you couldn't make it up

A while back my old blogging chum Rilly Super, who worries so much that people will think she's making it all up, wrote about taking the train to Northumberland.

I knew we had really reached the North when we passed a group of workman erecting the new 'Welcome to Wife in The North Country' sign by the tracks

Do you think the Northumberland tourism authority knows their new county branding stategy was already being so sincerely promoted before they even launched it? the truth really is stranger than fiction, oops, sorry Rilly, stranger than non-fiction..