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And we’ve gone from the in-your-face noise of Pride to the quieter pleasures of the West Sussex downs on a sunny afternoon.

We are back (almost) online after our house move, and are now based in sunny Brighton. So the blog has a new name, not least because I was getting a bit tired of the old one. It also has a new URL (islingwordstreet.com), though lewes.typepad.com will still

Oh. My. God. Civ IV is out. I didn’t even know it was close. Civ I and Civ II took SO much of my university and post-grad life. I have a short window until the Mac release comes out, but then… Thanks to MeFi for the post title.

Orwell on Tolstoy’s hostility to Shakespeare: “[As a puritan, Tolstoy] could have no patience with a chaotic, detailed, discursive writer like Shakespeare. His reaction is that of an irritable old man who is being pestered by a noisy child. “Why do you keep jumping up and down like that?

Ooh, Doug Masson’s wife is in labour – good luck!

On a cash machine outside Tunbridge Wells station: Alliance & Leicester customers will not be charged to use this cash machine. Other users will be charged a convenience fee. CONVENIENCE FEE! ARGH! Alliance and Leicester – taking your hard-earned money, for your convenience.

This blog was briefly called Metro-Land, but has now reverted to its former name, the Lewes Chronicle. (www.metro-land.org still works, as well as lewes.typepad.org) It was renamed Metro-Land when my wife got a job in that part of the world, and we planned to move to

This blog has changed its name because my (marvellous and talented) wife has secured herself a new job, and we now have to move pronto to Amersham, in the Chiltern Hills, way out on the end of the Metropolitan Line.

There is a small chance that this mighty organ will need to go into voluntary exile in Buckinghamshire, specifically Beaconsfield, for a year or two. Were that the case, I’d at least be sure that my adrenalin levels would be kept high. The current news headlines on the site