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

Entry: The Boating Lake, Cleethorpes, NE Lincolnshire, UK - A37053524
Author: Galaxy Babe - U128652

Original field research of a newly-refurbished beauty spot in my own home town, what more could you ask?

Photos? Oh, OK then: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/galaxybabe/CleethorpesBoatingLake

You can blame me if you fall in love

GB

I'll just print this out for a nice leisurely read

(I wonder if we have any lakes here. I'm sure we must, but I'm not so sure there's water in them )

This is the sort of place I love to visit. Many thanks for sharing it with us.

Nitpicky things:



A bit wordy - why not just 'In springtime, you may be lucky...'



leaf-canopied paths?



This castle intrigues me - what sort of castle was it?



a bit wordy, I think.

Icy

Thanks for reading guys, and you're welcome Icy
<> is that better?

Everything else is done

Did you feel like you were walking round the lake with me as your Guide? That's how I wanted the article to come across.

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It's difficult to describe, it was a castle "front" like a front wall but with a huge gap that you could go inside and play. The blocks of stone seemed old to me and it seemed huge but was probably no more than 6ft square. Inside was dark, damp and musky-smelling, like the earth after rain. From the lakeside it looked like the front of a castle, with turrets at the top, and it was built into the embankment, you could go up the side although it was hellishly steep and muddy, I can recall grabbing tree roots to pull myself to the top, skimmed knuckles and knees, etc. The top you could run around on, and pretend you were defending the fort, as it were. You'd never go back down the same way, without risking breaking your neck, I'm sure many broken bones happened there in the school hols. That was the way you went home, as you came out opposite the bus stop (in those days I lived on the other side of Cleethorpes near Grimsby) now I live much nearer to the Boating Lake.

Great stuff, GB. I don't have anything else to say.

Thank you

Nice Entry, should please some of the PR critics

Think you need just a simple 'mock' before galleon, as I'm sure a real one hasn't been plonked in the sand, and you could remove the each other after lip-reading, I feel it's somewhat superfluous

Nice one. Can we expect some more about the Wellow in time, as you're recommending it.

And isn't it about time someone wrote an Entry about the RADAR scheme too?

done thanks Matt
Do you mean you want more info adding to this, or an Entry on The Wellow Hotel (separate)? Two hot meals for £8 is the offer at the moment, I could add that but these offers change regularly so it would soon date.

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No, no more in the entry about the Wellow, I was insinuating you should perhaps elaborate on the Wellow in its own Entry, if it comes highly recommended by yourself

Excellent

That was an evocative way to describe the darling little children at play

I only have these two comments:


>>Here is your first decision, possibly based on your circumstances.<<
There's something slightly disconnected about this - how about:
->Here you must make your first decision, possibly based on your circumstances.

>>its nickname locally is the 'one-man bandstand', because it wouldn't hold a string quartet, never mind a band<<
I'm curious - is it ever used?

<<>> it's exactly how I felt, it's amazing what you can tune out when you're used to them, it's a culture shock when you hear it disjointed though.

circumstances

<<<its nickname locally is the 'one-man bandstand', because it wouldn't hold a string quartet, never mind a band<<<

This is a long story...when the council announced they were going to build a bandstand (before the Boating Lake revamp) the dissenters were louder than the supporters. Apparently the councillors wanted to spend a huge wedge (£50,000) of counciltaxpayer cash which evoked a campaign against it from the get-go. In the end a compromise was reached, where they would allocate less than half the funds and everyone seemed happy. When it was unveiled to the public, it was like - erm, is that it? It's a joke, basically, a white elephant that cost £15,000 and an excellent advert for false economy. When Ken Dodd last appeared at the Memorial Hall (they've demolished the Winter Gardens) he joked that as the weather was nice he was asked if he could perform his show from the bandstand on the Boating Lake but was told that there wasn't room for his props suitcase so he refused.

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I'm sure courting couples would highly recommend it...

Hey, neat!

While since I've been there, but certainly remembered.

You're a bit dismissive of the light railway, though. For some (once) small boys, that was the main attraction.

Thanks Pin - you'd find a vast improvement on a revisit, I know

I don't consider the Light Railway part of the Boating Lake it runs past, yes, but stars before and finishes after. It deserves its own EGE, really, probably written by someone with fond memories

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I have stars on the brain!

It's Entries like these that bowl people over and make them wonder what places they like and would wish to share with others. Well Done GB

Thank you Opti, you just made my day

Looks fine GB - just a little thing - the link to the external entry from "refurbished boating lake".

I thought - "What entry does that link to ?" and clicked on it - only to be taken to an external site that is blocked by my company's internet filter. This is a danger with external sites, and I don't know if you want to re-consider that.

It's the same link in posting one, McKay, a good few photos of the refurbishment and views, etc. I don't know how to get around your filter, it's a Picasa photos website,

Should you be reading h2g2 at work? I mean, I know people who have been warned for doing such.

Should you be reading h2g2 at work? Well, what else would one do? Work?

Seriously though, you make a good point - didn't one of the german researchers nearly lose his job for just this reason?