Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces (Read 377879 times)

Jaded · « **Reply #2375 on:** 17 March, 2021, 03:42:06 pm »

Does the sun ever shine in Swindon?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2376 on:** 17 March, 2021, 03:46:16 pm »

Only from my arse.

Beardy · « **Reply #2377 on:** 22 March, 2021, 08:33:39 am »

A little news from my neck of the woods. Given that the last time Ipswich made the nationals, a yoof had shot someone, this is quite light hearted (unless you’re a dog owner).

Dog Nappers get nabbed.

Steph · « **Reply #2378 on:** 22 March, 2021, 09:29:32 am »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56475660

Hmmm. Leicestershire...

I didn't know they had a [clears throat] branch of Ann Summers up that way. the yewf of today, how they pine for excitement, etc.

IHMCATTIW

Kim · « **Reply #2379 on:** 22 March, 2021, 01:06:28 pm »

Standard stag-night issue inflatable doll, by the look of the photo. You can probably buy them from vending machines at mainline railway stations and all good branches of Weatherspoons.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2380 on:** 24 March, 2021, 08:02:24 am »

I went to a stag do in the 90s where the stag had an inflatable sheep, apparently a reference to his Welsh ancestry. Unfortunately, he overinflated it and it had a full vaginal (or rectal - hard to tell) prolapse.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2381 on:** 25 March, 2021, 06:26:25 pm »

Just sotp it! Sotp turning the Graun into the national representative of Reach media.

andrewc · « **Reply #2382 on:** 29 March, 2021, 09:37:39 pm »

Spotted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/thebenoliver/status/1376491775729229831?s=20 Google Streetview from an estate agents website leads to pics of an armed police op.

Sounds like a lively neighbourhood.....

Edit. I checked & it's still visible on Streetview.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0015141,-0.0868932,3a,75y,195.05h,74.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3g45RawdbS71zPUKT-bjgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

JonBuoy · « **Reply #2383 on:** 29 March, 2021, 10:04:39 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 29 March, 2021, 09:37:39 pm

Spotted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/thebenoliver/status/1376491775729229831?s=20 Google Streetview from an estate agents website leads to pics of an armed police op.

Sounds like a lively neighbourhood.....

Edit. I checked & it's still visible on Streetview.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0015141,-0.0868932,3a,75y,195.05h,74.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3g45RawdbS71zPUKT-bjgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

America Lane. How appropriate!

MattH · « **Reply #2384 on:** 29 March, 2021, 10:07:24 pm »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/104614352#/

Edit: and have a look up Barn Cottage Lane on the streetview too.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2385 on:** 03 April, 2021, 07:56:43 am »

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17579831.beware-wiltshire-beauty-spots-used-dogging/

Handy doggers' guide for when the weather warms up.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2386 on:** 03 April, 2021, 09:07:03 am »

This is one of the immutable laws of the universe.

All local newspapers are obsessed with dogging.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2387 on:** 03 April, 2021, 09:08:47 am »

Don't believe me? Just checked my local paper...what do I find on front page? This...

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/gloucestershire-beauty-spot-beset-revolting-5258981

(click to show/hide)

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2388 on:** 03 April, 2021, 10:26:10 am »

Well, the "stay local" rule has been relaxed, so I'm off up the A419.

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #2389 on:** 03 April, 2021, 10:29:13 am »

Don't take the Jimny.

It'll narrow your options

The_Mikey · « **Reply #2390 on:** 03 April, 2021, 04:41:23 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 17 March, 2021, 03:42:06 pm

Does the sun ever shine in Swindon?

Sometimes but that usually only makes Swindon objectively worse.

Pingu · « **Reply #2391 on:** 08 April, 2021, 10:46:14 pm »

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/08/chainsaw-massacre-surrey-police-hunt-phantom-lumberjack-along-river-thames

Special Branch are investigating.

andrewc · « **Reply #2392 on:** 09 April, 2021, 12:26:56 am »

Tonights Liverpool Echo"has an article about a chap being done for "dog & horse porn" next to one for something called "Farmaggedon". Methinks someone's having a sly joke.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2393 on:** 09 April, 2021, 12:58:25 am »

Joke about the Dalai Farmer goes here ==>

Wowbagger · « **Reply #2394 on:** 14 April, 2021, 01:03:31 pm »

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/hugh-grant-spotted-somerset-town-5295411

Man buys food shock horror.

Jaded · « **Reply #2395 on:** 14 April, 2021, 01:22:07 pm »

Quote

The Four Weddings and a Funeral star was sighted in Frome yesterday (April 13), just days after participating in a virtual BAFTA awards ceremony in London.

That's quite a journey...

Kim · « **Reply #2396 on:** 18 April, 2021, 06:35:45 pm »

Surrey cyclists describes himself as "amateur bikepacker"

Fair. His sellotaping-all-your-touring-stuff-to-random-bits-of-the-bike technique clearly needs work.

andrewc · « **Reply #2397 on:** 22 April, 2021, 04:53:41 pm »

https://twitter.com/itvanglia/status/1385211979426578433?s=20

Air ambulances unable to land at Addenbrooke's Hospital after helipad destroyed.

Edit: https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/640016-cv-22-incident-addenbrooke-hospital.html

Ooops !

TimC · « **Reply #2398 on:** 22 April, 2021, 05:58:55 pm »

That's not a helipad. And no helicopter needs a 'pad' when there's perfectly good dry, hard grass available - as the CV-22 used. That planking was about as sturdy as your average festival tent.

Kim · « **Reply #2399 on:** 22 April, 2021, 06:32:32 pm »

Just looks like a smooth surface for wheeling patients and equipment to and from the helicopter.