Historiography

Note. Buying a fine bottle of single malt Scotch Whisky does not mean you should then drink most of the whisky that very weekend. Some would say this is obvious.

In the news this week - the publication of "The List" of BNP members - and the Metro's curious pro-BNP headline! For a moment I spotted a 79 on the Brighton list and thought it was our old house - but no, it's a different 79. If I came from a smaller town I might have more chance of spotting people I know on the list. Not that that's what I'm hoping for.

Less positive news is the 'revelation' that 1 gram of cocaine = 4 square metres of rainforest. Sadly the hope that coke fiends are going to be selfless and cut down for the sake of the environment might be a bit optimistic. On the other hand, it's definately the most compelling argument against most drugs I can think of - and something Jacob's been saying for years. Free range eggs, fair trade coffee, guns, land mines, pesticides, drugs... the English dream!

In other news, in Malaysia a tapir fell into a storm drain and had to be rescued. I've got into the habit of searching for "tapir" on newsnow.co.uk every now and again to get the latest tapir updates - which aren't as frequent as I would like.

Little Lucy freak-out came back from the Isle of Wight for the weekend. We drank champagne and Cherry-B and watched videos of 1997 Party Political Broadcasts and Tony and Gordon and Michael Portillo. We wanted to see footage of Michael Heseltine grabbing the mace and Peter Mandelson claiming to have "inner steel" but there just isn't that much stuff out there. Might have to go raid the news archives at some point.

Me and Amy have been putting on a night called Glue Gun '91 for the last couple of months - it's a half poetry half papier mache half celebrity special guest evening... sharks and seances and jam and hundreds and thousands everywhere. If you like that sort of thing.

Moonshine

It's like when you haven't run out of space in a notebook, but it feels like time to make a new start. Perhaps the blank pages are intersperced with un-chronological notes, or there's far too much valuable clutter in there to carry it around with you in a reasonable fashion. In this case, things have slid for quite a while. There's nothing like a fresh start.