100,000 views for Langport Blog
The view counter for Carry On Langport is due to tick over to 100,000 this week. The old Commodore 64 home computer I use to write it is already overheating as the milestone approaches. There's already been a power surge here at home this morning. It's started a fire at Bibic and chaos here on Cheapside. Nobody's hurt but the shock wave seems to have done something to the paintwork around Boilertec's windows.
The blog, which when you do a Google search is described as "The news that the Western Gazette forgot to mention", is now around 14 months old.
Fans and supporters include Huish Vicar Jess Pitman, a handful of pub landlords, staff at the Langport Arms Motel, stores up and down North Street, Cheapside and Bow Street, several current and former Langport Town Councillors and last but not least....Dame Shirley Nicholas. The leader of Huish Episcopi Parish Council, speaking from KGB headquarters in St Mary's Park, says she logs on every morning with a glass of gin before breakfast. Long may she reign.
Above: Dame Shirley photographed last week just after hearing another 500 Langporters had broken through the checkpoint at the Hanging Chapel, seeking a better life in Huish Episcopi. Several of them were reportedly bitten and killed by her special guard: the oom pah pahs living in Bonds Pool.
Fans and supporters include Huish Vicar Jess Pitman, a handful of pub landlords, staff at the Langport Arms Motel, stores up and down North Street, Cheapside and Bow Street, several current and former Langport Town Councillors and last but not least....Dame Shirley Nicholas. The leader of Huish Episcopi Parish Council, speaking from KGB headquarters in St Mary's Park, says she logs on every morning with a glass of gin before breakfast. Long may she reign.
Above: Dame Shirley photographed last week just after hearing another 500 Langporters had broken through the checkpoint at the Hanging Chapel, seeking a better life in Huish Episcopi. Several of them were reportedly bitten and killed by her special guard: the oom pah pahs living in Bonds Pool.
So many thanks to all our readers and also to those Chard and Bridgwater residents who just look at the pictures. Gratitude too to everyone who contributes with photographs and 'material' for the weekly updates. Please Carry On.
Still trying to sort the blog t-shirts in time for summer. These were some of the designs that proved popular when readers were asked what they'd buy...
Thanks again for all the feedback. It's always good to get random photos of daft goings-on around Langport and Huish. The sillier the better. Always good to have a local landmark/building/view in the foreground/background so that we can see it was taken around here. Contact me via the Facebook page or in the usual way. Group pictures (doing something strange) outside or inside (or on the roof of) public buildings are most welcome.
Legal Note#1
We do not name or identify local people in photographs if it is not appropriate to do so or if the nature of the picture would defame a person or business.
Legal Note#2
But we may print it anyway if it's worth the laugh.
Legal Note#1
We do not name or identify local people in photographs if it is not appropriate to do so or if the nature of the picture would defame a person or business.
Legal Note#2
But we may print it anyway if it's worth the laugh.
