Princes Risborough, if you find yourself there just keep driving

Living in Princes Risborough

Take a classic small English market town in the London commuter belt. Bolt an enormous post-war pre-fab council estate onto the side and fill with ****. That’s Princes Risborough. This estate is so incredibly downmarket they actually had Sky television in the eighties before the dishes came out – it got pumped in by wire […]

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Owlsmoor, Sandhurst: enter at your peril!

Living in Owlsmoor, Sandhurst

I can’t believe no-one has added Owlsmoor to the list of **** towns before. Having lived in Sandhurst my whole life, I believe it’s got to be one of the ********* places I’ve ever seen. The row of shops, which are often covered in graffiti, constantly have a group of ***** outside them, covered in […]

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Eastleigh, an armpit of a town

Living in Eastleigh, Hampshire

Ok, so Eastleigh is by no means the worst places in Britain (I’m thinking it’s possibly Paulsgrove, Portsmouth) but it is well worth a mention if only for the ‘**** per square mile ratio’; Beastleigh is comparatively small to that of neighbouring Southampton, but it stands brimming proudly with all that is ****, clutching to […]

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Deal, a pleasant Kent seaside resort on the face of it, but dig deeper…

Living in Deal, Kent

What can you say about Deal? On the face of it, a pleasant Kent seaside resort with a charming “old town” clustered around the lovely Middle Street area. But dig deeper and you will find that these beautiful old houses are connected by a series of 18th century tunnels which helped smugglers to transport their […]

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