What is it with Snake Pass? We had some fun there on a tour a few years back getting from Sheffield to Liverpool... There must be an easier way!

Anyway, I think that serves as a more than adequate introduction to the work of our man Shuttleworth. I could well imagine him as the entertainer in the imaginary pub in our re-Imagined Village, though already I'm thinking canals rather than gently flowing rivers. This doesn't preclude the sort of bucolic picturesque idealism WAV yearns for however - for example, not far from Fleetwood, we have the re-Imagined Village that is Guy's Thatched Hamlet which I'm sure would tick all the right boxes (gliding mute swans and all) and still be the ideal venue for Mr Shuttleworth! Take the Virual Tour...

Meanwhile, if I was in charge of booking the entertainment maybe I'd go for something a little more uniquely home-grown with respect of Quintessential Englishness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-td43zcQg

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Otherwise, something English, Quintessential, and Very Special Indeed. We will, I fear, never see his like again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm2wGbpu4A