My OperaNantwich - schmantwich
Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:08:58 PM
At the western end of the borough of Crewe and Nantwich is Nantwich, the pretty olde worlde bit. As opposed to the vaguely bleak used-to-be-industrial bit that Cheshire tries to forget, which is Crewe.
This afternoon I made the big mistake of going there (Nantwich), inspired by a conversation with my boss (hi, Annette) to visit a pretty good record shop with a big second hand section.
Shock number one: half the main car park has been closed and is being built on. Luckily I managed to get a space, but heaven help you if you go when it's busy.
Shock number two: the car park charges have been hiked. This probably covers Crewe too, and it's daylight robbery (especially as it used to be free not that long ago). 90p for 2 hours. So I put in a pound, get the ticket and then find that the machine doesn't give change. Funny that they used to when it was cheaper. And of course they'll be raking it in because who carts around that much change these days? You'd think if they were changing the machines they'd get some which take plastic, but that's obviously too much like being convenient...
I suspect that some hair-shirt eco-fascists in the administration think that removing parking space and upping the charges for what's left will somehow encourage us to use the nearly-non-existent and inconvenient buses and trains to visit the place. Whereas in practice I just think I'll avoid the place in future. Especially as...
Shock number three: the record shop is no more, replaced by some outfit that seem to make pseudo-Victorian dolls' houses. FFS. Just about sums the place up. You're guaranteed to overdose on twee if you stay too long.
Take my advice: avoid the place!
This afternoon I made the big mistake of going there (Nantwich), inspired by a conversation with my boss (hi, Annette) to visit a pretty good record shop with a big second hand section.
Shock number one: half the main car park has been closed and is being built on. Luckily I managed to get a space, but heaven help you if you go when it's busy.
Shock number two: the car park charges have been hiked. This probably covers Crewe too, and it's daylight robbery (especially as it used to be free not that long ago). 90p for 2 hours. So I put in a pound, get the ticket and then find that the machine doesn't give change. Funny that they used to when it was cheaper. And of course they'll be raking it in because who carts around that much change these days? You'd think if they were changing the machines they'd get some which take plastic, but that's obviously too much like being convenient...
I suspect that some hair-shirt eco-fascists in the administration think that removing parking space and upping the charges for what's left will somehow encourage us to use the nearly-non-existent and inconvenient buses and trains to visit the place. Whereas in practice I just think I'll avoid the place in future. Especially as...
Shock number three: the record shop is no more, replaced by some outfit that seem to make pseudo-Victorian dolls' houses. FFS. Just about sums the place up. You're guaranteed to overdose on twee if you stay too long.
Take my advice: avoid the place!
