Last night I was too busy being all cool and in London to do the blog, ruining my hot streak of 5 successive days where I've summoned up the energy to post something. I did learn, however, that there are 24 places called Barton in the UK, so it wasn't an altogether wasted evening. Our friend comes from one such Barton, which is, I dunno, up North somewhere, and she assures us that it is the best one. I learnt the other day that my home town of Devizes, Wiltshire has a namesake in Kansas. Devizes is latin for 'the gates', as the town once had a gate at each entrance, to stop the millions of people just desperate to visit it. Barton means, um, town with a bar in it, I imagine.
And so on to today, and an interesting fact relating to the bizarre story of canoe-based magic act John and Anne Darwin, who managed to pull off a disappearance trick that lasted a good five years. The cover of the Mirror late this year which featured the couple, who at that stage were not under suspicion following John Darwin's bizarre reappearance, grinning in the sales office of a Panama condo block, was perhaps the finest image printed all year. It was the start of the monumental collapse of a laughable, yet surprisingly successful, attempt by the couple to fake someone's death - a process known as pseudocide. That's not what they've been banged up for - no, that would be embezzlement and deception on a mind-boggling scale. Good luck to 'em.
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