‘Ole in the Ground

There I was, a-digging this hole
A hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was
There was I, digging it deep
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep
When along, comes this bloke in a bowler which he lifted and scratched his head
Well we looked down the hole, poor demented soul and he said Do you mind if I make a suggestion? Don't dig there, dig it elsewhere
Your digging it round and it ought to be square
The shape of it's wrong, it's much too long
And you can't put hole where a hole don't belong I ask, what a liberty eh
Nearly bashed him right in the bowler Well there was I, stood in me hole
Shovelling earth for all I was worth
There was him, standing up there
So grand and official with his nose in the air
So I gave him a look sort of sideways and I leaned on my shovel and sighed Well I lit me a fag and having took a drag I replied I just couldn't bear, to dig it elsewhere
I'm digging it round co's I don't want it square
And if you disagree it doesn't bother me
That's the place where the holes gonna be Well there we were, discussing this hole
A hole in the groud so big and sort of round it was
Well it's not there now, the ground's all flat
And beneath it is the bloke in the bowler hat And that's that

The hole in the ground that was once The St James Centre is certainly big and round and deep, making the workmen appear as ants as we watched from the John Lewis café. The extra image is of the continuing destruction of the Thistle Hotel.

His Lordship walked to the increasingly hard to get to JL to splash the cash on a duvet cover....... and share a scone. Changed days indeed and alarming to know that the walk there and back was only 2 miles, certainly not far enough to justify that half scone.