Posted by willo'thewisp on May 27, 2008, 1:27 am, in reply to "Re: Betwixt and Between!"
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I have just finished reading Paul Theroux's "Kingdom by the Sea" an account of his walking and train tour of the entire British coast in 1982. What he describes is dismal and sombre and already demonstrates a severe decline in the British coast both ecological and population wise. If the one thing that England always had as a pressure release was a day or week at the seaside resort. No more; no more - boarding houses are continually empty and the good days have gone. I think the only village or small town that impressed him at all on his trip was Tenby. It appears to me that England is decaying from the coast inwards rather than the other way around. It is a shrinking island in so so many ways, from culture to terrain!
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: It seems you've heard about recent events in
: Weaverham. Don't get the wrong idea, it's
: not typical.
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: What's the best thing to say about it all?
: Most people will go about their business in
: the same good-natured way they always have.
: Other things that're growing here are
: symptoms of a far wider sickness than our
: village's.
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: Attitudes are changing -- not always for the
: worse. But old wisdom is often cast aside
: for instant pleasure. Hasn't it always been
: so? Not like this.
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