Every year some plonker or other crawls out of the wood work and proclaims that “we’re going to have a wonderful summer” or some such. This year was no exception – “we’re going to have a wonderful June”. Well, it’s…
Author: John Curd
A Couple of Recipes
Send out geologists to explore the world and find oil fields. Erect expensive drilling rigs and send down a few test holes. If the field is viable, erect lots more rigs and start drilling in earnest. Ship the oil half-way…
Corfu Trail Album
The only bright side to the darn weather that we are currently suffering is that the rain and cold make it appealing to stay indoors for a couple of days processing digital photographs and building a web album. As a…
Memories from the Corfu Trail
Well, we’re back home, though neither of us is particularly happy about that given the weather to which we’ve returned. It seems that England had some good weather while we were away but it collapsed to give us our normal…
Almost Gone
This is probably a final post before resorting to mobile phone tweets on Twitter. Later today we’re off down to spend tonight in an airport hotel at Gatwick ready (?) to check in at about 4:00 AM tomorrow. Yuk! The…
Devon and Cornwall, 2009
After having to regress and re-install Jalbum for a reason that I still do not understand, I have finally managed to publish a web album summarizing our recent trip damper-than-we-would-like trip to Devon and Cornwall. You can find it at:…
Not so Stellar
I would be the first to admit that, for some unfathomable reason, the Brits cannot make lager properly. I don’t understand why one the world’s finest brewing nations (the Belgians beat us into second place, I’m afraid) can turn out…
Twitter @Home
Hopefully we will be bound for Corfu at some ungodly hour (5:55 AM take-off) on Friday morning. On Saturday 23rd May we should join the Explore! group in Corfu town to walk the Corfu Trail, a long distance (220 kms/140…
In Search of Sun
Our recently completed trip to Devon and Cornwall started with good weather and ended with good weather but the two weeks in between left a lot to be desired. We did manage to do a reasonable amount of walking up…
Reluctant Return
Today was our originally intended day to travel home. The day dawned sunny – sunnier than anything we had experienced since our first two days of the trip. We didn’t want to go home so we decided to ask the…
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