Things we learnt in a large town near Chelmsford this weekend include ...
1. The cup is supposed to be off centre, it's the way the saucer is made.
2. The green plastic token you are given at Waitrose checkouts is to vote which charity gets something or other.

3. There are dealers who specialise in Nissan Figaros.
4. Take a torch with you if you want to see anything at the Museum of Childhood.
5. Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles was snapping about the same time as John Self but unlike John Self knew you needed to get closer.

Saturday morning we were watching from our chum's bathroom window an urban fox making its way through the back gardens in a large town near

Chelmsford.  In next door's garden from a standing start and in one fluid movement it leapt well over four feet, sliding under a wooden lattice to land with the sinuous ease and grace of a cat on top of the dividing wall.  Mmm, we thought, more cat than dog in this area ...

What you may not know about urban life is that at some petrol stations, particularly late at night, you have to pay first.  If like us you've managed to park the car so you can't see style="background-color: #FFF2F2"display it gets really interesting.

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1975  King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew

Remembering how confused film crews can be about what they're actually working on we were told this lot outside a pie and mash shop in a large

town near Chelmsford yesterday were making an ITV drama about a modern day Jack the Ripper called Whitechapel.  The general feeling around the Hackney pie and mash shop was why don't they go and make it in Whitechapel then instead of blocking our pavements.

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near Chelmsford 2008

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