Digby: Lincolnshire’s Forgotten Wasteland

Living in Digby, Lincolnshire

If you can survive the only road that makes Bolivia’s “Death Road” look like a walk in the park: the B1188, then you will stumble into Digby. Digby is a quaint little sanctuary where, and I mean this in every sense of the word, nothing happens. Nothing. No Post Office, a [allegedly] ****** pub and […]

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Mablethorpe: Oldies ghost town

Living in Maplethorpe, Lincolnshire

Having lived in Mablethorpe for 12 years of my childhood and recently moving back to take care of an elderly relative, I think I can say I know Mablethorpe pretty well. It’s a ghost town. Both banks have now shut down and good luck trying to use the post office for your banking needs if […]

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Lincoln: The Cathedral and Holiday Inn city

Living in Lincoln, Lincolnshire

When I first saw Lincoln I was in awe at the sight of one of the most pretty cathedrals in Britain. However that was all but gone when I entered a city where the greatest monuments not on a big posh hill was a holiday inn, some office blocks (very sparse) and the holy Morrison’s. […]

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Skegness – where the Northerners go to die

Living in Skegness, Lincolnshire

Skegness cannot easily be described to those who have not experienced its uniquely wrist-slashing bleakness and the true sense of hopelessness that hangs heavy in the air of this insipid little seaside hovel. From the moment you arrive until the time you flee this ****-******** scab of a town, you are relentlessly stunned at what […]

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Newark-on-Trent, what is there to be proud of?

Living in Newark-on-Trent

I’ve lived in Newark-on-Trent for almost 20 years and can’t stand the place. It promotes itself as an ‘historic market town’ (aren’t they all?) and has next to nothing going for it. The locals don’t like outsiders, and that includes people from nearby towns, never mind actual foreigners. They seem to feel being Newark born […]

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Sleaford, bloody Sleaford!

Is Sleaford a nice place to live

Welcome to Sleaford in Lincolnshire twinned with some german town. This market town is plagued with ***** in fact you can’t move for them and there’s plenty of fast food places that cater for the too-closely-related uneducated ner-do-wells. From them loitering at the train station abusing passengers, sniffing glue or using the the bridge that crosses the […]

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Lincoln official retirement home of the area for almost 2,000 years

Living or moving to Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln… capital of the fabled geographical county of Lincolnshire, jewel of the East midlands and official retirement home of the area for almost two thousand years. Lincoln is a city of 80,000 that is divided into two parts. On top of the hill and underneath the hill. The top part will be of no interest […]

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