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June 24, 2006
The Mayor of Bloggington on Sea
British history has idiosyncracies: did you know that Berwick upon Tweed has been at war with Russia since 1854? Well, alone of Engish towns, Bloggington on Sea has a hereditary mayor from Naples. The Tomato family have been Mayors of Bloggington since the arrival of Julius Caesar in the town in 55 BC, watched over by Mr Grimsdyke's ancestor from Grimsdyke tower on Grimsdyke hill.
The current Mayor, Don Machine Gun Tomato is, of course, Mr Grimsdyke's boss, and keeps a watchful eye on the city finances. It is this long standing cultural Anglo Italian dynastic relationship that has always been so fruitful for the libraries of Bloggington. Nobody walks across the path of Machine Gun Tomato.
(Don Machine Gun Tomato, Mayor of Bloggington on Sea, is most certainly no relation of Lady Cheese and Tomato Sandwich, RAF, KGB,MLA,MFI who appears elsewhere in these memoires)
Posted by Tim Coates at June 24, 2006 10:39 PM
Comments
Dear Tim,
Why no hyphens in Bloggington on Sea? Is there rhyme or reason to the hyphenation of multiword (or multi-word) town names? And please don't think this trivial question means I'm not paying attention to your far from trival (far-from-trivial) postings!
Just checked Google: there's a town called Winchester-on-the-Severn in Maryland.
Cheers, Karen.
Posted by: Karen Christensen at June 25, 2006 4:23 PM
In the case of Bloggington on Sea, there are no hyphens because of the Italian connection. In 1491, according to the Annals of Blogging Ton the Mayor of the town: Leonardo da Tomato declared that the town, known to his family as Marina di Bloggington, would be known as Bloggington on Sea with no hyphens, as hyphens are not known in Italy. Nor are custard creams.
Posted by: Tim at June 25, 2006 6:08 PM