Week ending 30th October

Our Friday miscellany of the week's news and events
Don't take it so seriously ... We weren't being too critical when we pointed out the lack of activity on the Boston Conservative Business Network website, and we just thought it amusing that that site above all other couldn't spell our MPs surname correctly. Now we find the site has vanished from the world wide web. That's what we call a sulk.
Last with the news ... What do they do all day at the Boston Standard? After all the rumpus over council leader Richard Austin's decision to start a blog, and its rapid demise pending the addressing of concerns by the opposition, we find a small story tucked away on page eleven headed "He's blogging." Not only is he not, but the reason why is quite a story in its own right. But not in the Standard.
Headline of the week award ... Also goes to the Standard for "Wildlife stroll through cemetery." We're pleased to hear that the voles et al treat the place with respect and don't break into a run!
Even handed ... But let's not forget the Target. After all these years you would think they had an adequate picture library of traffic jams in Boston. Apparently not. Otherwise why would the photo illustrating a letter from Mike Borrill of the Boston and District Bypass Pressure Group be packed with red London buses?
What's it mean? ... Can someone tell us what it means to call in an administrator - as Fogarty's appears to have done, according to an announcement in the local press. It sounds ominous.
Why Manny? ... We asked last week why the Borough Council was devoting webspace to the winning entry in a Weetabix haystack competition. The council tells us: "The council was asked to give its support by the creators of the sculpture. It was considered to be a good opportunity to promote the area, given that the sculpture won the national prize; and the council has the power to promote the area's 'well-being'." We get it - "Come to Boston and see a haystack shaped like a mammoth. That'll set the local tills jingling. Incidentally, can anyone tell us when was the last time the council used this amazing power to promote the local well-being.
That's better ... We thought that a much better promo for the town appeared in the Daily Telegraph earlier in the week. After the paper ran a piece lamenting the poor state of Britain's war memorials, a Boston reader wrote in praise of the "A Town Remembers" series of local histories which describes the lives of everyone named on the town's memorial.
Back in a week ... We're taking a well earned rest after more than a year's continuious blogging. See you again on Monday 9th November ... unless there's something earth-shattering to report. Please keep your e-mails coming in the meantime.

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