Entries tagged with city: leicester

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stop the clocks

the chimey thing failed to go off yesterday. several times. hurrah!

visited parents at weekend. mapped thurnby, bushby and scraptoft to more-or-less completion. also, bit of evington. linky

have been doing some piecing together of evidence regarding the history of the roads. ( boring )

there was a woman on the tube this morning reading tuesday's horoscope. i was trying to decide whether this is more or less silly than reading today's.

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you couldn't make it up

A coven of witches was today claiming victory after developers changed the name of a £350 million shopping centre after a year-long dispute.

"Highcross Quarter" was a pretty feeble name anyway, although mildly better than "The Shires". Although the neopagan website is claiming primacy, it is interesting to note that it registered its domain name on July 14, 2006. This is also the day that the new name of the shopping centre was published in the local paper, the Leicester Mercury. This seems rather a coincedence.

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CSL yesterday was good. Average guess for number of sweeties was 140, a bit above the real figure of 110.

They seem to have started work on what used to be The Spread Eagle on Charles Street. Signage has been removed, it has been painted blackish, and it has a "TO LET : CAFE BAR/RESTUARANT" sign.