We went to Plymouth today and, if you remember, Plymouth is a bit of a hole. It is redeemed by the most amazing views from the Plymouth Hoe of Plymouth Sound. The Plymouth Hoe is the site where Sir Francis Drake famously took on the Spanish Armada after, in a fit of epic coolness, finishing his game of lawn bowls. When I was 19 and returned to England the very first time I visited Plymouth the Hoe and the Sound literally took my breath away with its beauty. It was an expanse of loveliness, ocean as far as you could see while you are surrounded by fields of green, luscious grass. It truly was beautiful.
I have a fondness for the Hoe as a result, even while Plymouth remained a dump. And then we went there today and this travesty greeted me.
An eye! A fricking eye!! On the place Sir Francis Drake went bowling and right next to the Drake statue. It’s appalling. Evidently everywhere is getting an eye now. I’m not actually sure what you would see at the top of it. The sea, on one side, which will look the same from the ground, just higher. Or rubbish Plymouth on the other.
I refused to go on it as part of my political protest. I’m hopeful that my lack of funds will inspire it to go bankrupt and they can get rid of it.
People were lining up to go on it. I weep for Britain.
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Oh Nigel, I weep with you.Not because I know this place, but for the huge mistakes that councils make in a bid to make cash.In the future places that are left unsullied will be where we will go and people will marvel at that area’s “naturalness” and it will cost us a fortune to go there and see it !
These ugly blights on the landscape are called “progress” and we are now officially “old fogies” for not wanting these area spoilt with eyes, rides or any other technology that suggests that we are here. Yep Plymouth is officially a Ho !!!!