The first 58 seconds of Spaceman by Babylon Zoo

for a certain older male relative, my wife is "Mrs. E Hammond" on the envelope of Christmas cards, in the manner of Princess Michael of Kent

there's also a funny little bird
oh cool perhaps we can have a story arc focused on the funny bird, something nice and light?
sure thing, I've drawn up a series of strips describing his desperation as he searches hopelessly for his lost mother

speaking frankly: I don't know what a gilt is

I would go further and say "elegiac"

amusingly the exception is drafted so as to exclude only three councils in the whole of England from the need to move from the committee system to leader-cabinet

Peter always gets irrationally angered when he awakes during November as his body is still adjusting to the temporal act of treason known as "British Summer Time" - a pernicious misnomer given that it is imposed upon us by those who would gleefully welcome the return of the Brussels jackboot

rather than combating the Thing with a flamethrower, Kurt Russell engages it in debate over whether, from the perspective of ontological existentialism, it can (as an organism) demonstrate a true sense of "eigentlichkeit". The film did poorly at the box office

"The Thing 2: This Time It's Thingier"

He should wait for the results of the geophys!

The missing link is the need to create community consensus through the creation of significant incentives for existing freeholders, leaseholders, and renters

Heygate's a great example because it shows why this model of development petered out - we can and should do big "area renewal" with local ppl, and for them, not just "at" them. Notwithstanding NIMBYism

In the postwar era we understood sthg we've now forgotten - terraced houses were often built speculatively to poor standards; many are suboptimal as homes (poor insulation, tiny rooms, downstairs bathroom behind the kitchen etc). Retrofitting to modernise possible, but v expensive

Social landlords also own surprisingly large tracts of terraced houses too

It was surprisingly easy politically right up until the end of the 80s - the standard model for constructing social housing, in London and elsewhere

what's wrong with people! three houses on our street last weekend! you'll be fed up of it by 25/12 and end up taking them all down on Boxing Day!

so in that sense, making fake runways and building control towers out of bamboo... sort of worked?

the irony of it was that more recent (disputed) research suggests that some Melanesian locals were deliberately hamming it up for the anthropologists, who very much saw what they wanted to see. In part because the anthropologists and researchers brought with them... cargo

is it the case that the high street retail proposition relies increasingly on low-margin transactions - ie, making profitability overly reliant on sales volume? Feels that way with Poundland, and felt that way with Wilko (and brands like The Works, Savers, B&M's, Heron Foods)