"Shimrod's urban hating, youth despising, art loathing, little england folk myna bird is very much the rule round the class of 54."

For the record, 'glueman', you paranoid heretic hunter, you! I live in a big city and I love it - although I despise its city council and I fear for its future as it inexorably becomes indistinguishable from every other city. I don't despise youth - but I do fear for their future in this era when social mobility has become so restricted. And I really do believe that wishing 'to-be-in-a-band-like-every-other-band' is an unworthy aspiration. I don't loathe art - but I tend to despise the British Art Establishment and Art School culture - which I think is pretentious, elitist and obscurist. I am not, and never have been, a "little englander" (how dare you!).

But I do plead guilty to being a myna bird - my secret is out! Squawk! Sorry ... drat!