Cheeta

London - it's a very big place Mr Shaderack. A very big place indeed.

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December 16th 2008
Next spot quiz - name the band and album quoted in the title. Well done to Gabs Browning for correctly identifying that Geoff Woad's 20lb head was a reference to 'Withnail and I'. Your prize - such as it is - coffee with the author, and a signed first edition of the next post, tomorrow in Reading. Anyhow. London. Very strange to come back here after so long. By the time I woke up Dee and Hos ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more