Woolpack, Ipswich
The Woolpack is a pub which is within walking distance of the town centre of Ipswich.
I was having a drink in the pub before the football on Tuesday and the landlady informed me that her husband, the chef, cooked everything from scratch and knew all about gluten-free food.
I think I’ll try the pub next time I’m in the town for a meal.
Julie and Julia
I went to see this film last night in The Hague. I liked it and hadn’t realised that it was also about blogging and Senator McCarthy. Will we ever see a film that covers those two topics again? I doubt it, but never say never.
I found it strange though to see a film in English, where part of the dialogue was in French, with Dutch sub-titles. It took me some time to get the hang of ignoring them.
Meryl Streep must now hold some sort of record for playing someone, who in real life was some twenty centimetres taller than she is!
Busway Farce Goes National
The national press has been rather quiet on the Cambridge Busway. Perhaps, here in East Anglia, we’re rather irrelevant or perhaps Cambridge is just somewhere you pass by on the way to your second home in Norfolk. The truth about Cambridge is actually much more important, as without it we’d all be further into the do-dah than we are.
But today, the infamous signwriting error has been reported in both the Daily Mail and The Telegraph. It’s even in the Odd News on UPI.
Obviously, spelling is much more important news than a badly executed project with massive cost overruns.
The Cambridge Gutterway
This letter to the local paper talks about the green credentials of the Cambridge Busway. In fact the writer is not very impressed, but as he is the chairman of CAST.IRON, which is a group that campaigns for a real rail service on the route, this is probably to be expected. On the other hand, it certainly looks like that group may well have been right on a lot of things, including costs.
But what I like is his use of the term “gutterway” for the busway. After all it’s effectively a long concrete channel, that has generated large amounts of cardon dioxide and absorbed lots and lots of money.
The Anonymous Widower 