Little Eye On The Provinces

[phantasmagoriana]

Man has to walk because his ridiculous vehicle isn't ready yet.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/grandad-forced-school-run-rain-23777718

[Kim]

Man has to walk because his ridiculous vehicle isn't ready yet.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/grandad-forced-school-run-rain-23777718

Normal for Birmingham, where people get tribal anything that's got wheels and has 'Rover' in the name, the way they do about sportsball teams^[1] in other places.


_{[1] Not to diminish the importance of The Blues or The Villa, obviously.}

[Cudzoziemiec]

I know new cars depreciate fast but £10k between headline and text is really impressive.

[Beardy]

Why would he need any car, let alone a Land Rover to do the school run if he’s able to do it on foot? No wonder we’ve got global walking.

[Mr Larrington]

Isn’t global walking what he’s complaining about?

[phantasmagoriana]

Why would he need any car, let alone a Land Rover to do the school run if he’s able to do it on foot? No wonder we’ve got global walking.

But...it might rain!

Someone should tell him about umbrellas.

[Kim]

Why would he need any car, let alone a Land Rover to do the school run if he’s able to do it on foot? No wonder we’ve got global walking.

But...it might rain!

Someone should tell him about umbrellas.

Regular readers might recall that when all the proper cities were getting bike hire schemes, Birmingham got a Smart car hire scheme...


Car2Go - An Umbrella on Wheels by Elliott Brown, on Flickr

It lasted about a year...

We’ve listened closely to customer feedback and taking the UK’s strong culture and tradition of private vehicle ownership into account, we have decided to withdraw from the UK marketplace.

BRITISH car culture notwithstanding, there was the fundamental flaw in an hourly rate equivalent to a taxi, and cars you couldn't use to move Stuff.

[mllePB]

Delays expected in Stratford due to motoring festival 

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/live-delays-expected-stratford-due-23836689

[rogerzilla]

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2021/04/30/this-furious-note-left-on-a-village-library-making-everyones-day-better/

[Beardy]

The Loch Ness monster is real.

‘It looked better in real life than it’s turned out on the photos’ said every Nessie spotter ever.

[Mr Larrington]

That's nearly as convincing as the photo of Ogopogo I snapped a few years ago:


Ogopogo in 2018, yesterday by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

[rogerzilla]

The sun comes out and so do Swindon's multitudinous public wankers.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20126890.police-respond-two-calls-indecent-exposure-swindon-beauty-spots-day/

[andrewc]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-61412523


Tory Club Death Match. 


False advertising, nobody died.

[andrewc]

https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/why-has-the-adelphi-become-liverpools


Slow death of a hotel.  It could be magnificent if someone would spend the money.

[rogerzilla]

Britannia Hotels are über-pikey.  I've stayed in the Bolton one.  There are notices telling you not to do drugs or to start on the staff.