A branch of the rather good Costa coffee shop chain where I often pop in for a quick espresso was closed this morning, with a notice in the window giving the reason: 're-image works'. What in tarnation can that phrase possibly mean?
Penned by the same team who gave us "closed for the foreseeable future" what, they mean dead? and "urgent repairs", AKA threat of court action on health risk grounds. Good luck to Costa, we could all do with a bit of re-image these days.
Sounds like me trying to define "revision" for my writing students. Not just fixing a word here or there but, TO SEE AGAIN, re-vision, and make big changes.
However, I imagine all you will see are a new set of chairs and tables and higher prices.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Penned by the same team who gave us "closed for the foreseeable future" what, they mean dead? and "urgent repairs", AKA threat of court action on health risk grounds. Good luck to Costa, we could all do with a bit of re-image these days.
ReplyDeleteSounds like me trying to define "revision" for my writing students. Not just fixing a word here or there but, TO SEE AGAIN, re-vision, and make big changes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I imagine all you will see are a new set of chairs and tables and higher prices.