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“We are temporary occupants. No matter how we seek to impress ourselves on place, place smiles knowingly: I am the one who will still be here when you are not. We are possessed by the homes we live in. We think we possess them, but they possess us.”
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“… if Cornwall, or Westmorland, secedes, where next? Devon is already making noises about its Celtic roots, its flag and its Stannary parliament. Maybe we should be done with it all, and go back to Mercia, Wessex, Northumberland and East Anglia.”
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“… while it’s all well and good for these massive acts with established fanbases to go around throwing their music to the wind, the true talent (that the likes of Eno ought to be supporting) remains unfunded.”
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“I remember that we would get a phone call and they would say I want to join my nearest RAR group, and we would say where do you live, and they would say Lowestoft, so we’d say: you are now the Lowestoft RAR group.”
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“Is it just me, or is this totally surreal? Apparently, as part of the UK’s top secret nuclear war survival strategy, 160 steam (and a few diesel) engines were kept in working order in an underground depot up until 1982…”
