sunday times

Richmond was in the Sunday Times last week (who says this blog isn't first with the local gossip?), 'Richmond is not Harrogate' begins the article. Bloody hell, these lads really do their research don't they? They obviously sent their top elite crack reporter on this job. We're 'ungentrified', the article goes on to say, which perhaps answers the question as to who that Londoner was with a notebook on whose feet I dropped a case of white lightning when I was coming out of Bargin Booze last week. Well, it makes a change to hear something different in the press as the last national coverage of the town was when Richmondshire District Council made it into the Rotten Boroughs column of Private Eye and at least the Frenchgate Hotel owner can counter the critics and say there really are people with thirty quid to spend on a lunch. They may all live 250 miles down the motorway but they do exist. Anyway, as it's been raining all weekend here's a puddle for you to share in the Richmond experience. You don't get that standard of ripple in the Sunday Times you know. That's f***king art, that is.