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hello all, if you’re reading this and wondering where i’ve been for the past few days, i – like the rest of the united kingdom – am on vacation until wednesday; we’re celebrating having had the queen avoid being kicked off the throne for 50 years now, and it really is quite amusing when watching…

Edited extracts from my other blog, regarding the past three days. (Annotation – much of this was written on a palmpilot in cafes and behind trees; forgive me if the prose style is not so hot when i am out and about) tuesday morning Hello all here i sit in a cafe in Aberystwyth, relaxing…

i knew it was going to be bad when it took me three attempts to find the door into the hospital that was meant for use between the hours of 8pm and 8am; it was the door with the prominent sign on it, saying: please use other door. i walked up to a likely looking…

well, i am home. just. mostly intact. i left rhyader’s cafe as-per my last entry, and was accosted outside by two of the cafe’s staff whilst getting my kit on for the bike, asking me the nature of the bizzare device that i was playing with whilst eating my meal. don’t they have palmpilots in…

idea for next trip – run a #2 clipper over all hair so that need to carry heavy wet towels is reduced. Radical idea but may have merit as an improvement for serious tours…. I am now in a cafe in Rhyader having elevenses. When i left you i was off to go thru the…

Hello all here i sit in a cafe in aber, relaxing quite thoroughly. The 208 mile ride to get here passed pleasantly – lovely sunny weather, a couple of light showers, nothing bad. Given that i was meant to suffer horrible storms, i should have expected no less… Stopped with friends at http://www.harrysaberystwyth.com/ for dinner…

It’s Saturday, sunny, cool, bright, and if you are in the UK, what are you doing reading this message on a day like this? 😎

After the hurly-burly of the training last week, I must admit I am challenged with trying to get my head back into work. Life, currently, veers wildly between displaying the properties of being extremely non-linear, and/or latterly highly asynchronous. I am either bouncing between offices, or doing work by e-mail, spending more and more of…

I’ve just put down a £500 deposit on a new Skoda 1.9ltr TDI Hatchback. Should be delivered in mid-July. Cruise control, climate control, traction control, ABS, parking sensors, CD changer… enough topys to keep me happy. …and enough money left over to buy a BMW R1150GS

…my first-ever self-owned 4-wheeled vehicle. Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDI Hatchback Saloon, plus the usual toys and one or two extras. Should be delivered in mid July. Yay!

The plaintain was an interesting experiment; split lengthways, chopped into 2″ lengths, fried in butter and doused in a heavy vanilla-sugar caramel syrup. The taste is slightly nutty, slightly bananaish, and slightly floury – rather like a sweet potato. I think I need to cook the plaintain more comprehensively, so it’s a little softer, but…

Well, let’s see if this works. I got out of work about 6:45pm; this is astonishing. It’s surprisingly rare that I get out of the office before 8pm nowadays. Not sure why this is so, probably the preponderance of talking to Americans and really late-night Europeans on SWAN IRC. Got home, grilled trout on goats-cheese-encrusted…