I am happily installed in Frankfurt for the weekend with Jessie. Lee will be arriving later today before we start the full festivities to celebrate her Birthday. I have been told to look out for steroetypes tonight. I have also commited some funds to thesubculture. Lee told me it would …

It takes approximately one hour to walk from Ste's house in Eccles to mine.

The Wednesday Meal^tm tonight was only slightly marred by my tardiness in getting to Ste's via public transport. This was partly the Metro's 24 minute delay and partly due to me and Rich visiting Sinclairs …

My social calender for the start of this week has been filled in with lunches and drinks with various lovely ladies. Lee has cautioned me against smugness although I myself feel pleasantly surprised at the sequence of events.

Maelstrom was very good. The fact I didn't actually use any of …

I played using a new badminton scoring system last night and today with Lucy. Essentially someone scores a point on each serve. To compensate for the speed of point accumulation the match winning score has been upped to 21 instead of the old 15. I quite like it as you …

This weekend I learnt two important drinking lessons. The first is it is in fact possible to drink too many Strawberry Daiquiris^*. The second is the supermarkets are now stocking quite a nice range of decent lagers.

Friday's plan of after work gym was scuppered by the general attraction of …