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The urban75 walk club’s jaunt to Dorset was one of the best I’ve been on for a long time.

Despite weather forecasters predicting a weekend of showers, ne’er a drop fell on our heads and we were treated to some fabulous Springtime sunshine.

The trip had everything:

countryside, seaside, coastal walks, ice cream, castles, donkeys, new born lambs, dinosaur trails, goats, steam trains, celebrities, cliff top strolls, great globes, lighthouses, abandoned villages, ducks, the fiercest gale force wind I’ve ever encountered, delightful bays and some unbelievably fine cider – and the company of a fine bunch of urbanites.

Here’s a some photos:

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A march from Trafalgar Square leading to a rally outside Scotland Yard to ‘remember Ian Tomlinson, demand no more deaths in police custody and defend civil liberties and the freedom to protest.’

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Just got chance to post up some pics from last week’s Offline bash at the Dogstar with Josie Long, Voodoo Trombone Quartet, Atomic Suplex, Anchorsong and Vic Lambrusco’s Cabaret Hour – plus Craft Corner.

It’s great to see Offline back in its old home and pulling good crowds, but it was so hectic I didn’t get chance to take many pics.

Here’s a few from the night:

More: http://www.urban75.org/offline/offline59_dogstar.html

More photos and feature here: Westminster Day of Dance 2009
and here: Westminster Day of Dance 2009 (part 2).

Morris troupes from all over the country mobbed Trafalgar Square for a mass Morris-off this afternoon – and it was a hoot!
Anyone else go along to watch a bit of bell-clanging, hanky-waving, stick bashing fun?

More pics soon!

Fuck, they were good tonight – and the crowd were up for it too!

In a remarkable run of ultra-crapness, my beloved Cardiff City FC – who recently looked destined for a guaranteed play-off place (if not automatic promotion) – conspired to turn into a wobbly bag’o'cack, collecting just one measly point from a possible 12.

Today, all they had to do was draw to Sheffield Wednesday – a team languishing miles below us in the league, but even that proved too much, so it’s another season in the Championship for us (or the ‘Second Division’ as it should rightfully be called).

Naturally, I’m horribly disappointed by this rubbish end to our season, but my reaction seems a little more restrained that I anticipated.

A few years ago, this would have been my response:

But now – perhaps because I’m older or perhaps because I’m not sure if the corporate-powered, prawn sandwich-propelled Premiership is to my tastes – I feel a lot more like this:

How do you cope with defeat? Check out the What kind of fan are you? section, or drop me a line…

Nice to see this on the Guardian’s website on Friday. The article links to an excellent criticism of conspiracy nutbobbins, written by Donna Ferentes.

If you want to see examples of the weird and wonderful things that ‘conspiraloons’ come up with, check out our archive forum, Compendium Of Kerrrr-azy Conspiracies – there’s no shortage of nutjobbery to be found!

It’s been a long weekend of partying with four great acts playing the Offline Albert gigs.

On Friday we had superb Kitchener and our favourite hip-hop act – Lady Lykez. She’s lively, funny and talented and definitely one to watch.

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On Saturday, we put on the hilarious Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer who mixed up chappage with hip hop, followed by John Peel faves I, Ludicrous.

There’s not so many photos for this night as I’d suffered some hideous flu-like ailment overnight. It was so bad I had to run off during the soundcheck for a Mr Creosote-style chunder (without the need for a wafer thin mint). Eeeugh.

Happily, the excellent entertainment took my mind off things before I headed home early to bed.

More pics here