Travelling first class in Germany is pretty good. We had a compartment to ourselves with some rather comfortably seats, a table and power socket. This meant we could enjoy a few DVDs without having to resort to shared headphones. The waiter service was pretty cool too. The difference in price …

The travel down was interesting. The Eurostar is fast, after a quick security screening and quick exchange of seats we were on. It gets up to 186mph and it didn't seem like long at all until we reached a mostly closed Brussels station. We had an hour to kill before …

It's official, we are in fact on holiday. In fact I've been "on holiday" since Thursday evening when I got home from work. The first task of the weekend was hiring a transit^* van and picking up table from Fliss' Mum's to replace the rather crappy white plastic one that …

We are up in Manchester tomorrow and early Saturday to do the final clear out of bits and pieces from the cellar. A bunch of stuff is going to the tip but if anyone wants any of the following then please contact me.

• Assorted random bits of computer stuff (ex-Glyn …

Yesterday was the last night of the 2008 Cambridge Folk Festival. We left in the early evening not long after Mufi and TJ headed back to Manchester as we were quite Folked Out after 4 days of festival. However a good time had been had by all and we saw …