Haywards Heath, actually....

I do not believe it!

I may be a sometime resident of Brighton - otherwise known as "the graveyard of ambition", a title apparently shared with Swansea - and I may admit to still having a friend or two in locations such as Hove, Lewes, Seaford, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill...but....even so, this is a bit special.

Take a look at http://www.thisishaywardsheath.com/ (for those who don't live in Sussex, East or West: the 'This Is.....' is a banner for many towns is owned by a UK newspaper publisher and used by the terrifying Brighton Argus to propagate local misinformation, so there's a certain ironic thread here - this is not one of their sites).

As soon as you get to the home page, you are greeted by: "The town of tomorrow where everyone thinks it's yesterday". Wild. "We recommend non-English speaking or illiterate guests take the pictorial tour". "We've had literally tens of e-mails asking when we are going to update the site." Ha. If only others believed in so much truth-telling. The Celebrity Connections page is a wonder to behold. Check out the HEATHcam, the pay-and-display car parks and all the rest. As the site sez, "the most important thing to remember about Haywards Heath is that you won't be able to see and do it all in one day." Quite.

Thanks to Peter Mason at SCIP for this one.