whitebait

Terror is a vegetable

... and it stalks the streets of UK cities at Christmas.

Exterminate the brutes.

The faces and necks of urban man

Whitebait is now based in Penarth for a week or two, a seaside town close enough to Cardiff. And what a change in urban habitat for your average metrosexual. In Bristol he made the discovery of the year in the form of how to elegantly tie up a scarf. Not sure if this is standard everywhere (and it somehow slipped under the radar of Whitebait's metrosexual education), but Bristolians have a fantastic way of wearing their scarves. The particular satorial skill referred to involves folding the scarf in half before putting it around the neck so that you can pull one end through the loop therby forming a rather neat and dandy knot arrangement that also keeps the biting winter wind out. Cardiff men would not, on first appearances, be interested in such techniques for they are a formidable looking bunch. Every second one of the Whitebait sees on the street seems to have a recent scar on their face or dried blood on their chin. Tres tough. And absolutely no dyed blonde hair to be seen. Still they speak in beautiful accents and are generally very friendly once you actually start talking to them.