I'm setup in my home for the next 9 days. It's time to explore Ottawa! It's about 31 degrees at the moment and quite humid so I think I'll go for geek friendly shorts.

Well I'm currently sat in Gatwick looking forward to the fact that smoking indoors will be banned by the time I return to the country. It seems every bar/cafe allows smoking, even the "smoke free" areas have a large amount of bleed through from the smokers. It also seems …

Fliss was up for the weekend for Rocky Horror. I bowed to the inevitable (as well some practicalities) and gave Fliss her birthday present a week early. I'm pretty sure she likes her new Evoke-3 DAB Radio. It's quite a full featured radio which along with the very handy multi-alarm …

Not much to report on Maelstrom. Suffice it to say I had a good time. Someone commented that it's hard to get frustrated in your ambitions when your goals are being able to get to the bar. The weather was nice although a little stifling during the day, luckily I …

Last night I had Sheila and Lee around for a meal and catch up natter. For the food I tried a variant of a stir-fry recipe Fliss taught me. I was quite happy I've finally seem to have got the hang of making Egg Fried Rice without having it all …