h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

By rewriting,rather than updating, you have a better article, but you've lost our footnotes about the scaffolding and the coloured fields

Well yes - but _I_ didn't rewrite it at all....it was edited into shape.
(We shall just have to add the coloured fields and scaffolding again )

OK, here goes.
If you ascend either of the Lincoln heights, if it isn't raining (and you'd be a bit mad to go up the Castle Walk if it is) you'll see a beautiful field patchwork any time of year but especially when the oil-seed rape or the falx are in bloom. The top deck of the Lincoln to Grimsby bus is good for this too

Extra points if you can guess what falx is

...works up to "falx"... but the X3 bus is now a single-decker bus due to low demand (it was less than half full when Christina and I were travelling on it).

Now as for scaffolding - the Cathedral has been under a shroud of scaffold for as long as I can remember bu the cleaning has nearly finished so if you are thinking of a visit, this summer would be good.

Any cathedral Richard and I have ever visited has had scaffolding on the outside somewhere, and sometimes on the inside. In fact, it's not a proper cathedral if it's not at least partly shrouded in scaffolding!

When I finished school (which now seems a very long time ago ) I did an inter-rail tour of the major European cities and the _only_ places we found that weren't under scaffold were the blue mosque and the Eiffel tower - though in the latter case, scaffold would be superfluous .