Comments on: If Totnes is twinned with Narnia, then Newton Abbot is twinned with Despair says Matt Harvey http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/01/10/if-totnes-is-twinned-with-narnia-then-newton-abbot-is-twinned-with-despair-says-matt-harvey/ The People's Republic of South Devon is a left-leaning magazine that champions lesser covered local news along with national and global issues. We value diversity, equality, participation and solidarity. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LizYan http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/01/10/if-totnes-is-twinned-with-narnia-then-newton-abbot-is-twinned-with-despair-says-matt-harvey/comment-page-1/#comment-132624 LizYan Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:20:56 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=9741#comment-132624 No, no, no, I think we can be more generous than that! Surely Newton Abbot is twinned with Trumpton. Folks may be a bit wooden, but at least they gets things done.!!?! No, no, no, I think we can be more generous than that! Surely Newton Abbot is twinned with Trumpton. Folks may be a bit wooden, but at least they gets things done.!!?!

]]> By: Paul Stevenson http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/01/10/if-totnes-is-twinned-with-narnia-then-newton-abbot-is-twinned-with-despair-says-matt-harvey/comment-page-1/#comment-132621 Paul Stevenson Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:14:42 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=9741#comment-132621 Befor my retierment I spent years trying to put a little culture in to Newton Abbot. It has not yet changed notisably but I am not despairing as I see lots of the yong people I worked with putting on small events. I expect thease events to get bigger as they get older, though I will probably not live to see it. I wonder what the image of the two towns will be in 50 years. Perhaps we should twin Totness and Newton Abbot. Befor my retierment I spent years trying to put a little culture in to Newton Abbot. It has not yet changed notisably but I am not despairing as I see lots of the yong people I worked with putting on small events. I expect thease events to get bigger as they get older, though I will probably not live to see it. I wonder what the image of the two towns will be in 50 years. Perhaps we should twin Totness and Newton Abbot.

]]> By: Barry Mañana http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/01/10/if-totnes-is-twinned-with-narnia-then-newton-abbot-is-twinned-with-despair-says-matt-harvey/comment-page-1/#comment-132609 Barry Mañana Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:02:49 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=9741#comment-132609 If Totnes is a fragrant wet-wipe - Newton Abbot is a used Brillo Pad. Not all bad though - there's humour to be found here in a rock-salt-and-nails way. ASDA in Abbers just kills me - think Hajj with shopping trolleys - totally teeming with hordes of hunter gatherers that would frankly look more elegant in the water. But get talking to someone when you're slo-mowing at the checkout and, despite the often Easter Island stoney visage, you'll find people to be affable and open. Frankly, I'd rather have that than the hand-me-down-Californian Totnes' ten-mile stare. If Totnes is a fragrant wet-wipe – Newton Abbot is a used Brillo Pad.

Not all bad though – there’s humour to be found here in a rock-salt-and-nails way.

ASDA in Abbers just kills me – think Hajj with shopping trolleys – totally teeming with hordes of hunter gatherers that would frankly look more elegant in the water. But get talking to someone when you’re slo-mowing at the checkout and, despite the often Easter Island stoney visage, you’ll find people to be affable and open.

Frankly, I’d rather have that than the hand-me-down-Californian Totnes’ ten-mile stare.

]]> By: Jane T Blammer http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2010/01/10/if-totnes-is-twinned-with-narnia-then-newton-abbot-is-twinned-with-despair-says-matt-harvey/comment-page-1/#comment-131964 Jane T Blammer Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:09:38 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=9741#comment-131964 It's not much of a choice you give us here - suggesting that at least there's hope in Narnia. Anthony Steen isn't the White Witch - far too ungainly. The White Witch is that vile new age faerie (whichever one you currently dislike most: see Tim Minchin's Storm) surrounded by the gnomes of Hood Manor, it's everlasting irrational winter in her company. Some people go to Newton Abbot to escape her (and the gnomes) and who can blame them? But Matt Harvey knows this. btw 'Storm': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s It’s not much of a choice you give us here – suggesting that at least there’s hope in Narnia.

Anthony Steen isn’t the White Witch – far too ungainly. The White Witch is that vile new age faerie (whichever one you currently dislike most: see Tim Minchin’s Storm) surrounded by the gnomes of Hood Manor, it’s everlasting irrational winter in her company. Some people go to Newton Abbot to escape her (and the gnomes) and who can blame them? But Matt Harvey knows this.

btw ‘Storm’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s

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