I love the description of the Ryan Gate in the auction:
"Ryan Gate is a slightly impluasible Lebanese deli in Worcester Park consist of range of services; pizza making, greengrocery, bakery, butchery (sic), kebabs, burgers, hot Lebanese delicacies and a coffee shop. Oh, and wedding cakes. It has been opened since october of 2005."
I'm not 100% sure whether it's a prank or not but I'll keep my eye on it.....
Anyway, there's a lot of other stuff to pack in today so let's get to it!!
For those following the Special Needs Transport changes proposal the Sutton Guardian has an article in it this week which I've scanned in and you can see by clicking on the image below:
On the subject of Sutton Council the leader of the Conservative Group, Paul Scully, has blogged to say that the £35 garden waste charge is on its way out after a belated consultation exercise. I won't shed any tears for it though I have to say that the glass recycling hasn't been better and the fears of yobs sucking the dregs from booze bottles before hurling them through windows hasn't materialised, at least in Brinkley Road anyway.
Just a reminder that there's a reprise of the 400 Years of Worcester Park exhibition tomorrow, and I even posted the info to the Local Guardian website!
The X26 bus is a familiar sight in Worcester Park plying its trade between Croydon and Heathrow and apparently they will be changing the timetable in November to every half hour instead of every hour between 7am and 7pm, which will make it a more viable option for getting to the airport for holidaymakers (though not early morning commuters)
I can't move on without a mention for Talk Like A Pirate Day next Friday, the 19th. Ye have been warned!!!
Those with a keen eye and poor time management may have noticed that at the bottom of the right hand column there's now a feed from my Twitter page, which I'm using to record random thoughts that don't necessarily warrant a full post. I'll see if I can overcome my inner luddite to make it useful.
No Friday news slot would be complete without its closing bizarre article and it's always more funny to point out other people's peculiarities rather than your own so in that vein I was searching for a postcode earlier I stumbled across http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/ which explains the theology of adherents like so:
"The database contains records of Ordnance Survey bench marks, with particular focus on the numbered flush brackets which appear on walls and buildings across Britain. In addition, fundamental bench marks, projecting brackets, tidal observatories, and other bench marks are also included, to help give a more complete picture of the levelling lines."
Say what?
Anyway, I now know what the Second geodetic levelling was though I can't say that I feel particularly enriched by the knowledge, in fact I feel somewhat violated by the thought that someone may mention it in conversation one day and I'll actually know what the hell they're on about..... I'm sure they're lovely people but..........
Have a great weekend and perhaps I'll bump into you at the history exhibition tomorrow
6 comments:
I'm tracking it in ebay too, could be a last minute bidding war looming.
The Parkerilla
The text was lifted straight from the Worcester Park Blog - either it is a hoax or the owners don't have sufficient grasp of English to realise what I wrote about their beloved store!
Hmmm..... yes. They did pretty much lift it verbatim (including the typo) so the question remains as to whether it's the owners who decided that your eloquent description could not be bettered or some prankster who's for mischief.
Its funny, if it was any other shop in WP it would obviously be a hoax but because its Ryan Gate you never know, anything could happen. Despite not saying what you are bidding for, the business? Do you get the name? The stock? Most importantly do you want to assign the existing lease and how long remains, terms, rental obligations? Those are the starting point questions and they're not mentioned so its a hoax, but because its Ryan Gate maybe its not?
The bench marks quote reminds me of that famous quote from from the taxation statutes-
"In the Nuts (unground), (other than ground nuts) Order, the expression nuts shall have reference to such nuts, other than ground nuts, as would but for this amending Order not qualify as nuts (unground) (other than ground nuts) by reason of their being nuts (unground)."
The Ground Nuts (Unground) Order 1948
i texted the number given to ask if it really was for sale, but no reply yet!
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