please empty your brain below
I'm bemused by staccato sentences. Sentences are seldom this truncated. Short sentences make it tricky to read. Framlingham looks a lovely place.

Frank F | 16.10.17 - 7:16 a.m. | #

Do we have a surprise guest author???

John Smith | 16.10.17 - 7:28 a.m. | #

Could the guest author be DG impersonating a six-year-old, or Ed Sheeran (26) himself?

A Literary Historian | 16.10.17 - 7:44 a.m. | #

I wondered if dg had found a copy of Terry Wogan's 'Janet and John' stories in the Framlingham Bookshop.

Gordon | 16.10.17 - 8:08 a.m. | #

For me, reading this whilst I'm supposed to be working, the short sentences are fantastic - I can snatch a sentence or two by just glancing at the screen when apparently doing something else. My close observation of the photos, however, tends to give away my deceit.

The Legendary Zelda | 16.10.17 - 8:31 a.m. | #

DG could do travel in he same way that xkcd sometimes does science: https://xkcd.com/1133/

peter | 16.10.17 - 8:44 a.m. | #

Perhaps the writing style indicates that Framlingham is pretty - but dull.

Still anon | 16.10.17 - 8:45 a.m. | #

Do you mean 'knitted hanging baskets'? As your child inspired writing implies, DG?

b | 16.10.17 - 8:49 a.m. | #

Might it just be DG having fun experimenting with different styles? I enjoyed it as a 'what I did on my school trip' kind of thing - albeit with perfect grammar and spelling.

Sarah | Homepage | 16.10.17 - 9:22 a.m. | #

Perhaps DG is actually Ed Sheeran? Imagine that, a multi million selling artist spending his spare time writing about a (world famous) bus stop in Bow. If a song on his new album is about next train indicators, then we'll know for sure.

robbaker292 | 16.10.17 - 9:39 a.m. | #

needs a page for each sentence, complete with illustration

Caz | 16.10.17 - 10:59 a.m. | #

This reads like one of Wikipedia's Simple English pages.

Adrian | Homepage | 16.10.17 - 11:37 a.m. | #

A great way to find out about a place. Sticks in the mind just as a visit might do for a child. Keep up the good work DG introducing us to places we might like to visit but have never thought of.

Tones | 16.10.17 - 11:42 a.m. | #

I wonder. Has DG been rummaging through his old school books? Perhaps there was there a report of a visit to Framlingham Castle in the distant past?

Andrew | 16.10.17 - 12:18 p.m. | #

It looks like Basic English to me. I like a change of style.

Framlingham is a nice place. It is difficult to get there without a car. Galloways bus goes there from Ipswich. It takes about an hour. It runs every couple of hours. There are also buses from other places.

Malcolm | 16.10.17 - 1:47 p.m. | #

“Castle On The Hill” has sold a little less than 500,000.

The rest of its ‘sales’ are fictional sales imputed by the OCC based on an arbitrary streaming formula.

Madison | 16.10.17 - 1:57 p.m. | #

Sometimes, Mr Geezer writes in a different style from his usual one. It is well known. Once, he wrote a piece about a whale a whale! This is in a different style from that one, but also in a different style from his usual one.

Andrew M | 16.10.17 - 2:02 p.m. | #

What intrigues me is the town sign.
Why put a post box in its own space? Every village has at least one; what's so special that it merits its own space on the village sign?

dg writes: Framlingham has the two oldest pillar boxes still in use by the Royal Mail.

Stephen Bird | 16.10.17 - 3:06 p.m. | #

I saw it as a comment on the infantilisation of the heritage industry. A friend who worked for the National Trust told me of a mother who turned up to his place of work demanding to know "what have you got for children?". "Only the finest garden in Kent" he replied.

tintinhaddock | 18.10.17 - 10:04 a.m. | #











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