A selection of your correspondence to Carry On Langport this week:
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Dear Sir,
As affordable homes to rent for locals starting out in life continue to be replaced by Air B&Bs and a growing number of shops take the decision to sell a ceramic egg cup for 45 quid, can I say that my wife and I are delighted that we chose to move to Langport from Surrey.
We're even more delighted that the Home Office is considering renaming Bow Street 'Chelsea High Street'
Please pass on our congratulations to the town's Glitterati, all we need now is a railway station and a branch of H&M and the town's totally fit for us.
Regards,
Jerry Leadbetter
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To the local blogger,
As we only make between £50 (on a bad day) and £150 (on a half decent day) on our market stall selling crockery from my late mother-in-law's pantry, my husband and I decided earlier this week that the current fee of 70 pounds to have a stall at the Thursday night Christmas market in Langport was just a tad too much for us.
We will, though, continue to sell our goods in Frome, despite the fact that working class locals there have now been completely driven out and only shop in the overpriced convenience store.
Many thanks.
Sophie Wessex
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Dear Carry On Langport,
Can I just say how delighted we all were to hear that the price of a plot at the Langport Christmas market this week was so cheap.
In fact, my staff and I don't think you're getting value for money and if you really want to drive out all the local artisans completely, we think it should at least be doubled.....tripled even.
[I mean who needs a hugely popular curry stall?]
Please pass on to whom it may concern.
Many thanks.
Every one at the Newt, Castle Cary.
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To the Editor,
Bruton used to be a bit like Langport.
Then we brought in the townies, daft market stall plot prices, a bunch of business owners who think they're in Frome - sorry - Canterbury and started renaming places and local landmarks to make them sound more middle class.
Then it all went tits up and lots its soul.
Careful what you wish for Langport.
Best wishes,
The Mayor of Bruton [now living on a housing estate in Bristol]
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To the Carry On bloke,
Shopping in Bath this week, waiting to get my 'If you want a good market, you've got to pay for it' T-shirt printed, I bumped in to some friends - Devon and Sky - who in between skiing holidays in the Alps and Safaris in Kenya have started making tiny cheap little leather bracelets and selling them for 20 quid.
"Where do you think they wouldn't be at all popular at that price?" they asked.
I didn't hesitate to suggest my home town of Langport which, sadly, they turned their noses up at within seconds.
This is what we have to put up with. Complete negativity from the upper classes.
If only we had a railway station, a branch of John Lewis and a private school then we could be just like Bruton......fucked.
Many thanks.
George Roper.
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That's it for this week folks!
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