The Official Nonsense Thread

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Ah, here is Minty, my little lavender shortbread (sorry - it's because Bake Off is back on telly and I can't stop thinking about new recipes). Interesting times indeed. I am nervous for Scotland and expect to remain so, no matter what the outcome of the vote.

Here are some pictures from Stratford. This is the view from my favourite bench, with the river side of the RSC in view and lots of water-birdies going by. They are ridiculously well-fed ducks with the constant arrival of groups of kiddies with their grannies and grandads to feed them loaves. I started to wonder whether anyone in the town actually ate any bread themselves, since so much of it seemed to end up in the river.






Last time I visited Stratford... ahem, 21 years ago (what?!).... I went in one of those little rowing boats and fell out, so I can tell you from personal experience that the river is not very deep.

A weird feature of the town is that a lot of the lampposts are sponsored by other towns or indeed countries. I am not sure why. Some of them are just normal lampposts. Here is Glasgow's representative, as an example:




Others are more outlandish in design. The most elaborate one I spotted was from Israel, with an assortment of characters sitting on it. However it was the nearest one to the theatre, so that would explain the embellishments.




So there we go.