AREN’T we a funny lot?

We moan when it’s cold, then on Saturday, when I attended a wedding, held in a lovely little village called Nant Gwrtheyru, by the sea in Wales, ‘Oh it’s too hot’, was the cry.

The village was abandoned in the 1970s, following the closure of the quarries, where 2,000 men once worked and all the redundant cottages, offices, chapel and shops, constructed in its heyday, had fallen into rack and ruin.

Then, a registered charity was formed and between 2007 and 2010 building started, helped by a £5million grant and the result is this beautiful wedding, conference and holiday village, which really is a joy.

Later at the wedding breakfast I had to read the menu twice, because I couldn’t believe that the main course really was sausage and mash.

Talking later to the restaurant manageress, I asked her about this unusual choice and she said a bride had once asked for it, as it was her husband-to-be’s favourite dish.

It had proved a huge success, with all the plates going back to the kitchen clean, for the first time, so it’s been on the menu ever since — and very good it was, too.

Those towns, such as Nelson, which have won £100,000 to improve themselves, which will get help from shopping guru Mary Portas, are advised that they must have street markets and events and smarten their high streets.

Not exactly mind blowing stuff, is it?

Here in Blackburn, we might not get money, but we could take advice, so let’s do something.

Church Street could be the ideal place for a twice-weekly market — just think of the business it would bring in.

Or maybe, we could have a market on the soon-to-be abandoned bus station.

Just think, the people walking from the train station to the new bus station, which will be where the old market was, would have to pass through it and spend.

I think I will have to go and lie down for a little while, as all this common sense is just too much.

Hope to see and hear you at the town hall for the Jubilee Big Sing, which takes place on Saturday, 2 o‘clock.