The great engineering polymath LTC Rolt lived for a while on a narrow boat moored at Stanley Pontlarge. Now there's a name!
Sorry to be pedantic whilst he did inded live at Stanley Pontlarge, no canals nearby for mooring any canal boats and the River Avon some distance away.
Two adjacent Oxfordshire village if their nameswere reversed would make good characters in a Jilly Cooper type racy novel. Berrick Salome and Brightwell Baldwin
The great engineering polymath LTC Rolt lived for a while on a narrow boat moored at Stanley Pontlarge. Now there's a name!
Sorry to be pedantic whilst he did indeed live at Stanley Pontlarge, no canals nearby for mooring any canal boats and the River Avon some distance away.
I've often felt that the Ship is one of the few places where pedantry is a shared pleasure; not a vice. It can give you a sense of belonging, you know.
Finching Field doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?
May I add Britwell Salome to the reversible Oxfordshire names? I bowled appallingly there last Sunday, but the five good balls all took wickets and I finished with 5-34.
There's a hamlet near here called Punkeydoodles, sometimes written as Punkey Doodles. I am trying and failing to imagine the person to whom that might be attached. (It would make a good Spoonerism, but this isn't about dogs).
Wasn't Punkeydoodles the younger brother of a school chum of Bertie Wooster?
There's a hamlet near here called Punkeydoodles, sometimes written as Punkey Doodles. I am trying and failing to imagine the person to whom that might be attached. (It would make a good Spoonerism, but this isn't about dogs).
Wasn't Punkeydoodles the younger brother of a school chum of Bertie Wooster?
Could well be, but to me, sounds more like the lap dog of one of the more difficult of Bertie's aunts, or a female Glossop, possibly the subject of some fiendish plot to kidnap the beloved pooch so as to gain wondrous social credit by restoring it to its owner. The plot would of course go horribly wrong.
There's a hamlet near here called Punkeydoodles, sometimes written as Punkey Doodles. I am trying and failing to imagine the person to whom that might be attached. (It would make a good Spoonerism, but this isn't about dogs).
Wasn't Punkeydoodles the younger brother of a school chum of Bertie Wooster?
Could well be, but to me, sounds more like the lap dog of one of the more difficult of Bertie's aunts, or a female Glossop, possibly the subject of some fiendish plot to kidnap the beloved pooch so as to gain wondrous social credit by restoring it to its owner. The plot would of course go horribly wrong.
This. Definitely this.
Back to placenames which could be personal names - Jemimaville and Barbaraville are one-word place names, but could be 1920s flapper sisters - Jemima and Barbara Ville, both sporting bobbed hair and holding a cigarette in an elegant cigarette holder.
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Alas, not since 1991. It's now in Pall Mall. The old building is listed, but I'm not sure why that requires the name to remain on the front.
Sorry to be pedantic whilst he did inded live at Stanley Pontlarge, no canals nearby for mooring any canal boats and the River Avon some distance away.
Two adjacent Oxfordshire village if their nameswere reversed would make good characters in a Jilly Cooper type racy novel. Berrick Salome and Brightwell Baldwin
After I'd posted that I wondered if I'd got it wrong; I shouldn't believe everything on the interweb!
Basil Don and Bill Ericay.
I'll get me coat.
And Margaret Ting.
I've often felt that the Ship is one of the few places where pedantry is a shared pleasure; not a vice. It can give you a sense of belonging, you know.
Along with Brad Well, I suppose...
May I add Britwell Salome to the reversible Oxfordshire names? I bowled appallingly there last Sunday, but the five good balls all took wickets and I finished with 5-34.
Wasn't Punkeydoodles the younger brother of a school chum of Bertie Wooster?
This. Definitely this.
Back to placenames which could be personal names - Jemimaville and Barbaraville are one-word place names, but could be 1920s flapper sisters - Jemima and Barbara Ville, both sporting bobbed hair and holding a cigarette in an elegant cigarette holder.
[Co Durham has some other no-name classics. No Place and Pity Me]