Posted by willo'thewisp on May 27, 2008, 5:32 am, in reply to "Re: Betwixt and Between!"
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there are ne'er so blind as those who will not see!
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: I don't share your pessimism about all these
: changes.
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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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