Showing posts with label Hebden Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hebden Bridge. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

…but the sky is empty

Finally, we went to pretty, tiny, Hebden Bridge (lesbian capital of Britain) one day, climbed up to the village above - Heptonstall - to visit Sylvia Plath's grave (festooned with gifts from miserable acolytes and vandalised by those who wanted the 'Hughes' removed, given that their relationship - and his behaviour - is what led her to suicide (the same happened to Assia Wevill, for whom Hughes eventually left Plath, when she in turn killed herself).



Then the Map Twats went sledging.









Monday, 9 February 2009

Fun-packed weekends

Instead of going to watch Rochdale FC from an executive box (pitch frozen), we ate a lot of cheese, went to Manchester's finest Japanese restaurant and tried not to get annoyed by fashionable types, then went sledging above Heptonstall after paying our respects (!) at the grave of Sylvia Plath. I bought a lot of books and got heckled by lesbians in Hebden Bridge in the style of Drive-By Abuser. All in all, a great weekend.

Apologies to Jo's parents. Despite my best man's speech at their daughter's wedding opening with a Rohypnol joke, they tried to say hello to me at the Richard Thompson gig, but I didn't hear - I feel really bad.