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A year of streets update

Well, well, well, I hadn't really imagined this day coming so soon:

The A year of streets project is complete.

Woo hoo. Every now and then, I'd get an email from somebody - one of you, in fact - telling me of a street here or there, then, last week, a chap called Paul sent about fifty of them, which more or less got the project to the halfway point. Spurred on by this, my pal Jacqueline and I sat down at her kitchen table, laptops sucking down an unprotected Wi-Fi connection in the neighbourhood, and Google Maps being constantly typed into and refreshed, searching for variations of each date in different languages. It took a while. And this morning, I finished it off. You'd think I'd be over the moon, but - damn my head - now I'm wondering what other pointless obsession I can develop.

So, yes, I just wanted to say a great big thank you to everyone who helped out. Thank you. And thank you to Mexico for having so many streets named after dates.

Sparrow

Here's a little true story. It happened last Monday in Lincoln. It's called Sparrow. I'm not proud of myself.

And while we're on the topic of birds, I saw Jesse Birdsall walking along Upper Street in London yesterday. Marcus Tandy! I quite liked Eldorado. Despite its shaky beginnings, it shaped up to be a fairly decent soap opera, I think, and there was a 7.00-7.30pm shaped hole in my life when it ended. Anyway, he had a cheeky little smile on his face like he'd remembered something funny.

They do

My step-brother James married Maria on Saturday. Here's some photos.

The groom, his father, his son, and his best man

A jolly cameraman

The church is really close to Lincoln City's stadium. At around the same time as the wedding finished, the Imps drew 1-1 with local fishy rivals Grimsby Town. Had either team's fans kicked off, there'd probably have been more than confetti raining down on the happy couple

(l-r) Groom, photographer, bride

Too much energy plus a shiny floor equals:

"I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith

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Body of Christ

Should the Catholic Church ever run low on cash(!), I've thought of a way they could generate some extra income.

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Conventions

The other day I read that it was a hundred years since the Democratic Party's convention was in Denver. Which got me wondering where it had been held in other years. Then I checked where the Republicans had held their shindigs. Seems like Chicago is a popular town. Oh, I dunno why I waste time doing this stuff; it just gets in my head, then I have to do it.

Blue is Democratic, rusty orange for the other lot. Maybe I should've added labels for cities, but, I'm just gonna assume that you know which cities are where.