he-brides

I am now about to embark on my final week of unemployment. I am thinking it will be hard to go back to working, but never mind. I guess I'll get used to it. I'll work in MK for about a month before toodling of to Nepaland.

Prior to rejoining the tax-paying workforce im off to the outer he-brides to spot he-brides i suppose. the outer hebrides are off the west coast of scotland... and not somewhere tropicalexotic. I have bought an exceedingly spangly camera (canon eos 400d) with which to capture the beautiful scenary in the hebrides... which is quite exciting, and i'll post pictures on flickr if they turn out nice.

tomorrow i'm following in spearsy's footsteps and going to vinopolis for wino tasting in Londres. excellent.

so until i return from the hebrides, over and out out.

Grannie racing

Hils gave me some wind up grannies pushing zimmer frames. they are hilarious. currently the wind up grannies are on tour in devon. visiting my grannie, grandpa, and their friends. photos below. next stop for the grannies will be nepal, end of october.

1. Wind up grannies
2. Groo and me racing them
3. Gramps, Pansy and Maurice smiling with the wind up Grannies

Trains, planes and automobiles

this weekend has been fun... i have enjoyed many forms of transport...

been on a train, (fairly unexciting),

been in a small 2 seater plane - where i got to play with the controls like the throttle (go fast), the flaps (changes the wing shape?), the steering wheel (i am certain it is not called a steering wheel - but basically touching it seems to change the direstion of the plane - left, right, up, down - oh so confusing), the peddles (steers the plane on the runway) and the brakes (stops the plane on the runway). Given my love (?) of flying this was fairly scarey... especially when Anthonys flying instructor who was flying the plane suggested doing a very steep bank just so i could see that the plane wouldnt fall out of the sky when that happened... its true the plane didnt fall from the sky but I still felt slightly ill. I noticed that many people in Hertfordshire have swimming pools, which is probably very nice for them. on the matter of swimming pools I also went in a Lido at the weekend, but as a lido is a pool, i dont think swimming can count as a form of transportation.

the last form of transportation was the car. I have decided that motorways are annoying and really even if trains are delayed and over priced at least you can read a book... driving on the motorway (and indeed driving generally) seems to involve a degree of concentration that doesnt allow for reading books... hmm

has anyone been to the outer hebrides? we have booked a holiday there in a couple of weeks... excellent. more flying and driving... but no trains... unless there is some form of miniture scottish railway that i can play on... i'm considering investing in a mid-range digital SLR, anyone with any advise on that too???

im sure other things have been happening... but for now they elude me...

nothing much to report

I’ve been bad at blogging… and at emailing people too. I feel like I’m busy doing lots of things, its just they’re not really very exciting to report about… unless you count the letter from the doctor which says “… your stool test is free of any parasites…” which means I didn’t actually acquire any evil or otherwise bugs in the bodge.

Yesterday Mely left for South Africa as the first stop on her 10month round the world trip. We somehow managed to pack her things into one rucksack, I discovered it’s a lot easier to be ruthless about what you do and don’t need to pack, when its not you that’s going. However I think she really did have everything she could possibly need and more… as for me, I think it looks like I will be heading to Kathmandu, Nepal, for a year at the end of October… it isn’t totally confirmed, but already thoughts of mountains and Maoists are exciting me…

This afternoon Hutchie and I are going to watch Ann of Green Gables video, courtesy of the Peck in Peru. It is all most exciting. Perhaps I shall blog about Ann of Green Gables next time… it would indeed be a thrill I am sure.

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