It's bonkers here though

I was there for that event. shutting a road for a day was just the tip of the iceberg.

I think his only link to the palce is that he and his wife own one of the houses on the Royal Crescent, and they spend a bit of time there.

The city centre was all clogged up with thousands of people, with a one-entry-one-exit system that funnelled people around like a herd of cattle, and a massive police and security presence with crush barriers all around. The main street was sectioned off, shops had to close so that members of the public couldn't use them to circumvent the barriers, and security were only letting a certain number of people into each section (so families got split up if they didn't arrive together and couldn't be in the same half-empty pen). They even had the mounted police out, FFS! For Bath! Turning on christmas lights!

After lots of naff music and the local news presenter making a ham-fisted attempt to present it all, he turned up about 20 minutes late and spoke for 5 minutes, covering fantastic topics such as his favourite shop in Bath (conveniently a sponsor of the event!), cracked an unfunny joke about how Weston-super-Mare was improved by being bombed in the war, waxed lyrical about how he wasn't actually even going to be in the UK (let alone Bath) over Christmas because he was off to his home in sunny California, and finished off with a very poor impression of Basil Fawlty.

And muggins here wasted an hour of his life hoping that there'd be some half-decent gags. Bloody ludicrous.

And the lights themselves were crap.

(All very Bath, though.)

Posted By: CWC, Feb 23, 11:46:57