Once again I’m getting a bit overwhelmed by the election, so I thought I’s showcase another Ipswich blog with its focus on the Old Stoke area of Bridge, formerly Ipswich.

I’ve got another Tory leaflet hitting the streets, and I checked through it more than twice – making a number of changes.  I finally signed it off and got it approved to go to the printers.

So I copy some of this on to my blog.  Then to my horror I saw a misspelling.  And not just any misspelling, but a misspelling of Wherstead Road – the largest road in the ward.  And not just in the text but in a big headlines, and in capitals.

Luckily a piece of impromptu town planning (or I should say another attempt) was avoided when it turns out that the editor of the leaflet had taken a short break.

For my next trick I’ll misspell Ipswich or Suffolk on the front page.

The recent sad announcement of job losses at Ransomes means that one of Bridge’s formerly major employers is a good time to revisit the history of the firm.  Formerly Ipswich (which chided me, quite rightly, for my uncanny ability to get the wrong road names) has an interesting take on Ransomes history.  He quite rightly points out that the first beneficiary of big government is big business.