Week ending 6th August

Our Friday miscellany of the week's news and events
We’ll be dammed ... whilst the work that is going on all around Boston to protect the borough from flooding is very heartening it counts for nothing when main drains are allowed to get into a state like this.
The photo was taken beside John Adams Way, where a backlog of mud and debris just inches beneath the grating has become a fertile weed bed. What happens when it rains hard is anyone’s guess, but the example we’ve pictured above is not unique. Some maintenance is long overdue.
What the papers didn’t mean to say ... First, our thanks go to the Boston Target, for this interesting use of English in last week's paper.

Not what I say ... Moving on to the Boston Standard, we noted with interest the lead story on youngsters putting their lives at risk by jumping into Boston’s rivers. The photo of a young man preparing to leap from the town's Sluice Bridge was marred by placing the story over it - and therefore losing the point - was credited to “Granny Buttons.” A new member of staff, we mused?  No. “Granny Buttons” is the name of a narrowboat, and the title of a website dedicated to life on the waterways. And the piece from which the photo was lifted was actually sympathetic in tone to the youngsters - even though it acknowledged the risks they ran. How strange then to see it used in precisely the opposite context.
Accident or design? ... Elsewhere within the paper, we think we found a mischievous sense of humour at work. Whilst not everyone likes Anthony Worrall Thompson, his photo in our edition apparently depicts him in the style of the famous Tony Blair “Demon Eyes” poster.

Mishap or mischief? If the picture’s the same in your copy the answer is the latter.
Who’s who? ... Two photos of the Mayor in this week’s paper, both showing a slightly eccentric fashion sense in the choice of garb to accompany the chain of office, which loses its dignity with either tan or white jackets. However the white apparel did remind us of a famous TV character of days gone by. Can you spot the similarity?

That's it for this week. We said last week that because it was such a quiet time that we’d cease logging for a week or two. As it was, we only missed one day of the first week - but feel that next week really does look empty, so we’ll be back on Monday 16th. Unless, of course, something earth-shattering occurs. We’re still around, though, so please keep in touch.


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