I’m writing this from an air bed on my sister’s living room floor. She celebrate’s her birthday on tuesday, but as i’ll be away i’ve been visiting with her this evening. This afternoon I bought her some treatment from her favourite salon for a gift.

Tonight we enjoyed a quiet evening at her house near Stockport. We had a couple of beers and some wine as well as pizzza. Tomorrow we visit our mother and relatives in Blackburn.

Counting down the hours until i set off on my adventure. Will keep you posted, even if it does mean blogging like this from my phone. Ttfn

This is the same company who discontinued: the EveryPhone call forwarding service, Orange Equity loyalty scheme, Wildfire voice activated answer phone service, Orange Answer personal assistant service, to name just a few. Swines. But the offer of a free Nokia 6630 and Talks, and 500 cross network minutes per month, well … what can you do?

The last couple of days have been pretty busy, and things are likely to get even busier from here on in. My to-do list now stretches on to 3 pages and there is absolutely no way that everything on that list is going to get completed before I go away. So I’m starting to prioritise and hope that I get through pretty much most of the important stuff.

Martin got away pretty early on Thursday, which was good, as it meant I was up and about and could get stuck into some work. Thursday evening I had a lovely home cooked meal with a couple of friends which ended up turning into a very late one indeed. And it was pretty much Friday Morning before I got home. I signed in to MSN, and immediately got bombarded with messages. This was nice, although, difficult to reply to absolutely everyone. I attempted to make some in-roads into the email backlog before spending a little time recuperating.

This weekend was my last chance to get away before I go away proper on the World Wide Williams Wonderings which start at the end of the month. On Saturday afternoon I found myself on a boat out in the sunshine and fresh air in the middle of Cardiff Bay heading out to the Barrage which is a dam which creates an artificial harbour around which Cardiff is undergoing significant redevelopment. Around 7PM We grabbed a burger at an American-style diner before showing up at the Cardiff Glee Club for a night of comedy which kicked off about 9PM. A couple of audio posts will follow which should fill-in the rest of Saturday.

Today felt very hot and sticky, and included the four and half hour trek north back to Preston. Thankfully no replacement bus services this weekend from crew. Although the Cardiff to New Port service was cancelled only to be reinstated a few minutes later.

So don’t expect much from me on here over the next couple of days as I try to do all those things which one needs to do just before going away. While at the same time try to keep up with work, juggle my personal life, get my flat into something approximating tidy, etc etc. The good news is it looks like the podcasting during my trip will happen. I have borrowed an iRiver H140 and a decent stereo microphone. I eventually got it all configured to a point where the audio is passable. So you can be the judge when I upload the audio of JW and I at Cardiff bay.

Runs for about 13 minutes. Contains drunken ramblings.

Now this is my kind of website! Reminds me of Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down which I also love.

Finally, Rob has got his own .co.uk. Currently showing his pics from his trip to Japan and Thailand.

On Wednesday evening Galloways Society for the Blind held their anual driving evening at Samlesbury

which is where BAE Systems construct the Eurofighter. I go mainly for the motorbikes, and the biker lads are spot on. I tried about half a dozen bikes with the Fireblade remaining my favourite. It’s good to get the adrenaline pumping, and purched pretty high up on this nippy little machine, blasting down the run way at speeds approaching 100mph with very little to cling on to, and the wind clawing at my jacket, definitely lets you know you’re alive!

Martin just returned from Ireland and we met for a couple in the Stanley before heading back to mine for something to eat and a couple of cans. A good night was had by all.