I fell asleep during a visit to a historic market town quite near Bath and dreamed that I was eating Walls ice cream

You'd do better to thrive
By popping down the A345
And getting yourself a Shepton in Mallet

Sorry, it's too early for high-quality Somerset puns.
But the ice cream thing might be somethign to do with Wells/Walls?? plus the cathedral looks a bit like a big cream cake??

It's pissing down with rain in Bath today, and ice cream seems as far away as ever...

Sigh.

Now the soon-to-be-opening Spa (which I can see from my window as I write), now THAT might be interesting.

And if you can see the rain in Bath, you must be in Somerset - or at least (to get anal again) Bath and North East Somerset.

I however, AM in Wiltshire -- and it's pissing down here too. But I'm a Londonian.

They still do shurely? George Carey was Bishop of B&W before he became AoC.

there is, however, no evidence that he drowned babies in the font and ate them in the vestry afterwards.....

Although I currently sit at a desk here in B&NES, I actually COME from Wiltshurre.

Don't even get me started on the Somerset vs. Avon vs. B&NES nonsense. What a waste of time!

Wiltshire is ace though - even Trowbridge.

(well that's how cyril connolly got round it, and he was published in the sunday times for nearly 50 years, so it must be an ok technique)

The ace bits of Wiltshire are the chalky hilly bits, in my opinion. I could bore for England about those...

Up the Town (or down, depending on whether Andy King stays or goes)!

Denise, are you alright? Is Somerset getting you down?

I'm sitting RIGHT NOW in the middle of the old railway works: if I look left I can see a car park where the carriage works was, a corner of the Mechanics' Institution, the roof of the Health Hydro and a hillside full of terraces painted brown and cream (GWR colours = paint nicked from work).

If I look straight ahead I can see the roofs of various Shops - I mean Shops for making trains in, not Designer Outlets - and I believe the walls of this room where designed by a Great Briton name of Brunel in the 1840s.

How Swindon can you get? Andy Patrirdge eat your heart out.

Mark, isn't the all-too-predictable Swindon vs Oxford mutual hatred thing just depressing?

Now Bristol, that's another matter... :)