Intermittently regular correspondent, David Kendrick (#0609H) has explained his recent dearth of communiques. Not a sign of incipient polophobia he assures us. By way of proof he has sent us the picture you see below of the leaning pole of Morville (Salop). Found in the village hall car park. Morville being famous for a book my wife once read called “The Morville Hours” by Katherine Swift – about a garden I got dragged around a couple of years ago. My sulk lasted almost a full week after that. And “Salop” being ye olde name for the county of Shropshire. People like me, and David Kendrick I presume, refuse to give it it’s modern name much preferring the owd word Salop. Salop, being the county wherein I also formed a society to maintain a stout postulation of Phlogiston theory.
Anyway, David Kendrick, no, this could never qualify as a Pole of the Month because it has its head buried in the hedge. We like to see its face.
The second photo he sent us is of an array of pole engineers’ climbing equipment at the Kidderminster Railway Museum where he is a volunteer archivist and trainee boring old fart. I can’t help but wonder what one goes on to be once graduated from this latter training course.
With regard the second photo. Through the wonders of internet technology, if you look away from the table full of tools for 10 seconds, then look back again, you will find I have removed one of the items. You pass the test if you can tell me which one it is.
