Save Bor­ough Market

I don’t believe it. My fam­i­ly used to joke and call it the “Fred­er­ick­son curse,” that every­thing we devel­oped an addic­tion to got can­celled, dis­con­tin­ued, dropped, whether it was a tele­vi­sion show, a favorite per­fume or soft drink. But I’m sor­ry: Bor­ough Mar­ket?? I just got here!

Seri­ous­ly, John has sent me an email with a link to a “green” blog dis­cussing an absolute impos­si­b­li­ty: appar­ent­ly plan­ning per­mis­sion has been award­ed to some hor­rid rail­road group to run a new train track RIGHT THROUGH Bor­ough Mar­ket! This can’t hap­pen. Just my luck: the place has been run­ning since 1550 and I get here just in time to see a bag­gage car replace my favorite butch­er. We’ve all got to sign the peti­tion on this blog. One South­wark offi­cial put it just right: tak­ing away what mat­ters to the res­i­dents for the ben­e­fit of peo­ple who are, lit­er­al­ly, pass­ing through. I can’t bear it.

As if to thumb their noses at this pos­si­ble hor­ror (fund­ing has yet to be found, and maybe we can keep that from hap­pen­ing), there’s a new food­ie show about to start film­ing, every day, from the Mar­ket. I adore Claris­sa Dick­son-Wright, one of the pro­posed hosts, in par­tic­u­lar, ever since “Two Fat Ladies” aired, and per­haps a lit­tle star pow­er will help our cause. And hey: maybe “Kris­ten in Lon­don” helped “Save Rat­ty”, one nev­er knows. Blog power!