Caption: Who has nicked that statue of Leda, the swine?
We are off to the ballet, guess what we are going to see.
This reminds me of the Danny Kaye song:
“With a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
And a head so noble and high …”
I’ve never understood why Worcester and Tewkesbury a few mile upstream were ever built on the banks of the Severn, which presumably has flooded since Offa was a Dyke (or dike, if you prefer).
Funny!
I do not think it is the wisest picture to put in a national newspaper, knowing that our Eastern European parasites, sorry workers/immigrants have a penchant for swan anyway they can get it, preferably dead on a plate!
Hopefully some of the locals are laoded for bear.
The answer being Janus, in case you did not know. It used to be allowed to flood all over and would therefore be shallow, now with flood defences the flooding is pushed into smaller areas and are commensurately deeper and damaging. They did the same with the Towy in Wales, built defences to stop Llandovery flooding and pushed it all downstream between Llangadog and Llandeilo, I know well, I lived there in the flooded bit. They then built defences round Llandeilo and it was thus held back and even worse. I rented an old farmhouse built in the 1700s, when they could build anywhere they liked and would certainly not have built in floods, I use to have it 18″ in the house! Needless to say, the rent was a song.
Sorry Janus: Tewksbury (Glos.) is 23miles DOWNSTREAM from Worcester (which is in some other county) or it was when I was travelling the Severn. Yes, Mrs O. is right it’s not global warming but the unintended consequences of flood control schemes.
Abject apologies, LW. You are right again! 🙂
“Anyone got their Sat Nav with them? I don’t know this stretch of the river. Much bigger than I remember it.”
(Fantstic photo! )
I had the pleasure of navigating it in a narrow boat in the ’70s. Lovely scenery, quaint places, wet rain.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Fantastic picture.
Caption: Who has nicked that statue of Leda, the swine?
We are off to the ballet, guess what we are going to see.
This reminds me of the Danny Kaye song:
“With a glide and a whistle and a snowy white back
And a head so noble and high …”
I’ve never understood why Worcester and Tewkesbury a few mile upstream were ever built on the banks of the Severn, which presumably has flooded since Offa was a Dyke (or dike, if you prefer).
Funny!
I do not think it is the wisest picture to put in a national newspaper, knowing that our Eastern European parasites, sorry workers/immigrants have a penchant for swan anyway they can get it, preferably dead on a plate!
Hopefully some of the locals are laoded for bear.
The answer being Janus, in case you did not know. It used to be allowed to flood all over and would therefore be shallow, now with flood defences the flooding is pushed into smaller areas and are commensurately deeper and damaging. They did the same with the Towy in Wales, built defences to stop Llandovery flooding and pushed it all downstream between Llangadog and Llandeilo, I know well, I lived there in the flooded bit. They then built defences round Llandeilo and it was thus held back and even worse. I rented an old farmhouse built in the 1700s, when they could build anywhere they liked and would certainly not have built in floods, I use to have it 18″ in the house! Needless to say, the rent was a song.
Sorry Janus: Tewksbury (Glos.) is 23miles DOWNSTREAM from Worcester (which is in some other county) or it was when I was travelling the Severn. Yes, Mrs O. is right it’s not global warming but the unintended consequences of flood control schemes.
Abject apologies, LW. You are right again! 🙂
“Anyone got their Sat Nav with them? I don’t know this stretch of the river. Much bigger than I remember it.”
(Fantstic photo! )
I had the pleasure of navigating it in a narrow boat in the ’70s. Lovely scenery, quaint places, wet rain.
Me too. Lots of good pubs around there.