Making it up

8 Comments

1. Gill
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 12:10 | Permalink

   Blimey, don’t they have to say: THIS IS A FLOOD PLAIN nowadays if it is?
   I know that area well, it does flood badly. That football pitch around the corner spends nearly half the year submerged doesn’t it?

2. Bob
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 13:00 | Permalink

   At least you have some ready-made ideas for the name for the house:
   Mesopotamia
   Dun Insurin’ - you won’t be able to get any on the new place
   Titanic

3. Tim
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 13:55 | Permalink

   Wonder if they would grant planning consent to convert the garage to a boathouse.

4. Chris
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 17:03 | Permalink

   It’s the idyllic and Rochdale (331st out of 409 best places to live as a family) in the same sentence that is confusing me.

5. Tim
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 18:16 | Permalink

   Well, anywhere is better than Reading.

6. Alison
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 20:38 | Permalink

   We’re still laughing at that one Tim

7. Tim
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 21:09 | Permalink

   You live in Reading, what have you got to laugh about.

   (TBH, I struggle to see that there is that much wrong with Reading - how does it manage to come so low?)

8. Alison
   Posted Fri Apr 20 2007 at 22:57 | Permalink

   Well, I think the clue is in the RD’s list of criteria that they got people to rate http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/best-places-to-bring-up-a-family-i-235.html

   I would have put “Things to actually *DO*” on my list
   And “Good public transport”, boringly and unamusingly.