Archeolocal round-up with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

If you're the offspring of a Goon Show enthusiast like me, the name 'spon' will resonate strangely. (You'll have to your own Seagoon routines, I'm feeling a bit dim today.[1]) Grandfather had a cow named Spon, and another called Platerack, but that's a different story.

Thus I was more pleased than most to discover Spon End and the associated website.

It appears the residents have never had to deal with the Spon Plague though.

[1] Probably for the best, since it would be about as bad as unfunny twits emitting lines from Python/H2G2/R&M/Fast Show/The entirely unfunny thing with the chins/Whatever the kids are 'down with' this week.[2]

[2] How long will we have to wait for the first painfully bad telly-thing featuring (whatever)-macros?

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Weirdly I learned to love the Goon show while picking tomatoes as a summer job. My mate Simon's dad was a methodist minister who had a pretty much complete collection recorded from the radio (less Elligton and Geldray's music which he hated). We played them continually for two or three summers.

The White Box of Great Bardfield (or wherever) remains a favourite -- I guess because it was very hot and the idea of people shipping boxes of snow about was great.

Probably for the best, since it would be about as bad as unfunny twits emitting lines from Python/H2G2/R&M/Fast Show/The entirely unfunny thing with the chins/Whatever the kids are 'down with' this week

Um... yes, we did used to do that... mainly with "he's fallen in the water" or "You can't get the wood you know." Funnily enough, at recordings of the Now Show you still hear the occasional bad little Jim impression.

[steer.livejournal.com]

And, incidentally, I did wonder if that was why you had a photo with SPON prominently on it the other day.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Exactly so.

[operon.livejournal.com]

How long will we have to wait for the first painfully bad telly-thing featuring (whatever)-macros?

Until that arrives, try this (http://lol.ianloic.com/lj/hirez). Also works with RSS feeds and all sorts of other things.

"The pump don't work 'cos the vandals took the handle" and "IM IN UR WEAKEND" are particularly good...

Andrew.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Grandfather had a cow [...] called Platerack

I think you'll find that was actually a reindeer, not a cow.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Genius!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

I believe it was a sickly (not mentioning the T-word here) animal and had prominent ribs, so...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

The evils of bushy spon.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I would post about that, but it would break the current set of pictures.

Damn!

[quercus.livejournal.com]

The far from surprising fact is that it only works with your journal...

...and jwz

("I love you cold unfeeling robot baby" is particularly apposite)

Coventry craziness

[grega.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it will amuse that not only is Spon End at the end of Spon Street, but it's also next to The Butts.

Re: Coventry craziness

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that handy for the Chaos Engine birthday disco the other year?

You know, what with that and the pottering round the Guildhall, a chap might get the (most pleasing) impression that there's some real Coventry left underneath the concrete and flyovers.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

We had temporary custody of a kitten named Greepto, which we renamed Grytpype-Thynne for the duration.
Bluebottle is my favourite, though.
-Barbara

Re: Coventry craziness

[grega.livejournal.com]

Yes, my 40th b-day bash was very close to The Butts and not far from Spon End.

Spon End still has some olde houses on it and the part of Spon Street next to city centre has all lots of olde houses now shops, pubs and the like. Most were moved there as they would have looked out of place stood in the middle of a concrete shopping centre or red brick housing. Not far from the guildhall and bombed out cathedral there's the ruins of the cathedral that King Henry had raised to the ground. There are other gems around dotted around the monstrous city centre.