The first question asks how many times in the last year have we been involved in, or been to visit number of activities in Boston including opera - where the answer is quite easy.
The same question is then asked for events outside Boston.
Among the options offered for reasons why we might not have attended events, the list includes “lack of activities/events/venues,” and “poor quality activities/events/venues” - both of which we suspect will be the most commonly ticked boxes.
We are finally asked to check a list of “aspects” in order of importance when thinking about heritage and arts. before moving on to the inevitable intrusive and irrelevant questions about age,disability, ethnicity, sexuality - all of those things that make our views on culture so important.
The most obvious question about this survey is what on earth use it will be if anyone takes the trouble to answer it?
Apparently, Boston has a cultural services manager - job which must be the nearest thing on the council to a dress rehearsal for retirement, as Boston has very little to write home about on the culture front.
At a stretch there’s the Stump, but in our book it counts as a monument rather than “culture.” There’s the Guildhall, restored to appear as if it was completed a few weeks rather than a few centuries ago, and turned into a noisy medieval theme park - a son et son where speakers blare out at you as you enter every room.
We poked around on the borough’s website for a few minutes imagining ourselves to be planning a visit to the visit to the town, and what we found was not impressive.
We thought the idea of looking at a pocket guide was a good idea, but when we clicked on the link, we were told: “ You are not authorised to view this resource. You need to login. “
August is the big Bank Holiday Month, so we headed for the Borough website’s what’s on guide. Here’s what we found.
Not even a mention of the much-lauded phoney festival that the fakes on the BBI trumpeted as such a big deal for the town.
Ah well, there’s always the famous “Boston Experience” to turn to in an hour of need, and here’s what we found when we clicked the link from the home page.
So, if you fancy a good day out in Boston, why not got to .... Alford, or Spilsby.
Which reminds us ... the link to the website celebrating one of the borough’s showcase events ... er, the Boston Showcase ... is still broken. Never mind, we only reported it last Friday.
So far, the only place where we have found it to have got an online a mention is on - South Holland District Council’s website.
In fairness, it also appears on the borough’s own site ... but with the usual result.
What on earth is the point of a survey of Boston’s “culture” when this incompetent, hopeless, useless council can’t even get its act together and provide local information on its website.
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