Hiding in the Garden

 So Rishi popped by my home town on Saturday*. Did he visit one of the run-down estates? No, he visited the Walled Garden, latest attraction in the literal palace** at the far end of the Market Place.

Tories gonna Tory.

* If I'd known I'd have popped down to heckle, but Walled Garden, inside a walled palace - god forbid he might meet any of the hoi-polloi.

** The Bishop***'s Palace, now owned by a multi-millionaire philanthropist.

*** Bishop of Durham, once the Prince Bishop of Durham, charged with rallying the North against the XheathenX XScotsX XWhite WalkersX Labour voters

Go to the back of beyond, then turn right

 I was chatting with the passenger assistance guy at Darlington this morning, who it turned out was an ex-squaddie, and he mentioned he'd done a tour in the Falklands c2008, which is out of the way by most people's standards.

Then he added that while there he'd had a few days aboard the Royal Navy's Falkland Island Guardship while it headed off on patrol. When he said they gone to "South..." I expected it to be followed by "Georgia", which is another 900 miles into the nautical back of beyond. but no, it was "Sandwich Islands", which is yet another 1,100 miles into the Southern Ocean after you get to South Georgia.

Now that's somewhere not many people can say they've been!