Google game

Ever needed to avoid working on a Monday morning but still need to look busy as perfected by cooncil workmen, polismen and comic singers the world over?

Our suggestion is to play the 'type Coldstream into Google' game.

Here are ten early results;

1. Booze
Just when you think Google has hit on a potential future sponsor, you realise ra-internet is a world wide thingy and not just a local thingy. http://www.coldstreambrewery.com.au/ Anyone spot the flaw in this potential new sponsor? Good tour though.

2. More booze
The Coldstream pub in Birmingham (England not Australia, but further away culturally) http://www.birminghamcamra.org.uk/Articles/Coldstream.htm

3. Dull history
A worthy-but-dull history of the town http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10090039&c_id=10107260 (mind it's probably the best history we're going to get).

4. Coldstream Ramblers
Like the French Foreign Legion, only harder http://www.lothian-borders-ramblers.org.uk/Coldstream.htm

5. Tourist stuff
Good piece here, placing us in the Jedburgh area, which is better than being in the Duns area http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/coldstream/coldstream/index.html

6. A good walk spoiled
A website with no shame. The Hirsel Golf Club 'the Augusta of the Borders', what!
http://www.hirselgc.co.uk/

7. Weather
For farmers: Pishing doon, freezing cald, f*ckn windy, ower hot, no hot enough, rain, no enough rain, no the right kind o' rain, it's all here...http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/coldstream_forecast_weather.html

8. Avoiding mad muslims
Unless your Gran is the Queen this used to be the best way to be in the army, wear outlandish uniforms, but stay at home guarding Buckingham Palace and so avoid having to dodge the bullets fired at you by mad muslims. (Also known as 'working your ticket' or 'scarce as a Guardsman's **** east of Sueze'). However, in these times of equality for all and thanks to Tony Blair for fighting wars everywhere and anywhere this is no longer the case and our brave boys happily sweat it out in Iraq while polishing their trumpets. http://www.army.mod.uk/coldstreamguardsband/

9. Dressing up
Did you like dressing up and playing sodjers doon the woods? Maybe you would still like to! Maybe you like dressing up and playing with sodjers. These guys do both and seem quite happy about it. Who are we to argue: http://www.civilwardrobe.demon.co.uk/home.htm

10. Yet more booze
These Ozzies like their falling-doon water http://wineanorak.com/barossa/Yarra_Valley_part7_coldstreamhills.htm

So, that's ten sites, three of them about booze, one about history, one about golf, and one about dressing up, which sounds like an average Saturday night out in Coldstream.