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Link VideoDundee
Dundee Tourist Office,
Dear Sir,
I visited your city for the first time in many years on Saturday and was initially impressed at the extensive environmental cosmetic changes that have been undertaken, upon the riverside, since my last visit. The good impressions however did not last too long. This was a day trip to enjoy the many acts scheduled to appear at the Blues Bonanza 11+, three day event.
Unfortunately the experience of the fine music was considerably marred by the seemingly ‘head in the sand’ intransigence of many of your bars and restaurants and their staff. I lost count, but it was in double figures, of the number of chefs who had ‘just finished’ work. Turkish, Italian, Scots this lethargy knows no international boundary.
I should point out, at this point, that this quest was not at midnight or after closing time. No, this was at the ungodly hour of two o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. Do Dundee businesses do so well that they can turn away so many potential customers?
All this while the City of Discovery is festooned with posters boasting 135 acts in 32 venues.
All in all, I had a good day in Dundee despite all the above, however it will be long, long time before I shall be tempted to return
Regards
Rupert Cocking
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Desert Island Discs
Chums,When I have a rare spare moment, one of my favourite websites to mull and ponder over is Desert Island Discs and exactly what celebrities would take along with them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml
Imagine having the discipline to boil your favourites down to a ‘top eight’!
I’d have trouble trimming mine back to a top eighty!!! Don’t think I could last too long with those Desert Island Dicks, Jeremy Clarkson or even worse Gordon Ramsay. Check those choices out. How can a man with a supposedly sophisticated palette have such shockingly banal taste in music? There’s not one of the foul-mouthed ex-Range’ tunes that would ever trouble the Davidson Dansette. While not quite reaching the depths of Worrell-Thompson, Harriott or Nairn, Ramsay has now suddenly dropped below Oliver, Stein and Rhodes in my Top Ten TV Chefs (said list being a well thumbed and constantly amended annex of The Big Row Book)
Have to dash now, a speed-boating Satan has appeared back on the horizon and I am once again reminded to stand, on my hands, elbow deep in shite. ‘Tea Break’s over, lads!’
Yours, permanently trapped in that purgatory of punchlines from old jokes,
Roy Plomley
p.s Of course it’s taken for granted, anyone wishing to share their fantasy DIDs (snigger) with me, are more than welcome.
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