Danielle and I went to Kent for Small Worlds Festival: Summer Gathering. Bloody brilliant.

Michael, Dylan and I walked a section of the South Downs way this weekend. It runs from Winchester to Eastbourne and we decided to do a small section in West Sussex - Buriton to Amberley - about 25 miles in total...

For the last long weekend in May, Fiona and I decided to visit Nic for a weekend adventure through the yorkshire dales. Good thing we did, as not long after our visit, Nic was rolled off his project in Leeds and returned to London...

Zsuzsanna from my work asked me to her wedding in Ballintoy, Northern Ireland. I was so thrilled to be invited, I booked my cheap flight and off I went. Cushendun, where everyone stayed, was such a gorgeous little town about an hour from Belfast, not far from the Giant's Causeway, so I also go to tick that off my list of things to do, Yea!!!

Easter loomed and it was time not to be wasted. We wanted to go to the Lakes District but accomodation was hard to come by...so to mark off another destination from the 'list of things to do', it was decided Easter was to be spent in Cornwall looking for pirates...

It's time to say goodbye to more friends...was Jacqueline and Dan last week and now a farewell party for Teesh and Pete...all these good byes are starting to get a bit much.

Had a busy busy weekend....

Saturday - Went out for Brunch with Graham, Alanna and Lewis. Hadn't seen the old gra-meister for two years...we had a lovely catch up and breakfast at our little regular brunch spot 'Giraffe' at Kensington...

We went to Windsor to visit the Queen!!

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Now to the satire...

a quick background note as I understand it. Richard Neville - long-time satirist and social commentator - registered the domain name: johnhowardpm.org

Published on this website was a satirical speech 'given by' the PM to coalition supporters regarding decisions made about the Iraq War. Within 24 hours the site was blocked! The speech is still available from various other sites around the web and below is part of the postscript that was attached to one of the sites in order to explain the satirical nature of the speech and the weird response it has gotten...

After catching up with Alexis, Tim and Sandy in Oxford on Friday night, Camilla met me on Saturday and we spent a leisurley morning wandering around Oxford. I was on a mission to find some more gargoyles for Mole, so we set about doing that.