granted, coventry is probably the city i hate the most in all of england (though my boyfriend is half-coventrerian). it definitely beats redditch but then i wouldn't say its better than nottingham. ok, its nicer than... warwick.
Sprouts and lovely and must be eaten. With roast potatoes and gravy.
I don't remember the birdy sculpture... I went on a school trip to the cathedral in Year 6 (the delights of Catholic schooling), and preferred the ruins of the bombed cathedral to the 60s version. Though I was quite impressed by a bust of Jesus in it that was made from the melted down metal from car wrecks. Unless I imagined that one....
I may have imagined the birdy scultpure; I saw it somewhere on a school trip when my age was merely in single figures all those years ago, and my memory tells me it was Coventry Cathedral. That's all I remember of it, though...
And sprouts ARE evil; they are one of the things Hitler left in his wake.
Well, it definitely has a *lot* of fabgroovy modern art, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a sculpture of birds involved there somewhere.
Confused memory syndrome is irritating :-)
I've never yet heard tell of sprouts killing a single person, let alone several million! They are like cabbages, only smaller and thus cuter. Oh sprouty sprouts. How I love thee.
And the Hitler thing comes from proper historical facts. Before the war, Sprouts were only ever used as fodder for cattle and the like. Then, during the war when proper food was scarce, people were driven to eat things they would not have previously eaten, such as sprouts, and many developed a taste for them and carried on eating them... Or at least that's the tale I was told...
Even Cirencester is better than Coventry...
Reply
Reply
Coventry has um um um naked ladies riding horses. Or did, once, a long time ago. That's about the only thing in its favour I can think of.
Reply
Coventry was bombed to bits during the second world war. They shouldn't have rebuilt it.
Having said that, the re-built Cathedral is quite nice; there is quite a spectacular scuplture of a flock or birds, IIRC.
Reply
I don't remember the birdy sculpture... I went on a school trip to the cathedral in Year 6 (the delights of Catholic schooling), and preferred the ruins of the bombed cathedral to the 60s version. Though I was quite impressed by a bust of Jesus in it that was made from the melted down metal from car wrecks. Unless I imagined that one....
Reply
And sprouts ARE evil; they are one of the things Hitler left in his wake.
Reply
Confused memory syndrome is irritating :-)
I've never yet heard tell of sprouts killing a single person, let alone several million! They are like cabbages, only smaller and thus cuter. Oh sprouty sprouts. How I love thee.
Reply
And the Hitler thing comes from proper historical facts. Before the war, Sprouts were only ever used as fodder for cattle and the like. Then, during the war when proper food was scarce, people were driven to eat things they would not have previously eaten, such as sprouts, and many developed a taste for them and carried on eating them... Or at least that's the tale I was told...
Reply
And anyway, obviously you don't like sprouts if you're a wombat. You probably live on grass and leaves and things. No taste!
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment