watts · Nov 20, 2009

I was not aware of the Mackinstosh building then - I agree it is a gem. It's also thanks to Northampton that I am quite well shod - virtually every pair of shoes I own was made there.

My sojourn in Northampton was perhaps 20 years ago on an assignment for Berni Inns, a subsidiary of Grand Metropolian. Every evening I had to eat at a Berni or one of its competitors - a depressing culinary experience of the Supersize me kind. This may well have coloured my judgement.

Northamptonshire, of course, is gloriously endowed with country houses. Boughton tops my lists at present of ones I want to visit.

Penners · Nov 20, 2009

judrop said:
I thought for a minute I had suddenly developed dislexia !!

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you have.

Schoolmarm · Nov 20, 2009

:lol: :lol:

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