Impact underestimation statement

[hirez]

It turns out that my cube at ex-work is now a shrine to odd behaviour and the Church of the Subgenius. Given the general level of oddness there, I consider that a great honour.

The Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford, appears to have been perfectly preserved since the mid fifties. I expect doubtful plumbing and cold collation on the menu.

Although it did have a room labelled 'cyber space'. In slanted black-on-gold sticky letters, yet. I trust there is a shop where one may find the roundy-roundy thing¹ with the individual letters wobbling on their hooks as you search for the big sticker that depicts a cad in a sharp suit smoking negligently.

Nevertheless, I intend to stay there at some point in the future. The staff are jolly good sorts who can spot a thirsty traveller at some distance: "I've a barrel of Wye Valley in the corner. By the way you were looking at the beer-pumps, I think you might prefer it..."


[1] Pater calls any mechanical device that rotates, which doesn't already have an obvious name (threshing drum, internal combustion engine, turbocharger) a 'hurdy-gurdy'.

Comments

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

I am absurdly fond of the Green Dragon. As much as Hereford is full of coffin-dodgers and my grandmother-in-law, I do like visiting Cider Country because of the way it seems to have been nicely preserved, without fossilising. It also has the best cheese shop outside of Neal's Yard.

Also, Wye Valley beers are lovely.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I always wondered, wtf is cold collation?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Sounds like the sort of place one might think to visit with a set of like-minded chums...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Mentions Milligan, which is where I first heard the phrase:
http://caseyleaver.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/the-dreaded-cold-collation/

Arse-clenchingly expensive version:
http://www.duncombepark.com/cold_collation_1.shtml

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

...and with one phrase I am transported to a hardware store in Winchcombe, with the whiff of parafin in the air and a wearly look on the face (like a slapped arse) of the 'assistant'.

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

...who for some utterly unknown reason is American, or Canadian, or suchlike.

Americans moving to the Cotswolds? Fine, perfectly reasonable behaviour.

Americans moving to the Cotswolds to run a very small ironmongery, WHY?

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Because the US doesn't have them anymore? Just about anywhere like that in the US has disappeared since the US versions of B&Q and Homebase (plus Walmart) have establised themselves.
*shrug* Why not ask them next time you stop in?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

They submitted a manuscript that they think is so bad that moving to Lubbock isn't enough: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004307.html