Yare

I know this is something that most people will just tut and raise their eyebrows over. I also know it’s really dim of me to have not realised it before now. But anyway.

Until today, and reading this story, it’d never clicked with me that Great Yarmouth is the end of the river Yare.

It should’ve done – it’s a logical progression with *most* seaside places called “[x]mouth”, including

• Plymouth at the end of the river Plym (but we’ll ignore Portsmouth, I don’t think that counts)
• Tynemouth on the end of the Tyne
• Grangemouth being the end of the Grange Burn (and started as Grangeburnmouth, but that is – pardon the pun – quite a mouthful)

Still, for whatever reason, it hadn’t occurred.

And yes, I feel like a twat for not realising it, but such is life.