We made our target. Despite predictions otherwise, much stress and bother, and most of all a whole heap of self-doubt, every student who submitted a valid, on-time application form has some sort of funding (or will do when the postman next visits). Amazed that we learned how to do all this in a few months, certain there will be mistakes discovered, but really relieved and a little vindicated! Taken to pub at lunchtime by managers, which is nice. Parcelforce manage to avoid delivering books to me. Still no sign of DSL connection. Everyone who laughed about me insisting on buying shoes online should note that I just got a pair reduced by 75%. My feet are the one bit of me where things 'just fit' out of the box. I suppose I'm lucky.
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.