Barking and Dagenham, borough of culture?

Via The Dagenham Post and Diamond Geezer’s ‘blog I discover that Barking and Dagenham are competing for the role of London Borough of Culture. Alas, I missed any mention of this before the launch event, which DG has covered as part of his exploration of the borough’s historic features, else I’d have taken a day …

Halifax

Is mostly closed on Sundays.  I’ve drunk a lot of Tea while waiting for the train back to London. 

Migrating site

Moving this website to a new server. Might mean I actually write stuff here more than a few times per year.  Expect some things to be broken for a while.