A geography lesson, from our friends at Reuters:
Atlantic storm lashes southern England
That straightens out anyone thinking that the tempest which has brought the sea in rather closer — “…Areas particularly exposed are the Quomps, Mudeford Quay, Stanpit and Wick, at Christchurch…” — than it is usually . . . could be a Pacific storm.
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By the way, looking at those mentioned locales again, one has to say that this country really has some great place names, doesn’t it?
Incidentally, Mudeford just before the quay is now a very different place from the one I seem to recall Bill Bryson wasn’t at all impressed by in the 1970s. For one thing, the Volvo garage is long gone; and the term “run down” is no longer in the area’s mainstream vocabulary. The Stanpit-Mudeford area is, on the surface, almost stereotypically “English”, with the likes of its winding (almost too) narrow coast road, the Admiral Nelson (which now does very English pub . . . Thai food!), a fish and chip shop that when open always seems to have “a queue” outside, and a postcard-ish cricket ground.
Live in north London again? Under Mayor Ken? We’d have to be insane.
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UPDATE: But, to be fair, what the heck is also going on in New York state? (Where the wife and I plan to live eventually!)
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer has apologised amid allegations of involvement in a prostitution ring…
As my mother just told me, “I feel like I’m in Bizarro land. Get back here: you could be governor!“.
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