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Gears & Louthing In the East of England
Can I point to the blogger formely know as "EX-CovBlogger" who's back in saddle in several ways and is trying to cycle round the North Sea amongst other things. KF takes excellent pictures and knows where the best cafes are so for a less urban take on things have look here at On Me Bike.

Local Girl done good

Just Found this Blog, Local Girl, which is really good particularly as I was just talking about comics. It's an entirely drawn diary of a Local lass (Hackney) it's got a lovely style and it isn't too knowingly cute check it out.

Oh and hurah! Stuart Maconie back at a proper time of Sat pm.

Oh and this is cool too:

I think it's a postmodern mind loop invented by a demented French Semiotics lecturer it's a blog of the background paintings of Disney cartoons genius !

I'm sure you could write screeds on how they examine the "dead space in our culture" but I prefer to say blimey aren't they great paintings , check out pluto's christmas tree (didn't they do a Peel session once)