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December 14th, 2005

My guide to the UK

I have been working very hard today as I have various deadlines and projects to be working on.

I did however have time to take a little break and take part in my latest online distraction, building pages in Squidoo. I mentioned this the other day you may remember. At the moment the site is in its very early days, so there is a chance to add pages on subjects that no-one else has written on yet.

I clicked some buttons and managed to claim the truly great and marvellous Squidoo address www.squidoo.com/uk. This is going to be my exhaustive guide to the UK. At the moment it isn’t that good as it only lists six towns, the first six to come into my head in fact. It also lists some books, but I didn’t choose them, although I will be.

What do you think should be included in any authoritative guide to the UK? Possibilities might include the top benches overlooking the sea, good places to drink tea or sundry facts about red phoneboxes. But I’m sure there must be something more interesting. Please do make suggestions in the comments.

As an unrelated aside I was quite pleased with today’s Advent Calendar cartoon. Hope you are enjoying them.

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  1. Neil says:

    The 10 best laybys. The best fish and chips (with price guide). The bookshops with the most haphazard shelving. Favourite railway halts.

    December 15th, 2005 at 8:42 am
  2. Dave says:

    Neil – I have added your suggestions to the page to give readers a hint of the sort of things that will be coming soon. Already you can sense it is going to be a top resource, it has got that look about it.

    More suggestions are welcome though of course.

    Anyone else made a Squidoo page?

    December 15th, 2005 at 10:07 am
  3. Simo says:

    I haven’t made one, I did have a quick glance at your first one, if you want to do the phone box one then I can tell you all kinds of stuff, I am a big fan and slowly working on ‘the red box project’ aiming to get photos and info on red phone boxes around the country plus ones now with alternates uses, this will be hosted at http://www.theredtelephonebox.co.uk which I am proud to ay has been a domain of mine for several years now! Although at the moment it just points to another out of date site that I was working on a while back.

    December 15th, 2005 at 10:13 am
  4. Sarah H says:

    Have you also been busy doing a cartoon for Christian Aid mpower which is in youthwork magazine? It loks very like one of yours but not quite (no DaveW on it!) Is it you or some flattering impersonator?

    December 15th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
  5. Dave says:

    Sarah – not as far as I am aware. Though I am aware that sometimes things happen that I am not aware of.

    December 15th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
  6. Moog says:

    Perhaps you could mention how many A roads lead out of each town, i don’t think anyone has done that before, and it would be interesting to see if there’s a correlation between that and how interesting the town is.

    December 15th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
  7. Jay Dubs says:

    Any chance you could add a list of the UK’s nicest tasting swimming pools?

    December 15th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
  8. Dave says:

    Moog – that is a good one. Though places that built a lot of roads leading out presumably akso built a lot of roads going in. Unless they are one way streets. Whether they were one way streets going in or out would say a lot.

    Jay Dubs – welcome. I’m a bit wary of encouraging people to taste swimming pools. The drop in water level might be small, but someone diving in needs all the water they can get to stop them hitting the bottom. But yes, I’ll add it anyway.

    December 15th, 2005 at 4:37 pm
  9. Sarah H says:

    Must be a Dave Walker impersonator!

    A roads leading out and only out… they definitely seem to have those coming out of Swindon on the M4. You only ever see people coming ONTO the motorway never going INTO Swindon… spooky!

    December 15th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
  10. blonde says:

    the best bench for looking at the sea is at the top of Cwmdonkin park behind my hill in the uplands. you can all the way round from port talbot to the mumbles lighthouse, and devon on a good day (*waves to neil*).

    good places to drink tea include the chaplaincy, verdi’s, cafe cesso, the new upstairs tea rooms in waterstone’s, and my house.

    I’m assuming Swampea was one of your six?!? if not why not, and you’ve lots of contacts here…

    December 15th, 2005 at 9:27 pm