Rev "Dick" Coles

[Mr Gus]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/j ... ant-review

Annoyance rippled over me when I read the above article, ..it drew me in as it was seafood, & wasn't really a restaurant review, more a well known stop off eateries for damned good sea food where it should be, ..I have memories of the journey up in anything from a mini, an old daimler,l datsun cherry, to a Bedford rascal romahome doing the trip with various stop offs at places of renown, the Italian ice creamery, the picnic places to stretch legs & cook up some bacon & brew tea over a small Billy can fire having stopped off at a relatives butcher shop to say a brief hello, the lone hut chippies (again had to be the best to survive in places that relied on driving out to, poolewe incidentally)

The review ended with a stupid out of date comment though, it mentioned less wildlife in recent years (not decades) & loss of habitat, & then the bombshell showing a lack of nous nor care to research printed piousness...

"The food is great and good value – lunch for five with wine and pudding came to £126.50 – but what makes it so special, and so popular, is the setting. Many are worried that efforts to revive the ailing economy of the peninsula, through forestry and sustainables, will affect the loveliness of this unique place. A local farmer told me you don’t see as much bird life as you used to thanks to loss of habitat, and who knows what the impact will be of giant wind turbines on the hills above? The community is itself divided, trying to balance economic need with protection for a fragile environment. Tourism provides another answer, or a supplementary answer"

Seems the 15 year old rspb turbine scaremongering fatuous -ollocks in the media still lives & breathes through the mouthes of the glib !?
(Maybe reverend Dick could tackle bird strikes on sky reflecting windows in the city/ any built up area on his next city restaurant foray in an equally vague manner)


Considering he is involved in the BBC & papers, you'd have thought this Dick could have utilised the search engines of both media corps!
Wet eared fool.

[spread-tee]

A local farmer told me you don’t see as much bird life as you used to thanks to loss of habitat, and who knows what the impact will be of giant wind turbines on the hills above?

I read that as being the farmers comment about the wildlife and turbines, not the reporter to be fair.

Desp

[Mr Gus]

We are a decade+ down the road of mass implementation of wt's ..we know the trumpian claims (& that of the rspb) of 1000's of bird deaths per wind farm is ollocks-ology, so why give it air & print space to resurface though!?
He didnt write it as a direct quote, just a comma, so it could have come from either rev Coles or the farmer, ..either way.