Play on ... lots of whooping about a Party in the Park type revival in the news this week. But the bottom line is that it turns out to be nothing more than a paid for concert limited to a thousand seats. Interestingly, there's also mention of "refreshments" aka a beer tent. So once again, will the council will be putting on its other face and lifting the ban on drinking in Central Park ...? We expect so.
Booze hounds hounded ... Meanwhile, another band of lemon-sucking citizens want to extend the current no-sip areas to embrace the town as a whole. We all know of Boston's permanent place in the history of Puritanism, but effectively to introduce prohibition to the town seems to be going a bit too far - especially at this idea is the fancy of no more than a handful of people. A lot more could be achieved with a selective education programme aimed at a core group of transgressors, rather than using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Bright idea ... Congratulations to the powers that be at Boston Stump for an ingenious plan to keep the church illuminated by switching the light on for special events such as a birthday or anniversary. At just £25, it's an affordable and unusual gift. And if it keeps the church lit after dark, then it will be doing something that the Borough Council refused to do for a paltry £4,000 a year.
Whack-O! ... Mayor elect Peter Jordan's profile recalled his schooldays at Tower Road primary, whose headmaster "Boss" Comer is memorialised in the naming of Boston's Comer Close. A contemporary of Councillor Jordan's, who, being a few years older, recalls giving him the odd cuff around the ear, remembers the boss with something less than affection. In those straitened times if your parents wanted you to go to Grammar School, they had to buy exercise books and ask the teachers to set homework - as a sort of entry certificate. One child who was assumed to have been born out of wedlock because his surname differed from that of his mother, was always called by the name that he didn't go under in what today would be seen as a particularly malicious abuse of office - and our correspondent says that the "Boss" seemed to enjoy picking on lads who were less than bright, and was seldom less than severe with the beatings he administered.
Falling Standard ... some odd stuff in our local papers this week Turn to page seven for your chance to win one of 10,000 tickets to Grand Designs and you'll find a page of text blown up so large from a tiny original that it's unreadable. Never mind, the tireless newshounds tell us all there is to tell when "The Standard finds out more information..." on Mayor elect Peter Jordan. Pity that it just the handout provided by the Borough Council, rather than a real interview with someone who's done so much to promote the town. Never mind, half the paper seems written by either the council or other branches of the great and the good. One final point. At a time when real comment is urgently needed on life in Boston, how come whenever the Standard posts a story under the "Comment" block, it's always a piece by a financial adviser?
Gobsmacked ... Letter writer Gary Skipworth of Fishtoft lavishes praise on the Boston Bypass Independents. He tells the Boston Target that he, like many others, was delighted at their election victory and thinks that they're doing a good job. Just as we were wondering what he was smoking, and where we could buy some, he was honest enough to admit that "My very small knowledge of local politics comes only from the excellent weekly reports in your newspaper." 'Nuff said!
Calling time ... It's now week three since the Sheridan-Shinn challenge to the writers of Boston Eye to identify themselves, or he would. Time to deliver, Mike, or it this just another Lib Dem broken promise?
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