After all: A project that tried to stand a town on its head

DING-DONG! Time for our traditional Yuletide techno tale! In the run-up to Christmas, even the most ‘correct’, pedantic and nerdish of us become dreamers, and those who do not, like to hear stories about other people's dreams. That was probably why my last year's real-life tale about Manea Colony — a peculiar Utopian community in 19th-century Cambridgeshire — triggered considerable reader response.