Hi Rhiannon
Yes, I know what you mean about Marly, but all the same I quite like it. Architecturally it's quite interesting, but it has that strange upper/middle class poshness rubbing cheek to cheek with appalling rural/small-town poverty and deprivation. My home town (Stratford-on-Avon) was the same.

Once, as I was walking from the car park at the back of the shops to the main street, a freshly killed and partly-eaten pigeon dropped out of the sky directly in front of me! It whizzed past my face millimetres away and landed with a real thump at my feet. I guessed a hawk dropped it. It felt quite freaky at the time.

I'm going fishing for barbel in the Kennet on Friday :-) Not in Marly though.
J
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