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"Luxury is the enemy of observation"

Travel writer Paul Theroux - on Radio 4's Excess Baggage.

In love with piles of rice

If I found a warehouse full of piles of rice representing different statistics on an a-to-zedding trip I'd be very happy. But I didn't find it haphazardly, we went to visit Of All the People in All the World because it was on the programme at Artsfest - Birmingham's free arts festival.

Inside the warehouse there are 6.7billion grains of rice. I won't give too much away because I hope you'll go and visit. It was funny, moving, poignant and shocking. I'm dying to go back and look round again before the exhibition ends. It's open until 5th October - more details here and some behind the scenes stuff here.

A to Zedding for cyclists...

This looks brilliant. Very much in the spirit of zedding.

The flyer for it even tells you to 'bring an A - Z map'. Music to my ears.

Shame I'm doing something not quite so subversive that day, otherwise I would be there with bike and map!