Bermuda triangle for folk thinking outside the box I
WAS browsing on line today and noticed someone asking Google if Macclesfield was a nice place to live.
Nice…nice…are kidding?
I wanted to reply but Google wouldn’t let me.
Anyone who has to ask that question should forfeit any right to even pass through Macclesfield.
Not only does it have fantastic forests, reservoirs, pubs and restaurants it has oodles of really eccentric people.
Remember postman Larry Heard who walked from Macclesfield to Buxton.
Yes, I know, no big deal but Larry walked it backwards. Imagine 12 miles of the UK’s most dangerous switch-backs roads…backwards.
His wife, Norma, said with wonderful understatement, “When Larry walks backwards he needs a guide to give him directions.”
(I wonder what happened to the guide on those blind bends?)
Short of jumping off Teggs Nose holding an umbrella I could not imagine anything more dangerous.
But, hey, Macc folk have no fear and Larry earned the MBE for his amazing efforts on
you behalf of the East Cheshire Hospice and I’m happy to salute a real Macclesfield legend.
And what about Mr Methane the performing flatulence artiste? How proud did you feel seeing him holding that microphone to his rectum and belting out the Blue Danube on Britain’s
Got Talent?
I doubt there was anyone in the country who didn’t think, ‘this guy must be from Macclesfield.’
We are a magnet for people who think outside the box.
I read in the Manchester Evening News that officers from Cheshire Police and Rural Crime had been patrolling the area when they noticed a vehicle missing a front headlight, and had its bumper held together with tape.
“To our surprise the vehicle contained three occupants of all of which had travelled from the Manchester area and were not from the same household,” the force wrote on Facebook.
“On inspection of the vehicle we confirmed front-end damage to the light and bumper held together with wrapping tape.”
Now take a look at the photograph. How would you assess the likelihood of making it back home in that vehicle?
They had more chance of spearing a sword fish in South Park.
But, this is Macclesfield, the Bermuda Triangle of eccentricity.
It just sucks them in and I haven’t even mentioned that guy who held up a shop in town wearing a monkey mask and said, when told how little cash there was in the till, “I’ll come back later.”
Macclesfield… don’t you just love it?