Musings from the Merse
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Thankyou davydubbit for this image of the Scottish Border-the custom post and passport control to the left is I think a caff serving decent English scoff before facing the privations of Haggis, Neaps and a Full Scottish Breakfast All Day. I blog this only because of a little item in today's Berwickshire News reporting the theft of English flags from the 'Border Crossing' on the A1 at Lamberton, three miles north of Ber Wick. The Head of Regeneration (ugh) in the BBC (Berwick Borough Council) has said that thieves have 'yet again ruined the experience for visitors by stealing these flags' All those bus loads of people fleeing the barren wilds of Alba are bitterly disappointed by not having their hearts lifted by a glimpse of the Cross of St George before filling in their forms claiming political asylum and lower social security benefits.
One suspects the work of the BLF (Berwick Liberation Front) making a statement about the correct positioning of the border.
Or perhaps they are just yobs.
One suspects the work of the BLF (Berwick Liberation Front) making a statement about the correct positioning of the border.
Or perhaps they are just yobs.
Labels: Ber, English Border, Scottish Borders
Comments:
I may be misremembering this - but I'm sure the flags on the Scottish side are not lowerable by any Tam, Dick or Harry without a ladder (the winding gear or whatever flagpoles have to run the flag up the pole is elevated). On the English side they're conventionally sited - so any passing person could bring down the flag, bundle it in the back of his Vauxhall Corsa with 8 inch exhaust and be off.
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