All: For nPower has commanded it.
Archdruid: For she was unclean.
All: She, who once was so shiny, the new wave of coal-fired power station - yet brought down by clean air legislation.
Archdruid: The demolition dudes did their destructive deeds.
All: And great was the fall thereof.
Archdruid: Oh, Didcot Multimammia! You, who welcomed students home from a trip to Town! You gathered us to your motherly breast as we longed for dreaming spires.
All: You pumped acid rain across the Buckinghamshire skies. On a clear day, they claimed you could be seen from Dunstable Downs.
Archdruid: No more will you guard the approaches to the Vale!
All: And a journey to Wycombe will be without interest.
Archdruid: Let them be abandoned in Abingdon.
All: Let them be wanton in Wantage.
Archdruid: Let them be boring in Goring.
All: Let them continue to be nonexistent, with a very dodgy overlap between the PCC and the powers of the local council, in Dibley.
Archdruid: For fallen - fallen is Didcot the Great!
All: And great was the rubble thereof.
Archdruid: Your place shall be the haunt of foxes and jackals.
All: Jackals? Don't you mean property developers?
Archdruid: Oh yeah. I always get those confused.
All: Then let us roll in ashes and cinders.
Archdruid: But only metaphorically. Ugh.
All: And regret that the view from the A34 ain't so interesting anymore.
Archdruid: Go in peace, under cleaner skies.
All: With perhaps a speck of coal dust in our eyes.
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How will we know we're getting close to Oxford now?
ReplyDeleteWhen we lived in Warrington (well, on a hill above Warrington to be precise) we had a view of Fiddler's Ferry Power station from our bedroom window. One day we looked out and there was one fewer cooling tower than the day before. It had collapsed spontaneously. Something to do with resonance of the wind blowing between the towers, so we were told.
ReplyDeleteWe always regretted not having looked out a few minutes earlier, when we would actually have seen it go.