Showing posts with label Leek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leek. Show all posts

Monday, 14 October 2013

Lord Byron's mate



Woman appears at the till with a” buy one get one free” sticker stuck to her back. Since when have we been involved in Slavery? As there are no cotton field or sugar plantations in ST13 I don’t know what we will do with them

Man with beard, very big bushy beard buys 5 loaves. “Where are the fish”. He does not pick up on it and says he buys fish on Fridays.

Man still mourning the Leek roadabout and cursing the Council. Apparently he played a lament on the bag pipes while standing on the roundabout. Told him he ought to stand for Election if he feels so strongly about it. There are not enough characters in Leek

Man buys Plastic skull made out like a cup. Not as good as Lord Byron using his mate’s skull as a drinking vessel. Now that is gothic. Mind you Byron was from Nottinghamshire and was mad, bad and dangerous to know, so they say. That’s Nottinghamshire people for you although not as strange as people from Lincolnshire.

Man says he will do his own packing. He enjoys his packing and derives pleasure from it. It takes all sorts I suppose. I ask him does he go down to the laundrette and get satisfaction from watching the washing go around.

Person buys a lot of Nut and Berries either he is a hunter gatherer or he is making a lot of cakes.


Thursday, 23 May 2013

Number of the beast



Big funeral in Leek today. Apparently the manager of a local football club. The side streets were packed around the Church. A shopper speculated that it was the biggest funeral in Leek with the possible exception of Steve Povey's a couple of years ago. I remember the coffin on the back of a horse and cart with a scout band playing the European theme " Ode to Joy". Ironic considering Steve was a UKIP member.

Told a bloke about the research I did in the William Salt Library on the emigrant to the States Isaac ball and the Oregon Trail. I have a notion of writing a quartet of accounts of emigrants in the 19th century from the Staffordshire Moorlands. I have Isaac bound for the States. I found a bloke transported to NSW in 1839 for stealing bacon from Upper Tean, two brothers who fought in the Second Sikh Wars 1848-9 and a judge born in Leek who was involved in the Ballarat Gold Fields. Should be interesting.

Man has a big rant about paying for plastic bags, we don't do it and I suspect he us getting us confused with Wales about 40 miles away.

Very wizened man possibly from the hills gets a bill for 6.66. I smell sulphur. I have always suspected the beast lives in Onecote