Scene: The ticket office in our local railway station.
Karen: Can I have a return to Slough for tomorrow morning, and a receipt, please?
Nasty old lady who sells tickets and never smiles: Are you going anywhere nice?
September 22, 2004
Quote of the Day
Did you see that supposedly The Office has made Slough an even less popular place for companies to be based in? I thought that was hilarious – as if anything could make Slough less appealing.
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death! – John Betjeman
I had a friend who lived in Slough.
Really.
Thank you Adrian. Although I did have it covered.
I once went to Slough.
I lived in Hemel Hempstead at the time.
I remember thinking, “Oh, Slough’s not such a bad place, really.”
There’s a lesson there, somewhere.
You know I try for poetry and you slam it in my face.
Sulks.
Well, I spend years building a poetry archive, and what do you do when you want a poem? You get it from somewhere else.
Sulks.
Don’t blame me, blame google.
I know, I know, it’s only 13th.
Unlucky. If it was top 3 ….
Sounds like a Friday campaign to me!
Oh… was I supposed to wait until Friday?
I used to live near Slough. Close enough to have a Slough postcode… never recovered from that really.
Me too, Lori. The Crown, in Farnham Royal to be exact. Very pretty, but WAY too close to Slough.