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Had a dream last night that I went to a big company meeting for a large software crew I was working for – no idea where or what it was – and for some reason we'd all taken our desktop PCs along. For some reason I was late; as with most dreams, recollections are sketchy…
I've been wearing red Explorer socks (Holeproof Explorer – the 4WD of socks) since I was about 15. Not 100% sure why, but I suspect it's cos Explorer socks are nice & thick, and they're good for preventing blisters and foot-rubbiness, and red just cos I like red. However my s(t)ocks have become somewhat depleted…
Seldom do I get the opportunity to genuinely do nothing, and that's exactly what I did on the weekend – the problem being of course that it's a difficult thing to blog about, seeing as how my blog is traditionally a list of stuff that I've been doing. How best to illustrate NOT doing anything?…
…a false beard ranking problem – I've been included in the vote for the June Beard Of The Month on Travelbeard.com, however at the minute it's not looking promising. …a coffee-making stalker – I go to Marks & Spencer for a coffee every day, and having established myself as a regular customer, the girls who…
Back from Scotland now. Wow, what a trip. Expensive – not as bad as it could have been, but I did manage to pick up 6 new bottles of whisky. Now to find room on The Shelf for them. Anyone wanna come over & help me drain a couple? 2 immediate cool points from the…
The idea of being on holiday is to get away from spending all your time online, but check THIS out – we're in Dufftown at the moment (Speyside's whisky capital, and the home of -among other things – The Glenlivet), and tonight we went to a restaurant where I had… Wait for it… WILD BOAR!!!…
Since Sunday we've visited Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Bruichladdich and Bowmore distilleries, as well as going to a whisky nosing competition & scottish dance, and sampled about 20ish whiskies each. The credit card has taken a battering, however now we've left Islay things should ease off. I HOPE things ease off. Currently we're sitting in a…
…but today as our ferry rounded the south coast of Islay and we nonchelantly passed the Ardbeg distillery, then Lagavulin, then Laphroaig, before mooring at Port Ellen. I think this whisky tour is going to be fun.
Normally I'd avoid a new version of Windows like the bubonic plague (I think it took at least until the end of 2002 for me to move over to XP), however in light of the fact that my desktop PC melted down and was for all intents & purposes unrecoverable without a reinstall, and also…
Once again, The Barbican comes up with the goods. It took a little convincing and good faith on their part, but I dragged Hannah, Paul and new UK arrival Kat along to see one of the world's most extraordinary and talented vocalists, Bobby McFerrin, and the results all round were an enthusiastic twelve thumbs up…