Recently in England Category

The BBC has written an article explaining a flash mob. They must be about 2 weeks behind in the blogging world news! Interestingly enough on Monday night the news team on Radio2 were discussing blogs now that "the worlds biggest isp", AOL, were shortly about to release their blogging tool. The newscasters had no idea what a blog was and it was quite funny listening to them trying to explain it to each other. I was tempted to ring in and explain it to them but at the time I was driving around Nottingham in circles due to major trafficjams.

From an email I received today - "At short notice we need a catering unit to provide more choice of hot food at Cross Rhythms Festival this weekend. We have unfortunately been let down by several others. We are looking for a caterer who can serve something like noodles or pizza or fish and chips or mexican.
If you can help or know someone to contact on our behalf we would really appreciate it.
All other preparations are coming on well and pre-bookings are nearly the highest we've had. Our need of a big top was met last week, and we are excited for a great weekend. Please email jonathan.bellamy@crossrhythms.co.uk or phone 08700 118 008."

The quality of England's beaches has had a couple of conflicting news reports on the BBC's front page this morning. The first is an article about how the number of beaches that have won the coveted blue flag award for cleanliness has doubled. But on the same front page they also run an article about how the beaches may not be as clean as we think with cautionary tales about surfers suffering various illness's due to the sewage pumped into the sea. I can well agree with them as I can remember going to our local "beach" which had an outfall that you could walk to the end of and I remember being amazed at seeing what was being pumped out - including seeing pieces of toilet roll (and other stuff I won't mention) swirling out into the water.....Certainly makes me think twice about swimming in the sea - and definately not at this particular beach!