NORWICH - c/d s&d, etc.

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There are some fantastic pubs; the locals say there are 365 pubs and 52 churches,one for every dya/week of the year.

The Cathedral and Tombland and the Market are my favourite spots ; not sure about Castle Mall though.

In the 80's their music policy was 'play Chris de Bugh lady in red', so people can slow dance, then play the Cure 'love cats', indie and goth kids do shoe dance, then play the Cult 'Sanctuary', indie and goth kids do windmill dance, then play jive bunnygirls people do the twist and fall over their handbags. Different tribes of kids on the floor, off again, on the floor, off agin, every 3 minutes.

Also Hys Nite Spot in Tombland was a laugh; light up dance floor and you could pull US servicemen on leave from the air base and they would buy me and my 15 year old friends whisky/vodka and cokes every half hour until we were either sick, or we snogged them.

I know all of these places! The library wasn't there last time I was in Norwich though.

I miss the brisk air and the weird winter sunsets, the peace of the countryside. Perhaps I will just become a writer and move back there or soemthing.

Part of The Wicker Man was not shot in Norwich - there's no place for ritual culture with my people; we've never had that kind of community spirit.

The Norwich of today is a very different place to the one I grew up in, but only in that there are 5,000 shops for people to have to work in instead of 100. There really has been fuck all else to do there for a few years, which is why I left. It is a really nice place when you know all the really nice people there, as I used to. But it's a crap place to visit if you don't have any personal or nostalgic connections to it.

Word to the wise: Prince of Wales Road is where you kids will - guaranteed - get beaten up after closing time.

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Things have got a bit hairier round that way recently, yes. Much as I'm wary of quoting spurious stats, someone told me it was listed as having the seventh highest post-closing time violent crime type of business going on out of any street in the UK, which I can kind of believe.

I've never been shoulder-charged, though - that's the kind of shit goes down in Diss.

New issue of ZIGGURAT reports on the new UEA logo.

Here is the official statement describing it.

"We have retained the UEA initials but in a contemporary style that reflects the interdisciplinarity which underpins our approach to research and teaching and the spark of creativity characterising much of what is best about the University. [...] The logo also features the full name of the University as an integral part of its design to make sure that our core activity is immediately apparent to people seeing it at events in the UK and around the world".

-- Alan Preece, Director of Marketing and Communications

Also:

"The new identity follows initial work on internal and external perceptions of the University, including discussions with a number of alumni, in late 2006. This was aligned with consultation on the Corporate Plan 2008-2013 during 2007. A project was then undertaken to consider the way in which the corporate identity communicated core messages, values and aspirations. Alternative identities were considered and after testing options with key audiences in the UK and overseas a decision was taken to move to a new identity from February 2008."

It has taken me a while to type this out, so I hope all you alumni are reading it.

I am, thanks!

http://www.livcomawards.com/media-2007/results.htm

Missing those windy dark nights on the plains

On the plains!

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Oh, and the LCR. Looking as grim and grey as I remember...

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