Trying to think up nonsense to post on this blog is not as easy as you would think, and for a while I have been trying to think up threads that could be done by other members of the Squad. On Monday I had an idea. I had been fore warned the prior week, that a documentary series, charting an experiment in Castleford, was on Monday night on Channel 4. The series is asking weather a struggling ex-mining town, can be regenerated through a series of architectural set pieces in the town centre. The first up was a bridge across the river Aire. The programme was the usual, will they won't they, overcoming a series of problems that threaten it's existence to final triumph. Now it just so happens that we have a member who resides in this borough, so with no little haste well known fadge eater Sprocket was sent to see what the hub bub was all about. Of course he reported it was busy, all the folk who had seen it on the telly decided to show up and watch all the sewage from the upstream Bradford and Leeds flow beneath their feet. Sprocket said it was alright, and sent the following photos;
Notice on the first photo how he is preparing to sneak up on some old bird, and how snug that t-shirt is. The water is a lovely shade of shite as well. Can you see the rusting old boat in the picture fourth form top? Saying that though, the bridge does look pretty groovy. Little did Sprocket realise though that this would be his first mission, and I will be expecting a Yorkshire landmark every week, wether it be a brand spanking new bridge, or some greasy spoon that he likes.
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