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I've just discovered that my old friend Seb has a blog. He's never been one to sit on the fence...'The motorist lobby are hypocrites' is the best post title I've seen this year and I couldn't agree more with the sentiments he expresses about the hypocrisy of MacKenzie et al.

Be warned, though: he's a Liverpool fan.

Quack, croak, glug, and whatever noise a water boatman makes Pt. II

Further to last month's note about an imminent proliferation of ponds, Teesside has got in on the act by creating a new waterfowl reserve at Saltholme, between Hartlepool and Billingham. There are already a few reserves around there, notably at Seal Sands, where we once spent a day on a school trip, learning absolutely nothing but having a fantastic time chucking sand at each other and trying to make the teacher cry. The article is right, though: there's definitely something East Anglian (read: Sebaldian) about that stretch of coastline, although I dare say that you can still go walking there without coming upon a method-writing UEA creative writing student at every turn in the path. Or Will Self.

Some things turn out well in the end...

The man responsible for the song with the greatest pop-sax break in the world ever, although - controversially - not responsible for the sax break itself, turns up after having been missing for a worrying amount of time.



Were I ever to write a novel intending to capture the essence of the British 1970s, that video probably contains all the research material I should need...

Quack, croak, glug, and whatever noise a water boatman makes

This is good news, I think:

Number of ponds in Britain to be doubled to pre-Industrial levels.

Well, I wanted to blog one more news story today, and it was either this or Jonathon Jones proclaiming the death of the YBAs. See how grown up I am - I haven't even linked to that article. Anyway, ponds are great. There should be more of them.

'It's not the type of people or group you want your pub to be associated with'

Trowse publican bans BNP meeting in his pub after they book a function room under a group alias.

This might be a good point to refer you all back to Nick Griffin's confident assertion that the only types in the region who find the BNP offensive are 'a bunch of silly students and elderly University of East Anglia lecturers who do not represent Norfolk people', pace this post.

Andrew Coleman now vies with Chesley Sollenberger for my 'man of the week' award.