DOES THIS FAIR CITY, THIS GLISTENING JEWEL IN A SEA OF MUD, THIS TEMPLATE FOR INTERNATIONAL TOLERANCE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY have much of an online presence? Oh, my golly gosh, yes indeed it do. We should really start at the bottom here, with the proud website of Wisbech Town Council.
LOOKING FOR ALL THE WORLD IF IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY A FAILED GCSE STUDENT, this site links you, at the click of a mouse to the heady world of the power brokers who shape your world - if you are are fortunate enough to live under the PE13 postcode. You will be transported, in an instant to the movers and shakers who, pausing only to brush the toast crumbs from their cardigans, meet in the highly charged atmosphere of the council chamber, and totally fail to agree on anything at all. If this fails to entrance you, you could visit the wonderful world of Twitter, where there is much more entertainment to be had.
THE VERY FIRST PERSON YOU MUST FOLLOW is the wonderful and whacky campaigning editor of the Wisbech Standard - the only local newspaper worth reading, despite the fact that JE lives in his ancestral home in Suffolk, Elworthy Towers, and conducts most of his business from East Anglia's answer to Wapping - March High Street. seriously, he is a bloody good journalist, and is highly entertaining when he gets his teeth into the overfed flanks of local politicians.
Scoring 9 out of 10 on the 'I'm On Your Side And I Feel Your Pain' chart, is local Tory councillor Steve Tierney. Of all of the local politicos, he is the only one worth listening to, and despite his ill-concealed loved affair with the dafter aspects of Conservativism, he is someone who is worth following. AND he runs the best cafe in Cambridgeshire. (Don't get me started on his Coffee and Walnut Cake)
FOR BROADER AND MORE ROBUST BRUSH-STROKES you need to to visit the shark-infested waters of Facebook. There is an excellent page called 'Wisbech...Oh Dear'. It is best experienced rather than described, but will feature, on more or less a regular basis, ill-informed rants, subtle social judgments, diatribes which bear witness to the sad level of state education in Wisbech over the last 20 years, and sublimely funny social comment.
Are you related to Cambridge Scraper? You're both clearly in love with Johnny “two pencils” Elworthy.
ReplyDeleteNot so keen on the Tory, myself, walnut cake or no walnut cake, what with being disabled and all that, but a bloody good effort all round - let down only by the lack of Boobies.
Could we have a post on the Tribal War with March? Or is that as touchy a subject as the Armenian Genocide to a Turk?
And it customary to rely, even if you hate the commentator, especially if you've only one comment and the whole blog. It's the way to build Community ;) Yea? It's like, you don't like the guy because he's foreign, but put-up with him because he does the gutters for £20, and then you meet his three year old daughter, and student-nurse wife, and she tells you how her grandmother was shot by Stalin, and how happy she is that Estonia is now part of the EU and she could leave... (Most of this commen
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