"Sealand has never embraced tourism or outsiders, enhancing the mystique. So when I learnt they were accepting applications for tourist visas, I was amazed. As co-author of Lonely Planet’s recent guide to homemade nations, this, for me, was the grail: a chance to visit the world’s most notorious micronation."

"The driver of a sewage tanker which collided with a train in Suffolk has been jailed for 15 months."

A video about Sizewell, Suffolk's nuclear power station. Nice pictures and a nicely poetic narrative from Laura Barton.

"Largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe; Site of secret Cold War military testing; Poignant symbol of 20th-century warfare" Nearest train is Woodbridge; only open for some of the year.

" 'Where's Zeb Soanes?' And I said, “That's me.' And she said, 'No it's not.' “I said, 'I'm sorry?' And she said, 'You have a beard.' And I said, 'I'm sorry?' And she said, 'In my head you have a beard.'" He doesn't have a beard in my head, but I am surprised at how young he is.

candace does a far better job of documenting my life visually than I do these days; these are from our boxing day head-clearing morning walk. The one of the vintage car going over the bridge is a particular highlight.