Thursday, June 29, 2006

...and so it begins.

I'm going on a little adventure in September. In keeping with tradition, it's a non-adventurous adventure, seldom deviating from towns and cities that have a Marks and Spencer food hall or a Pizza Hut. The purpose of the trip (or, to be more accurate, 3 trips) is attendance at a few of the dates on the forthcoming tour by my current favourite band. Financial constraints mean that I cannot attend all of them, and I am a little upset that I will have to miss one in particular due to the extra cost and logistics involved in coming home again (some 500 miles) for one day, so that I can pick up my car for another couple of days away in a totally different part of the country!

This morning, I booked a flight from Cardiff to Glasgow, the final leg of the journey. The flight cost "nothing", but the taxes, etc. brought the cost up to £15. In spite of wishing to minimise the cost of the entire two and a half weeks of fun and frolic, I can justify this apparent extravagance by telling myself that it would be better to be home by tea time on the Saturday, able to tidy up and make a start on the laundry, and wake up fresh on the Sunday ready for what the world will be preparing to throw at me, rather than staggering, bleary-eyed, from a restless overnight coach trip to the bus stop, travelling home and wasting the rest of the day asleep. I learned this painful lesson a few weeks ago after I returned from a weekend in Brighton. Proud though I was of paying not much more than £5 for a 970 mile round trip, I squandered a perfectly good day off and almost suffered a DVT.

Of course, it's all academic. I can't afford to pay for accomodation or for transport for any more of the connections at the moment. I have still to decide on one more gig and I hope that, by the time I have explored all the possible transport options, the small amount of tickets available will all have been sold, thus relieving me of the burden of travelling out of London, where I hope to remain for 4 nights. It's all still up in the air, as I hope to be in the middle of September.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Hello world!

Welcome to my new blog. I'll pop by every so often to let y'all know what's happening in my exciting life. What's that you say? You couldn't care less? That doesn't seem to stop anyone else, does it? I've had a quick look round the neighbourhood. I've seen blogs about music, blogs about travel, blogs about animals, blogs about illness, blogs whining about Bush (and why not?) and a large number of blogs in foreign languages. Everyone's doing it, from the young to the old, from the smart to the not-so-clever, and so on. I may as well join in (I'm somewhat entrenched in the "not-so-clever" camp).

Well, that's all for now. Y'all come back now, y'hear!

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