Fell on deaf ears
Published: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
WHEN I was at the Slough Canal Festival I walked from the field and onto the towing path, writes Bill Ridgeway.
There to be met by a representative of CaRT with a spiel something like we look after Britain's waterways.
Rode very close
What, all of them, I thought. My reply was an inquisitively toned "Really?". At that point a cyclist rode by and very close to us and other people and I couldn't resist adding:
"And that is what you call looking after the canals?" I'm sure the meaning of the remark had absolutely no effect but it had to be said.