Redditch, Birmingham's sewer
I lived above a pub there for a year and it was not a good place to live. On entering Redditch by car you come to a rather large roundabout. One day I drove round the island and there was a big message written on a white sheet which sums the town up in a few words "Happy 30th Birthday Grandma"
(amsterdam_neild, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 8:32, 4 replies)

Absolute quality...
*click*
( Cawl, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 8:43, closed)

Redditch
OMG, Redditch. Words cannot explain what the place is like. I lived there in the late 80s / early 90s. Around the time of the 1st Gulf war.

In the local pub - the "Book and Candle" known to locals as the "Crook and Vandal" the landlord, to some applause, called on the RAF to bomb Redditch instead of the Iraqis as it would be better for Britain.

He wasn't wrong...
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 10:57, closed)

Indeed...
At primary school, I shared a table with L, whose mother I happened to meet a few years later. By this time I was 15 or 16. L had just hd her first child.

I'm now rising 32, and therefore so is she. It's entirely possible that she's a grandmother.


(Worse: when I told L's mother that, aged 16, I was probably too young to have started a family, she looked genuinely confused.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 11:27, closed)

and so...
what does this mean for us unfortunate souls that live in nearby districts??? Yes, because of the unfortunate uptake of contraceptives in redditch, all our services are now run from redditch.. as they have more use for them... anything that causes me to go to that vile town - including driving lessons makes feeding timeatthezoo not a happy bunny.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 12:30, closed)