“Lichfield’s beautiful: with her expanses of open land for an idle stroll, her just-the-right-size shopping area, her historic reference points (though I notice the cathedral claims it gets no state funding whilst asking everyone to fill in a gift-aid form: that’s the character of the CofE for you though), her hard working businesses bringing revenue and jobs to the city!

And character is the core of this, not least because the just-the-right-size shopping area is being stripped of shops!

I can see the skeleton of reason in the Councillor’s argument, but it’s muddied by the character of politics and, yes, jobsworth attitudes. Please put your toys of beaurocracy away, compliment yourselves on sacrificing your own reputations in order to gain a little publicity. Please realise that having your nose out of joint because of Deejay’s (alleged) procedural error isn’t sufficient reason to bring your institutional might against them.

And, Mr Councillor would please think of the people instead of the votes: just for once, eh? Find a way. We know you can. We’ll be interested to see if you do.

It seems self-evidence that the proprietors have striven to create appropriate signage. Go one, give them a break. Please.”

In summary of this week’s roast: think, Spock, fish, witch, pussy, ants, thug, deer, deer, tossers, shop, yuck!

Thanks for another great post: Don’t forget Mr B this afternoon….. tell us about it next week?