I've been really slack in updating over the last few weeks. This is largely due to the amount of things that have been going on. If you follow seraphs_folly you may have picked up on some of what has been going on.

Basically, of the last month or so, much of it has been away from home, and much of the "away" was with seraphs_folly. But I want to try and capture some of it ( Read more... )

I'm in the Manchester Airport Raddisson. Like most of the good hotels I've been in over here it's got free wi-fi. You can also get a cable connection if your laptop is so old it doesn't have wifi, but to do that you have to go sit in the lobby ( Read more... )

This weekend I visited M&C in Manchester ( Read more... )

I should have taken my camera! There were people getting married in the cathedral and having photos in the Peace Garden. There were morris dancers! There were punk morris dancers! There were hundreds of Breast Cancer Appeal collectors dressed as Smurfs! There was a peaceful and quiet demonstration in support of the Kurds against the Turks ( Read more... )

Somewhere over Australia I read yet another Australian-written aftermath scenario. Is it because of Australia's great deserts that the land generates so much armageddon fiction? Or is it that belief, perhaps first articulated in On The Beach, that Australia's remoteness and the hardiness of Australians both native and imported would mean they would ( Read more... )

Raffles Class Lounge, Singapore Changi, 29 Celsius at 10.08pm (it's around 2.00am Saturday morning in NZ, still Friday night here ) but free drinks and free net too so not complaining much. Got to chat to seraphs_folly and kittyfarmer, cool! Dealt with email and stuff. Flying out on next 14 hour leg to Manchester in about an hour. Will sleep then. All going good Arty ( Read more... )

Last night seraphs_folly took me along to something that pushed my boundaries.

We went to the that I mentioned yesterday behind the Lung Ta, the Gu-Chu-Sum Organization of Ex-Political Prisoners, where we helped a couple of Tibetan refugees, Lobsang and Twang(?), with their conversational English ( Read more... )

Yes, thats what I thought as well. Here I am in Mcleodganj, a tiny Indian Himalayan town and last night I ate okonomiyaki and drank miso in a Japanese vegetarian restaurant, with the wall behind me covered in manga. I looked at some Full Metal Alchemist whilst waiting for the meal.

( Go on, you know you want to )

..as Commander Oates said.

Work ends in just over two hours. Any further communication from me until the 17th of August, or thereabout, may involve WAR-driving with NetStumbler running. Or not The area may be connected better than Delhi for all I know.

Tonight seraphs_folly and I board an overnight train for Dalhoussie in Himachal Pradesh. We'll end up at ( Read more... )

So I got here in one piece.

Read Peter Hamilton's Misspent Youth on the light over, finished it in bed last night. Will comment more on that later ( Read more... )