Following Clare's example, here's my planning for this year's Wave-Gotik-Treffen, consisting of ratings indicating whether I should try to see the band, and short descriptions so I can remember which one was which. See Clare's post for more useful links ( Read more... )

I'm still here, and this autumn I have been taking part in the 6th Annual Coffeeneuring Challenge. Here's where I went: ( places )

This year, for the first time, I went to the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig. Clare and David have been going for years, but this year they managed to persuade several friends to join them, and thus last Wednesday evening eight of use caught the daily direct train from Cambridge to Harwich International. Five trains, one ferry, and an unexpected ( Read more... )

[ Posted now because I'd like to write a post about WGT ( Read more... )

To get to my parents' house near Plymouth over Christmas, I would usually get the train. This year, I thought it might be entertaining to instead drive down in PEH 578L (pronounced "Phlebas"), my 42-year-old Land Rover Series III ( Read more... )

All my magic diary-posting scripts are broken, so I'm using LiveJournal's posting interface for what may be the first time. I could fix the scripts, but I've been playing with train timetables instead, which is what I'm here to write about.
On 25th March this year, the clocks in the UK go forward. This means that they jump straight from 01:00 to ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, I caught an early train out to Norwich in order to ride the first ( Read more... )

Every year, Stevenage and North Hertfordshire CTC organises a 100km ride on the ( Read more... )

There, I visited Flo-Ridaz (<http://www.flo-ridaz.co.uk>) to see what it was like to drive a Hovercraft, and took Owen and Ian along as well. The experience was an entertaining one, and while I'm still not entirely convinced of the practicality of a hovercraft, I do know that they're a lot of fun.

Hovercraft, having no wheels or keel, can only ( Read more... )

For the last few years, autumn new moons have seen me heading off to Hunstanton ( Read more... )