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Flick ([personal profile] flick) wrote2013-06-17 11:47 am
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Spalding.

Sounds a bit like a livestock disease, doesn't it? Not promising.

I will have a couple of hours to kill near Spalding, on a probably-wet (given the weather this year) Tuesday lunchtime.

Does anyone have any suggestion? I was briefly excited by the Bulb Museum, but then it turned out it was about plants. And I don't really like museums on my own, or hacking on a strange horse whilst trying to make small talk with a random teenaged girl.
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[personal profile] redbird 2013-06-17 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
To my ear, "Spalding" is either a Marx Brothers reference or a child's toy, a particular brand of pink rubber ball (pronounced "spaldeen" in the streets of my youth). I don't know if that sounds any more promising, though.
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[personal profile] flick 2013-06-18 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The Meaning Of Liff says it's that thing that you do when you put something too hot in your mouth...
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[personal profile] nwhyte 2013-06-17 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
There's the exciting Romany museum:
http://www.boswell-romany-museum.com/

Chain Bridge Forge in case you feel like some forging:
http://chainbridgeforge.sholland.org/

And not far from the exciting pipe organ collection at Burtey Fen:
http://www.burteyfen.co.uk/

Hmm, yes, I see what you mean!!!!!

[identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Take a good book and find an agreeable pub.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, indeed! The Romany one might not be too bad, but it might very easily be really, really dire.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
This is my current thinking. Or, if the weather is nice, an agreeable park.

[identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Flag Fen. http://www.vivacity-peterborough.com/museums-and-heritage/flag-fen/
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That does sound quite interesting: cheers for the tip!

[identity profile] miramon.livejournal.com 2013-06-17 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If Flag Fen is close enough for you to consider, and it was quite interesting when we went there, you might be better off going to Stamford or KIngs Lynn.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2013-06-18 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Are there good things to do there? I really don't know that part of the country at all!

[identity profile] miramon.livejournal.com 2013-06-18 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
They both have interestingly olde-worlde town centres. Stamford managed to survive the railway era almost unspoiled and was recently named the best place to live in Britain (http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/shortcuts/2013/mar/18/stamford-best-place-britain-world also http://www.stamford.co.uk/tourism/attractions.shtml) which doesn't really surprise me. There were good places to shop and to eat and I'd gladly go back there. If you've seen any period dramas on TV you'll probably recognise bits of it.

Kings Lynn has a nice old town around the old port (http://www.visitwestnorfolk.com/explore/kings-lynn), though the suburbs are bit less salubrious. It was definitely worth going to, and we could have stayed longer, but it wasn't as overwhelming as Stamford.
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[identity profile] flickgc.livejournal.com 2013-06-19 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ta for that. I'll have a look at the tourism stuff and see if there's anything I fancy, in case the weather isn't conducive to wandering.
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