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When football heritage crashes into dodgy local politics, fans can learn a lesson or two from the Valley Party and the Seagulls Party.

Won't we be completely absorbed by the FA Cup by the time the end of the season comes round?

I love all this fantasizing along the lines of "What if ...?" At least we can hope for a better record than Chelsea have achieved. They've lost every match they've played this year and still imagine that they might win the Premier League title.

The squirrel that used to run up the side of the pitch at Withdean. Or am I confusing this with Nathan Jones?

This was just a one-off occurrence, but it's a shame that this sort of thing doesn't happen more frequently. Lady B and I were at Bristol City and the Albion won a corner. Kerry Mayo came across to take it. He looked up and saw Lady B in the crowd, waved and shouted out "Hi, Roz, how are you...

A decent White Christmas will put an end to this nonsense.

Does anyone remember the Alliance in Edward Street? A cider house, run by a retired lady of the night, where you could get legless and still have change from five shillings.

A question for HB&B ... You make much of the fact that your role as a part-time journalist gave you the opportunity to speak regularly with Gus Poyet. Have you ever spoken with Caroline Lucas or Peter Kyle?

There's certainly more than one of the people on your list who have been in contact with Paul Barber and the Rail Minister about SASTA's impact on Albion fans. I'll give you a clue, HB&B ... the other one has connections with Portslade.

Is that the same Caroline Lucas who invited Albion in the Community to a reception at the House of Commons back in 2012? Or is it the Caroline Lucas who wrote to the Rail Minister in November, complaining about the impact on Albion fans of SASTA's failure to reach a settlement with its workforce?

The Albion, of course, are simply content not to bother when we play Newcastle (apart from in the Cup, obviously). The consequences are plain to see ... we get to be two points clear of them, with a game in hand. If only we could be arsed to play better when we meet them in the League.

Are you sure? You might have just seen a shop sign in the main street. One of the amusing things about travelling by train in Italy is overhearing conversations between tourists who don't have any knowledge of the language ... "Where are we?" "It's a place called Uscita".

There are TWO Albrightons in Shropshire. One is near Shrewsbury and the other is near Wolverhampton. I've already mentioned one village that was the birthplace of an ancestor of mine. My great great great great grandfather was born in Albrighton by Wolverhampton.

Everyone's going for HM the Q or Phil the Greek. Are we overlooking Camilla's bloke? There's only so much organic groceries that can be good for a chap.

My great great great great great grandmother was born in a place called Peep I See Thee (which has since changed its name to Peepy). Where's this?

California is in Birmingham. The place that isn't an important US city is not far from Ashington, whether we are talking about West Sussex or the north east of England.

I know for sure that Paul will take heart from knowing that very many Albion fans will be wishing him well. I'm just one of them.

Nah. The mods credit most NSC users with the ability to work out who is a "nasty little shit" or "not funny anymore". Do we really need to spell it out?

Are you going to cash in and sell? If not, then the only value your investments have is the hope that you have that the future will be OK.

That is, indeed, the point. Fog will ALWAYS defeat efforts to see through it.