Last week the Lord Mayor of Exeter processed in fancy dress into Northernhay Gardens together with the Sword of State and the Cap of Maintenance and about fifty followers, who were looking somewhat underdone and harrassed, to dedicate a tree to the victims of the Covid Pandemic.
There is necessarily a memorial tablet of marble set in stone and this is what is written upon it:
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED IN MEMORY OF EVERYONE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, MARCH 23rd 2021.
One wonders if any other public memorial in England has been inscribed in 'Pidgin' or 'Woke' or whatever this new language is to be called. Maybe it is a first for the City of Exeter. This would be a sad distinction and particularly so because it is so unnecessary: ALL WHO DIED would have been best and the city could have saved itself the expense of fifteen letters.
In Exeter those who died were mostly of my generation and spoke the Queen's English.
Let us hope the next time His Worshipful turns up it will be to unblock the passage beween Northernhay and Rougemont.
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