Although Yeovil is in Somerset, Yeovil Junction railway Station was, until boundary changes in 1995, in Dorset.
Trains, trains, trains. You can find out just what a joke the privatised rail system is in this country by choosing from one station or the other in Yeovil. From Pompey, travel to Pen Mill, (via Westbury) which is the town station in Yeovil and it will set you back £41.50 for a single. It takes 7 minutes shy of 3 hours. Travel to Yeovil junction (via Salisbury), a short bus ride from town and it only costs £28.80 and takes 2 hours and a quarter. You will still arrive at the shops before your chums, who foolishly went to Westbury and have an extra £10 or so to buy a nice pair of mittens, which is probably the only thing worth going there for, in the first place.
As an afterthought Scunthorpe, is the largest steel processing centre in the uk. Sometimes known as the "Industrial Garden Town".
Are the mittens attached to a cord that goes up your sleeves and round the back of your neck from mitt to mitt so you don't lose them?
We had a little 3 minute sprinkle of a shower yesterday morning and about a minute's worth this morning; the first rain we've seen since April. It was lovely while it lasted
[video=youtube;kd3Q6WqA3iM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd3Q6WqA3iM&feature=related[/video] As if to back up the sentiments of this song, Yeovil featured in "Crap Towns" as part of a regular feature in The Idler magazine in 1993.
Whilst working at Bletchley Park, Alan Turing stayed in lodgings in Shenley Brook End, a Parish that makes up part of Milton Keynes
Dan Wheldon the late, great, North American based Indy car driver was born in Milton Keynes District.
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Had to drive home from MK in the thickest fog I've ever come across - I was just able to make out the tail lights/fog lights of the lorry a couple of feet in front of me. All the way down the M1 and for many miles along the M25 the only safety was staying behind that lorry. It's a damn long drive at 10 mph.
On Google, click on "Images" and enter milton keynes beauty pageant as your search. One of the pictures on line 6 is quite disturbing
High Wycombe, known as Chepping (or Chipping) Wycombe until 1946 Wye the river, plus Combe, a wooded valley gives us the name. Which seems odd that it should be called High Wycombe as I don't know of many high valleys. Maybe we should refer to it as Low Wycombe. Two famous people who came from the town are Heston Blumenthal and Fern Britton. I fancy they were good friends for many years, but have drifted apart in recent times.
A ceremony, carried out in the town since 1678, involves the weighing of the mayor. At the beginning and end of the mayor's serving year, they are weighed in full view of the public to see whether or not they have gained weight at the taxpayers' expense. The custom, which has survived to the present day, employs the same weighing apparatus used since the 19th century. When the result is known, the Town Crier announces "And no more!" if the Mayor has not gained weight or "And some more!" if they have. The actual weight of the Mayor is not declared.
There is also an Aussie High Wycombe, being a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Strewth, I bet there is a couple there called Bruce & Sheila.
