# what's life like in endland what a question let's see we've got understatement we're tough on slogans and causes of slogans there are often strong prevailing south-westerly winds seventy eight percent of the days are overcast they are one nation under holotelevision high dreaming clouds can often be seen in the middle distance its population is infused with wistful melancholy yet this apparently relentlessly chipper idiosyncratic crowd is prone to mild eccentricity binge drinking and casual urban ultraviolets breakfast is served seven till nine but no later shopping catalogues of our non-refundable dreams are laminated as to catch falling tears of working class hyper-consumerist joy on-island as we like to put it there's lot of 'puttering around' general 'mucking about' and 'hanging on in quiet desperation in the same goldfish bowl year after year' our actual national anthem is 'zip dee doo dah' as performed by portisdread with special arrangement by researcher bill we often experience new quivering feelings in the upper spine upon merely envisioning black and white checkerboard tiling patterns in cold tall silent hallways of upper middle class houses with nice gardens and mystic conservatories there's the sense that such black white checkerboard tiling patterns are somehow acutely symbolic of puzzles labyrinths and an otherworldly irrealty waiting beneath the cobblestones of every mundane highstreet realty we often don't speak directly to other local community residents but via slow drifting social osmosis pick up all manner of feelings thoughts and emotions say that one is a potential serial media thriller one a retired professor working on a mystery / zx spectrum based poly dimensional travel device and one seems a member of existentially stranded woodland fairy folk disguised in human form other than that endlandian life too often miserable and shabby and most ordinary citizens desperately escape or at least try to through art second hand sci fi books and infinite up / left scrolling it is to these lost souls this lab rnd field entry is dedicated // republic of bob