Alright, alright, I’ll get to that bit in a minute, you dirty-minded perverts. First, you’ve got to read my ever-so-exciting musings about the Isle of Sheppey, which sort of sets the scene for the stuff you really want to read about anyway. So, the Isle of Sheppey. It’s a bit, well, crap, isn't it? I realise this will open up the blog and therefore me to a deluge of abuse from anyone from Sheppey who happens across this site, but that’s pretty unlikely to happen, so it’s a ri

When I first visited the Isle of Portland, I remember seeing signs saying ‘Keep Portland Weird’. I liked that. Weird is good. But ‘Keep Portland Weird’ was actually co-opted by the locals, as the phrase originated in that other Portland, the one in Oregon, USA (it’s a great place, I’ve been, definitely one of the best cities in the USA, although what constitutes weird in the USA these days is almost impossible to define, given the whole country is so fucked up). This Portland